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Solicitor General Ruth Charteris QC has apologised for the delays in the investigation into the suicide in custody of Katie Allan, her family have said. Ms Charteris met the family of Ms Allan in Glasgow yesterday.
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The Financial Reporting Council (FRC) has fined KPMG £13 million for its audits of Silentnight from August 2010 to April 2011. The accountancy regulator announced sanctions against the firm and David Costley-Wood, former partner and head of KPMG Manchester Restructuring.
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Scotland introduced a new private sector residential letting vehicle, known as the private residential tenancy (PRT), when the Private Housing (Tenancies) (Scotland) Act 2016 came into force in December 2017. As part of that regime, a legal device was made available to those who had rented a propert
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Sarah Gilzean considers how Long Covid fits into the existing equality framework. This time last year, just as we were coming to terms with life in a pandemic, another concerning illness was beginning to rear its head: Long Covid.
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It was a crime that shocked early 20th century society and attracted international coverage – the apparently motiveless killing of an elderly spinster in her home. Now University of Dundee researchers are to explore one of Scotland’s oldest unsolved murders to demonstrate the vital role
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A sheriff in Edinburgh Sheriff Court has found that the mother of an eight-year-old child acted in contempt of court in wilfully refusing to comply with a contact order awarded to the child’s father. The pursuer and minuter, B, argued that the defender, A, had along with he
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A new fund worth £6.7 million to support legal aid firms has opened for applications. The Legal Aid Business Support and Recovery Fund has been established following consultation with the legal profession and will be distributed to legal aid practices.
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The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has reported a 20 per cent drop in personal data breach reports, from 11,854 in the 2019/20 financial year, down to 9,532 in the most recent financial year. These figures were published in the ICO’s annual report and analysed by the Parliament S
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Further investigations should take place to assess whether lawyers involved in a recent Post Office case in the High Court may have committed professional misconduct in their handling of that case, researchers have said. The Post Office has been robustly criticised for the handling of criminal and c
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Organisations across Scotland will share £21 million funding over three years to "advance human rights, promote equality and tackle discrimination". A total of 48 organisations – including five human rights organisations – will benefit from the Scottish government's new equality an
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A new residential rehabilitation facility to support families affected by drug use is to be developed in North Ayrshire. Funding for the National Specialist Residential Family Service which will be run by the charity and housing association Phoenix Futures and based in Saltcoats, North Ayrshire, has
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Glasgow Caledonian University has secured funding from the Clark Foundation for Legal Education for a new undergraduate prize.
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It’s a case of like father, like son, for Aberdeen property lawyer Alex Hutcheon, senior partner and owner of Alex Hutcheon + Co and The Mortgage + Property Centre, and his son Adrian.
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The Counter-Decentralization, like the Counter-Reformation, is the ongoing attempt by centralized states to put the technological toothpaste back in the tube.
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