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A charity which runs a school mooting competition is looking for lawyers from across Scotland to tutor pupils. This year’s School Mock Court Project competition has started in some regions already but is still looking for tutors. The charity runs two separate competitions each year, one for primar

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Fraser Oliver Digby Brown Solicitors has passed another landmark with the firm receiving its 1000th review on independent consumer review website Trustpilot.

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The Scottish Ethnic Minorities Lawyers' Association (SEMLA) started opening the doors to the profession for its members last night as the group's first networking event took place at the Glasgow offices of Harper Macleod.

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Clan Childlaw has called for the revised Named Person proposals to be scrapped, The Herald reports. The charity said in a response to Holyrood’s Education and Skills Committee, which is currently scrutinising the proposals, that the legislation will only make the system more complicated.

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John Finnie MSP, justice spokesperson for the Scottish Greens (pictured), has today welcomed the support for his proposed member’s bill to give children equal protection from assault. A three-month public consultation on removing the defence of “justifiable assault” of children from Scots law,

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Aamer Anwar The Law Society of Scotland has joined the widespread show of support for human rights solicitor Aamer Anwar, following a series of abusive messages in response to his eye witness account of last week’s terror attack in Barcelona.

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A judge in the High Court in London has criticised Home Secretary Amber Rudd for failing to release a torture survivor from detention in spite of repeated court orders. At an emergency hearing yesterday, Mrs Justice Nicola Davies DBE said Mrs Rudd had provided "less than satisfactory reasons" for th

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