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Restricted public access to rape trials and the provision of publicly-funded legal advice to complainants are among the final recommendations of the judge-led review into serious sexual offence trials.
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Students and school pupils attended the Faculty of Advocates' Open Day this week. They are pictured above listening to opening remarks from Clerk of Faculty, Richard Pugh.
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A team of law students moot travelled to Eötvös Loránd University in Hungary last month to participate in a warm up for an international moot competition.
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The frontrunner for next president of the European Commission has called for financial penalties for EU member states which fail to protect the rule of law. German politician Manfred Weber is the Spitzenkandidat (lead candidate) of the European People's Party (EPP), currently projected to be th
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English and Welsh solicitors are continuing to join the Irish roll of solicitors in significant numbers nearly three years on from the Brexit vote, new figures reveal. A total of 2,772 solicitors from England and Wales have been admitted to the Irish roll, according to the latest Law Society of Irel
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The Law Society of Scotland has called on the Scottish government to pursue "a package of wider reform" following a three per cent increase in legal aid fees. All solicitors and advocates who provide people with advice and representation through the legal aid scheme in Scotland received a three per
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At least two women are expected to bring a legal challenge against new "digital consent forms" being used by police in England and Wales to access the personal data of rape complainants. The measures were introduced by police and prosecutors in response to disclosure failings which led to a number o
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All solicitors and advocates who provide people with advice and representation through the legal aid scheme in Scotland will receive a three per cent increase in fees from today. The increase was announced last November as part of the Scottish government’s wider response to Martyn Evans’
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Nicola Hogg, a solicitor accredited in child law by the Law Society of Scotland, sets out the detail of the new advance payment scheme for victims of historical child abuse. The Scottish Government announced details of its Advanced Scheme to compensate victims of abuse in care before December 2004,
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The five political parties in the Scottish Parliament have all agreed to adopt a formal definition of Islamophobia in a bid to tackle prejudice. The move follows meetings yesterday with members of Holyrood’s Cross-Party Group on Tackling Islamophobia and Westminster’s All Party Parliamen
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The Scottish government has confirmed it will bring forward legislation to provide for a second referendum on Scottish independence. The framework bill will set out the rules of principles for any referendum and will allow for the government to proceed to a vote on independence following the transfe
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Police forces in England and Wales will be required to offer free sanitary products to female detainees under new plans announced by the Home Office today. The changes will also require police forces to make arrangements for all detainees to speak in private to a member of custody staff of the same
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Nearly 2,000 prosecution barristers in England and Wales have said they are open to taking action – including refusing to take on new work – in a dispute over remuneration and workload. The Criminal Bar Association (CBA) revealed that 95 per cent of the over 2,000 prosecution barristers
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