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New guidance has been issued which aims to ensure that moving home in Scotland can happen safely during the coronavirus outbreak. Having announced on June 18 that restrictions on housing moves will be relaxed from June 29, the Scottish government has now published more detailed guidance on how
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Criminal barrister Joanna Hardy shares her experience of remote courts in England. “I haven’t met the defendant, Your Honour,” I tell a screen in my kitchen. Silence. “Can… can you hear me?” My words echo through the judge’s laptop in a courtroom three mile
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Three years after a defamation action was brought against him, Scottish Greens MSP Andy Wightman has been vindicated by a judge in the Court of Session. Lord Clark in the Outer House found, among other things, that the allegedly defamatory statements of Mr Wightman lacked the meaning the "ordinary r
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Frank Doran Former Dundee solicitor and Labour MP for Aberdeen Frank Doran has passed away at the age of 68.
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Westwater Advocates’ Calum MacNeill QC has succeeded in the Inner House, where he represented multiple claimants backed by the GMB Union in a challenge to the “pay protection” arrangements introduced by Glasgow City Council on the introduction of its Workplace Pay and Benefits Review (WPBR) in
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Lord Neuberger At the Royal Faculty of Procurators in Glasgow last week, President of the Supreme Court, Lord Neuberger, reflected on constitutional changes across the UK over the last twenty years, and the role of the UK Supreme Court in relation to devolution cases in particular.
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