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FORMER Catalan education minister Clara Ponsati was issued with a fresh European arrest warrant today, over her role in 2017’s Catalan independence referendum.
Ms Ponsati, a former professor at St Andrews University, is facing a single charge of sedition related to her involvement in the referendum, held in the autonomous region of Catalonia and later declared illegal by Spanish authorities.
She denies the charge.
NORMA AUSTIN HART reports from a conference on on the rights of women prisoners in the Scottish criminal justice system
Former judge ANSELM ELDERGILL examines the details and controversy of Lucy Letby’s trial and appeal in the context of famous historical wrongful convictions that prove both the justice system and legal activists make errors
ANSELM ELDERGILL examines the government’s proposals to further limit the right of citizens to trial by jury
