The recovery must be focused on victims to prevent disengagement, writes Martyn McLaughlin ...

From the impact on victims to interviews with high-profile criminal justice figures, The Scotsman’s series is looking at the ...

Scotsman Investigations Correspondent Martyn McLaughlin has this week been looking at the state of the Scottish Justice system ...

A patient has been left to languish in a hospital bed despite being medically fit to go home for more than SEVEN YEARS, The Mail on Sunday can reveal.

A teenager has admitted repeatedly stabbing a man who called him "Harry Potter" during an early morning argument at a bus ...

The independent review says successive governments made "knee jerk" decisions to issue longer prison sentences.

Thousands of criminal cases in Scotland have been abandoned over the past five years due to statutory time-bar limits and delays by police and reporting agencies, The Scotsman reports. The Crown ...

Efforts to reduce severe delays in Scotland’s criminal justice system have been “too slow,” legal experts have warned, with victims of serious crimes waiting more than three years for verdicts. At the ...

Scotland’s drug driving epidemic is leaving toxicology labs snowed under, forcing police chiefs to effectively ration roadside testing. The Scottish Police Authority (SPA) provides Forensic Services ...

POLICE have been accused of dragging their heels over the scandal of a Kirk minister who helped defraud more than £1 million ...

The Herald has outlined the myriad challenges facing the criminal and civil legal aid system: from a shortage of solicitors, to lengthy delays ...

“Victims of human rights abuses around the world turn to the International Criminal Court when they have nowhere else to go, and President Trump’s executive order will make it harder for them to find ...