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Alex Neil Women who have suffered violence and abuse will benefit from a funding boost of £570,000 to help build stronger and more resilient women’s support groups across Scotland, Social Justice Secretary Alex Neil announced today.
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Michael Gove The Law Society of England and Wales has welcomed the Ministry of Justice's (MoJ) decision to abandon plans for the two-tier criminal legal aid contracting regime. Legal aid fee cuts for criminal defence lawyers are to be dropped and the old rates restored following the government's U-t
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Lord Drummond Young The Inner House of the Court of Session has rejected a law firm's bid to avoid contributing more than £50,000 to the Scottish Solicitors’ Staff Pension Fund £10 million deficit.
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Jennifer Cummings Murray Beith Murray has announced the appointment of Jennifer Cummings as associate within the Edinburgh-based private client firm. The promotion takes effect from 1 February 2016.
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Neil Amner Glasgow Chamber of Commerce has installed Neil Amner as its new president for a two-year term.
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Aileen McLeod Land reform minister Aileen McLeod will inform the Scottish Parliament’s Rural Affairs, Climate Change and Environment Committee today that she intends to refer the issue of common land to the new Scottish Land Commission, when established, and invite them to conduct a review as part
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Keith Anderson The number of Scottish firms undergoing business insolvency in the whole of 2015 was down 7.6 per cent during 2015 according to analysis of the latest figures by restructuring, recovery and insolvency boutique mlm Solutions.
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Rosie Walker Now that we have had time to reflect on the Election Court’s decision in Timothy Denis Morrison & Others v Carmichael & Another EC 90, what can we say about its wider implications? Well, quite a lot actually according to Rosie Walker, who acted for Alistair Carmichael.
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Clare Butler Partners in law firms are spending over six and a half weeks more in the office compared to two years ago as they compete for business with accountancy firms according to research by a legal recruiter.
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(L-R): Howard Beach, Donna Strong and Andrew McCowan Glasgow-based commercial law firm Leslie Wolfson has announced the promotion of a partner within the firm, along with a new lateral associate hire, as part of its ongoing expansion programme.
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Roseanna Cunningham The Scottish government will “leave no stone unturned” in its attempt to block the UK government’s Trade Union Bill being applied in Scotland and said only devolving full powers over industrial relations will see an end to the "draconian" measures proposed in the bill.
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Brandon Malone The Scottish Arbitration Centre’s chairman, Brandon Malone, has been invited to speak at the 27th European Energy Law Seminar which will take place on 25-26 January in The Hague, the Netherlands.
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John Campbell QC A QC and solicitor advocate have claimed consumers in Scotland have been let down by a failure to modernise the legal profession nine years after the then Office of Fair Trading backed a “supercomplaint” by consumer watchdog Which?.
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Alison McInnes MSP Following the news the Home Secretary Theresa May said the UK government is “not minded” to extend a judge-led inquiry into undercover police officers' activity north of the border, politicians have called on Justice Secretary Michael Matheson to establish a Scottish inquiry.
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