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Assistant inspector of constabulary in Scotland Gillian Imery QPM is to be appointed HM Chief Inspector of Constabulary in Scotland. As chief inspector of constabulary, Mrs Imery will lead HM Inspectorate of Constabulary Scotland (HMICS) to deliver an annual programme of independent inspection, moni

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The latest publication of the monthly UK House Price Index shows that the average price of a property in Scotland in January 2018 was £148,512 – an increase of 7.3 per cent on January in the previous year and an increase of 1.4 per cent when compared to the previous month. T his compares to a UK

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Research from the University of Loughborough, commissioned by the Law Society of England and Wales, has found that the legal aid means test is preventing families in poverty from accessing justice. The research shows that people on incomes already 10 per cent to 30 per cent below the minimum income

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J Gordon Reid QC FCIArb, a former Temporary Judge of the Court of Session and convener of the Faculty Dispute Resolution Service has passed away at the age of 65. Mr Reid was a solicitor for four years before becoming a member of Faculty in 1980. He took silk in 1993. He ceased practising last year.

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Forestry in Scotland will be fully devolved to the Scottish Parliament after MSPs backed the Forestry and Land Management (Scotland) Bill. Rural Economy Secretary Fergus Ewing said the bill’s modern approach to forestry development, support and regulation will enable the Scottish government to bet

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Law students at Aberdeen University last night launched volume 8 of the Aberdeen Student Law Review, sponsored by Stronachs LLP and Dentons.Editors-in-chief Ezgi Ediboğlu and Kieran Buxton discussed the road to publication while some of the contributors discussed their articles.

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The Law Society of Scotland has called on the Scottish Legal Complaints Commission to embrace major changes to the way it administers legal complaints in a bid to avoid an above inflation hike in costs. The SLCC has proposed a 5.2 per cent rise in its draft budget for 2018/19. A proposed rise of up

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The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has dismissed, by a 6-1 majority, a request to revise its 1978 ruling that fourteen men interned in Northern Ireland in the 1970s were subjected to inhuman and degrading treatment, but not torture. Ireland sought the revision in 2014 after an RTÉ programme

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The Philippines has given official notification to the United Nations of its intention to withdraw from the International Criminal Court (ICC). It comes a month after the ICC announced it was opening a preliminary examination into allegations that thousands of extra-judicial killings have taken plac

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