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Thursday, 10 May 2018 from 6pm at SSC Members’ Lounge, Edinburgh As we continue into a new era of technological advancement, with clients increasingly demanding tangible results for the money they are paying their lawyers, an ability to effectively and efficiently work with and lead a team of prof

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Roddy Dunlop QC The Faculty of Advocates has responded to criticism by the Society of Solicitor Advocates (SSA) in relation to the Faculty’s submission to the Independent Review of the Regulation of Legal Services in Scotland (the Roberton Review).

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Michael Russell The UK government’s amendments to the EU Withdrawal Bill make it “crystal clear in terms never seen before that the Scottish Parliament can be over-ridden by the UK government”, if the Parliament decides not to give consent to an order constraining its powers, Brexit minister M

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A solicitor advocates group has criticised a Faculty of Advocates response to a review of legal services, saying it “demonstrates a fundamental misunderstanding of the relevant rules which apply to solicitors and the additional rules which apply to solicitor advocates”; that the Faculty’s prop

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MSPs have granted final approval to the Social Security (Scotland) Bill which will pave the way for the Scottish government to make the first social security payments later this year. A stage 3 debate in the Scottish Parliament yesterday was followed by a unanimous vote in favour of establishing Sco

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Eric Robertson Advocate Eric Robertson recalls some powerful perspectives on targeted law enforcement presented at this year’s human trafficking seminar in the Faculty of Advocates.

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Pictured from back left: Lynne Hopkins, Pamela Stuart, Graham Lambert, Murray Etherington, Stuart Mackie, Lisa Hainey, Lorna Goodfellow, Anne McKeown, Graeme Dickson, Audrey Dishington. From front left: Claire Heaton (Radio Tay Cash for Kids Charity Manager), Nick Barclay and Emma Kemp (Radio Forth

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Her Majesty The Queen has approved the appointment of Sir Andrew McFarlane as president of the Family Division. He will take up the presidency after Sir James Munby retires in July this year. Sir Andrew was called to the bar in 1977 and took silk in 1998. He was appointed a Recorder in 1995, a Deput

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