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The Scottish Sentencing Council has brought together comprehensive and easy to read information on sentencing practice in a bid to demystify the sentencing process in Scotland. Sentencing can be complicated and the resource has been developed to provide comprehensive information in one place as a re

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David Harvie has been appointed to the role of crown agent, head of Scotland's prosecution service, taking over from Catherine Dyer who leaves at the start of April. Mr Harvie is a solicitor advocate and is currently procurator fiscal for the West of Scotland.

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Legislation to modernise the governance and scrutiny of burials and cremations has been passed by the Scottish Parliament. The Burial and Cremation (Scotland) Bill will modernise and update 100 year-old legislation – introducing a definition of ashes, standardising forms and record-keeping across

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Scottish laws on insolvency have been brought together into one piece of legislation for the first time in a generation today as the new Bankruptcy (Scotland) Bill 2016 was passed by the Scottish Parliament. The bill captures all of the amendments made to the primary legislation governing bankruptcy

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The Scottish government has set out how to meet its potential for “effective, economic and environmentally sustainable” land use. The revised Land Use Strategy sets out policies and proposals for the next five years and beyond. Getting the best from our land is Scotland’s second land use strat

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New analysis shows that an 8,000 jobs boost follows each one per cent growth in legal services; that £379 million is added to the economy for every one per cent growth in the UK legal services sector and that the sector grew by eight per cent from 2014 to 2015. The first ever investigation of the w

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