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Former Lord Advocate Dame Elish Angiolini QC is to review the processes for handling complaints against the police and investigating serious incidents and alleged misconduct. The independent review, jointly commissioned by Justice Secretary Michael Matheson and Lord Advocate James Wolffe QC, will as

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Anderson Strathern has secured a series of client appointments during the first half of 2018, helping to increase year-on-year revenue at the firm. Revenue is up by eight per cent in the six months to 28th February 2018.

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The Scottish Parliament has approved in principle a bill that aims to give local authorities and communities the opportunity to directly manage Scottish Crown Estate assets. The Scottish Crown Estate Bill will establish a framework for changes in the management of these assets to "deliver wider bene

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An 84-year-old woman says she will be “forever grateful” to the Faculty of Advocates’ pro bono unit and a volunteer QC who helped her win a court case over damage to her tenement home. The ceiling in the woman’s living room partially collapsed and cracks appeared in other cei

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Glasgow solicitor Sarah Haig has been named as the Law Society of Scotland’s In-house Rising Star 2018. Working as part of Glasgow City Council's Legal Services team, she has acquired a high level of knowledge in the field of information law and played an integral role in implementing GDPR not

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Pictured above on Aberdeen University's graduation day yesterday are Finn O'Neill, Emma Wills, Martin Ewan (senior vice-president of the @SocOfAdvocates) and Sophie Hofford. The student trio won prizes sponsored by the Society of Advocates in Aberdeen for their dissertations.

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A teenager has been sent to jail after she named two girls on Facebook who had been sexually abused by her brother. Sophie Turner, 19, posted the victims' names on the Liverpool Echo's page after her brother, Jamie Turner, 26 and his friend, Myles Bell, 23 were found guilty of child sexual

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The Scottish courts are to be given powers to impose periodical payment orders. Alteration to the method of fixing the discount rate, the impending legislative requirement to obtain actuarial advice and the perennial uncertainty of life expectancy all point to the need for both parties to consider w

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Recreational use of marijuana has been legalised in Canada. The Canadian Parliament in Ottawa passed the Cannabis Act yesterday, with the Senate voting 59-20 in favour.

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A European Union committee will vote tomorrow on controversial copyright proposals ahead of a vote in the Parliament next month. The Committee on Legal Affairs will vote on the report on copyright in the digital single market, which details legislation intended to protect rights holders.

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Holyrood’s Environment, Climate Change and Land Reform Committee today approved legislation that bans the use of plastic microbeads in personal care products in Scotland. Microbeads, which can be found in face scrubs, toothpastes and shower gels, can pass through sewage systems and reach seas

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