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The legal smoking age would rise from 18 to 21 under new proposals being considered by the Scottish government, The Herald reports. The government will host a conference this year to discuss the increase as part of its aim to create a ‘tobacco-free generation’ by 2034.

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A Holyrood committee is seeking views on the operation of Scotland's freedom of information legislation. The Scottish Parliament’s Public Audit and Post-legislative Scrutiny Committee (PAPLS) is undertaking post-legislative scrutiny of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 .

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Greenock solicitors are to have their first female dean of the town’s faculty of procurators. Jill Carrick was appointed dean of the Faculty of Procurators in Greenock, the first woman to take up the post in the organisation’s 200-year history, at the faculty’s annual general meeti

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The Scottish Legal Complaints Commission (SLCC) has been selected as one of five case studies of good practice published last week by the Ethical Standards Commissioner. The SLCC was recognised for using facilitated diversity enhancing workshops and tools to improve decision making as well as for co

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Local authorities would be banned from banning plastic straws for the next five years under a bill proposed by a Florida senator. The law would see the US state slap local authorities with a $25,000 fine if they try to regulate single-use plastics before the completion of a study into the environmen

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Research carried out as part of BDO LLP’s annual FraudTrack report shows that Scotland ranked as the fourth most defrauded region in the UK by value as fraud rose by 88 per cent from £16.2m in 2017 to £30.4m in 2018. Accountants and business advisers BDO discovered that while the n

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Tributes have been paid to Dundee solicitor Malcolm Farquhar who has passed away at the age of 63, the Evening Telegraph reports. Mr Farquhar joined Thorntons in 2005 following the firm's merger with Scott & Soutar.

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