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Rebecca Barrass

Lord McFall of Alcluith The House of Lords Liaison Committee has launched a review of House of Lords investigative and scrutiny committees.

The Law Society of Scotland has expressed concern at proposals for an above-inflation increase in the Scottish legal complaints budget for the second consecutive year. The Scottish Legal Complaints Commission has proposed a 5.2 per cent rise in its draft budget for 2018/19 which must be paid for by

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Murray McCall Anderson Strathern has been appointed to all six lots of the Legal Services Framework for the Advanced Procurement for Universities and Colleges (APUC) which was established to ensure good value and high quality services for education institutions in Scotland.

g such an attack. In these circumstances, the sheriff was entitled to take the view that there was no evidence from which it could be inferred that the appellant might have been acting in self-defence.” In relation to the sentence imposed it was argued that although a custodial sentence was approp

A majority of Holyrood's Justice Committee has backed James Kelly MSP’s bill repealing the Offensive Behaviour at Football and Threatening Communications Act. While strongly condemning sectarian behaviour, the majority of the committee found that the original act was flawed, and other existing law

Neil Stevenson As part of its annual budget consultation, the Scottish Legal Complaints Commission (SLCC) - Scotland’s independent body for complaints about lawyers - has called on members of the public, and legal professionals, to join the discussion about who should pay for the increasing cost o

Ireland's top judge has said judicial training in Scotland is "much more sophisticated" than that offered to the Irish judiciary. The Chief Justice of Ireland, Mr Justice Frank Clarke, told a seminar at NUI Galway that it was "a source of some embarrassment" to him that some Irish judges had to go t

A woman is suing a man acquitted of her rape for £100,000 in damages, The Guardian reports. Stephen Coxen, 23, from Lancashire, who was accused of raping the former St Andrews University student in September 2013, was acquitted at the High Court of Justiciary in 2015.

Organisms obtained by mutagenesis are, in principle, exempted from the obligations in the Genetically Modified Organisms Directive, according to Advocate General Bobek. Member states are free to adopt measures regulating such organisms provided they respect overarching principles of EU law.

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Professor Alan Miller The new Advisory Group on Human Rights Leadership has been urged by First Minister Nicola Sturgeon to challenge public bodies to do more to promote human rights.

MSPs representing three Holyrood committees will attend House of Lords talks today on the EU (Withdrawal) Bill and Brexit. The MSPs will set out significant cross-party concerns over clause 11 of the bill and what they regard as a lack of progress from the UK government on amending the bill during i

The European Court of Human Rights is launching a series of five new factsheets. The factsheets concern case law on the themes of access to the Internet and the freedom to receive and impart information; deprivation of citizenship; legal professional privilege; and accompanied and unaccompanied migr