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The Law Society of Scotland has called on the Scottish Legal Complaints Commission to embrace major changes to the way it administers legal complaints in a bid to avoid an above inflation hike in costs. The SLCC has proposed a 5.2 per cent rise in its draft budget for 2018/19. A proposed rise of up

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The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has dismissed, by a 6-1 majority, a request to revise its 1978 ruling that fourteen men interned in Northern Ireland in the 1970s were subjected to inhuman and degrading treatment, but not torture. Ireland sought the revision in 2014 after an RTÉ programme

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The Philippines has given official notification to the United Nations of its intention to withdraw from the International Criminal Court (ICC). It comes a month after the ICC announced it was opening a preliminary examination into allegations that thousands of extra-judicial killings have taken plac

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Frank McMorrow Frank McMorrow (pictured) has been appointed as a non-executive adviser to the board of BBM Solicitors, the boutique law practice based in Edinburgh and Wick.

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Caroline Kelly A personal injury expert has backed suggestions for new laws to protect cyclists following reports that the Department for Transport is reviewing proposals for new road rules to introduce a minimum distance for cars when overtaking cyclists.

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Eric McQueen The Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service (SCTS) is submitting plans to Fife Council to build a two-court complex to hear sheriff and jury cases and custodies in Kirkcaldy.

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