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This year’s SLN Annual Review highlights the concern among defence solicitors and sheriffs over the lack of flexibility afforded to police and fiscals in the prosecution of alleged domestic abuse cases.
Legal researcher Roishe Milne interviewed sheriffs and solicitors unearthing real concern that the prosecution of trifling cases is devaluing domestic abuse legislation.
There is scarcely a defence lawyer in Scotland who could not provide a ridiculous example of something petty coming to court and Ms Milne highlights an issue that has yet to make it into the press.
Also in the criminal section the lord advocate Frank Mulholland QC calls for a review of contempt of court legislation in the digital age and particularly since the abolition of double jeopardy rules.
Advocate Niall McCluskey addresses another area of growing concern and calls for more effective accountability in the running of Police Scotland, the newly unified force that is mired in controversy.
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