Scotland’s controversial new hate speech law went into effect Monday despite fierce backlash from critics. "Scotland continues to infringe upon the right of her citizens to speak freely. This bill ...

The lord advocate leads the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service and also acts as chief legal adviser to the Scottish ...

It’s happening again. As the dust settled on the general election, Scotland’s first minister Nicola Sturgeon announced that Boris Johnson has “no right” to prevent another Scottish independence ...

The BBC issued a correction reporting that suggested J.K. Rowling’s remarks about transgender women could get her in trouble with Scotland's new hate crime law. BBC Scotland reported that the Hate ...

The British government on Monday blocked a Scottish law that would have made it easier for people to change their gender for legal purposes. The Scottish law would allow people to transition by ...

The Scottish and UK governments are heading to court over a plan to change the law in Scotland to make it easier for people to change their legal gender. We asked a legal expert to explain what the ...

A highly controversial law is set to into force on Monday, April 1, in Scotland: the Hate Crime and Public Order Act. Proposed in 2020 by the government led by Nicola Sturgeon (then leader of the ...

Proposed legislation at Westminster would mean Lord Advocate could not head the Scottish prosecution service and be a minister at Holyrood Simon Johnson is The Telegraph's Scottish Political Editor.

Scotland’s new hate crime law goes into effect today. Most of what the Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Act 2021 includes isn’t new, however. For the most part, it bundles together other hate ...

A 74-year-old woman has become the first person to be arrested and charged under a Scottish law banning protests outside abortion clinics. She was arrested close to the Queen Elizabeth University ...