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Neil Stevenson The Scottish Legal Complaints Commission(SLCC) has responded to two Law Society of Scotland consultations on the future of regulation of the solicitor profession in Scotland.

The Scottish Human Rights Commission is developing its Strategic Plan for 2016-2020. To help it set out its priorities and improve how it works, it would like to hear from people and organisations from across Scotland’s communities.

Richard Monkhouse Magistrates are giving criminals lower sentences on purpose to avoid imposing controversial courts charges The Times reports.

The trial of a man accused of historical child sex offences has collapsed after prosecutors included charges on the indictment for which they had “no supporting evidence”. A judge at the High Court in Edinburgh deserted the indictment simplicter after ruling that the Crown had created “oppress

Jennifer Young Ledingham Chalmers has increased group turnover to £12.5 million, exceeding 2014’s record turnover by 0.76 per cent.

Lord Phillips Over 340 leading ex-judges and lawyers have criticised the UK government's response to Europe's refugee crisis in an open letter published in The Times.

Dame Elish Angiolini New laws on burials and cremations will mean another Mortonhall baby ashes scandal will never reoccur it has been claimed.

Mike Dailly Mike Dailly suggests an unequal relationship between tenants and landlords means many of the former are leading lives of misery.

Ewan MacLeod The Scottish government’s announcement that it would be putting in place a moratorium on granting planning permission for underground coal gasification (UGC) projects until the outcome of a potentially lengthy independent investigation could result in claims under the European Convent

Tim Whewall BBC Radio 4's File on Four programme has investigated a "mind-bogglingly" complex financial scam which has seen Europe's poorest country robbed of $1 billion – with the trail leading to an ex-council flat in Edinburgh and fraudsters who have availed themselves of the Scottish Limited P