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Legal challenge over the word ‘woman’ concludes at Court of Session The inquiry looked at if the word ‘woman’ was being fundamentally changed (Jane Barlow/PA) A challenge over the legal competence of a new gender representation act has concluded at the Court of Session in Edinburgh. Campaigners For Women Scotland (FWS) raised concerns over the definition of the word “women” in the Gender Representation on Public Boards Act 2018, saying that the use of the term was an attempt to over...

A KEY legal hearing is to go forward via video conferencing tomorrow as campaigners challenge the Scottish Government over the meaning of…

  Herald on Sunday Letters: Why have the oil industry and the North Sea been disappeared from the Scottish Governments Climate Change Plan? Why have the oil industry and the North Sea been disappeared from the Scottish Governments Climate Change Plan? SCOTTISH Climate Change Secretary Roseanna Cunningham, has been giving her opinion on the Government’s updated Climate Change Plan. But nowhere in her Herald on Sunday article ("‘COP26 is a chance for us all to play our part in debate’", ...

IT was striking to note the restrictions between Scotland and England over the festive season, and to highlight that it was almost 70 years ago to the day that the Border between the two nations was closed for the first time in 400 years. That of course was due to the return of the Stone of Destiny to Scotland, after four student nationalists removed the ancient artefact from Westminster Abbey on Christmas Day in 1950. The incident happened nearly seven centuries after the stone was taken...

Reporting on a military rape case in Myanmar and a public execution in North Korea A Myanmar military tribunal Friday sentenced three privates to 20 years for raping an ethnic Rakhine grandmother during army operations in her village in war-torn Rakhine state in June, the lawyer for the victim told RFA. The two-year-long war between government forces and the rebel Arakan Army (AA), which is seeking greater autonomy in Rakhine, has killed more than 300 civilians and displaced abo...