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The Scottish Human Rights Commission is developing its Strategic Plan for 2016-2020. To help it set out its priorities and improve how it works, it would like to hear from people and organisations from across Scotland’s communities.

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The Law Society of Scotland RFC are participating in the Law Rugby World Cup 2015 hosted by the Law Society RFC at Richmond Athletic Ground between 14 and 16 October 2015.

Julie Brown Lawyer Julie Brown has been appointed vice president of the Scottish Food Trade Association (SFTA) just months after joining the association's executive committee.

Roseanna Cunningham To protect Scotland's relationship with unions, it should be excluded from the entire Trade Union Bill according to the Scottish government.

Lord Carloway A new sentencing council for Scotland is officially established today.

The Scottish government and the Crown Office have expressed disappointment with the Air Accidents Investigation Branch's report on the Clutha helicopter crash after it was officially released today, with the Crown now making plans to conduct a fatal accident inquiry (FAI) into the disaster. Commenti

Sheriff Alistair Duff An innovative virtual learning and online communications platform for judicial office holders in Scotland has been named as the winner of the prestigious 2015 “Crystal Scales of Justice Prize”.

Addi Shamash The number of Scottish firms failing in the third quarter of 2015 fell by 8.6 per cent to 180 from 197 according to analysis of the latest figures by Morisons LLP.

Andrew Mackenzie, chief executive of the Scottish Arbitration Centre The Scottish Arbitration Centre has hosted an international energy arbitration conference at its premises in Edinburgh.

Justice Secretary Michael Matheson Prison officers in Scotland will now be allowed to organise strike action after Justice Secretary Michael Matheson announced the rule prohibiting it will be abolished.

Lord Hodge A Scottish justice of the Supreme Court has described quotas as “corrosive”.

Andrew Mackenzie Andrew Mackenzie, chief executive of the Scottish Arbitration Centre and secretary general of the International Centre for Energy Arbitration(ICEA); the joint energy arbitration project of the centre and CEPMLP at the University of Dundee, has delivered a presentation on a dispute r

Pupils from schools across Scotland are getting ready to debate the pros and cons of the internet in the opening rounds of the Law Society of Scotland’s annual debating tournament. The Donald Dewar Memorial Debating Tournament will see 128 teams from 102 Scottish schools put their powers of persua