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Scotland 2025 and Orwell’s Warning: The Erosion of Fair Trial Rights
Read Animal Farm and 1984 again, and you start to notice something unsettling. Not because Scotland is a totalitarian state, it isn’t. It’s because Orwell understood how a…
Victims, Witnesses & Justice Reform Act 2025: Key Changes (Scotland)
Foreword: This article examines the recent Sexual Offences Review report and its implications for the Scottish legal system. Many of the review’s recommendations have since been taken forward through…
A Jury Cannot Judge What It Is Forbidden to See
When relevant context is withheld from juries, trials stop looking like a search for truth and start looking like managed outcomes. Scotland is sliding toward a justice system…
Trial by Media Scotland: The Press Decides the Villain
There’s a mood that settles over Glasgow when a sexual allegation makes the news. You see it in the quick glance at the headline boards on London Road…
When Pressure, Memory, and Policing Collide: How Ordinary Relationship Moments Become Criminal Allegations After a Breakup
How Ordinary Relationship Moments Become Criminal Allegations After a Breakup Accused.Scot — December 2025 If you’ve ever been in a long relationship, you’ll know how uneven real life…
Abertay Didn’t Defend Academic Freedom — It Walked Away From It
Abertay University’s reaction to the JIMS talk has created a row that didn’t need to exist. It didn’t come from extremism, illegality, or anything remotely dangerous. It began…
Thomas Ross KC and Angela Gray KC on the Supreme Court Ruling That Changes Everything
By Accused.Scot 14 November 2025 Last night, in a packed Glasgow hall, two of Scotland’s sharpest legal minds – Thomas Ross KC and Angela Gray KC – dissected…
Supreme Court Orders Scotland to Change How 274 and 275 Are Applied
A landmark judgment today from the UK Supreme Court has corrected a flawed common law approach and clarified how Scottish courts must handle sexual-offence trials... Scotland’s “rape shield”…
When Graffiti Replaces Argument: Scotland’s Struggle With Free Inquiry
In any healthy society, a lecture hall should be a place of light, a space where questions are asked without fear and ideas are tested by reason, not…
When Research Becomes Heresy: The Paradox of Dr Stuart Waiton and JIMS
How Scotland’s culture of outrage now punishes those who defend fairness Dr Stuart Waiton’s paper The Empathy Trap is not an act of provocation. It is an act of…
When Outrage Replaces Inquiry: The Abertay Episode and Scotland’s Fear of Free Thought
The firestorm begins Abertay University became the latest battlefield in Scotland’s crisis of critical thought when a criminology class invited a speaker from Justice for Innocent Men Scotland…
“Equally Safe” – Or Ideologically Captive? A Response to the Scottish Government’s 2024–2026 Delivery Plan
A Response to the Scottish Government’s 2024–2026 Delivery Plan ♦ A Nation That No Longer Speaks for Half Its People The Scottish Government’s new Equally Safe Delivery Plan…