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Setting the safeguards

23rd December 2012 | criminal law
Ministers in a groove on corroboration

Governments decide

15th November 2012 | criminal law , government-administration
And where legal aid is concerned, it takes a lot to force a change of mind

Ask a lawyer

10th November 2012 | criminal law
Time for the Government to listen to informed concerns over the recommendations of the Carloway report

Dumfries lawyers back Edinburgh/Glasgow stand

9th November 2012 | criminal law , government-administration
Faculty believes Government's legal aid scheme "fatally flawed"

Closing submissions

11th October 2012 | civil litigation , criminal law , government-administration
Time to test whether the Scottish Court Service consultation on restructuring the courts is realistic in its ambitions

Shall we party for our friend's 21st?

8th October 2012 | criminal law
Let's plan for the £42.20 legal aid rate reaching the milestone next April

So what's new for justice?

14th September 2012 | civil litigation , criminal law , government-administration
What is the purpose of the new Government paper?

Weight of evidence

6th July 2012 | criminal law , government-administration
Ministers should rethink rush to end corroboration

Open to public view

12th April 2012 | civil litigation , criminal law
Step by step approach to TV in court the right one

Letter: ESTO Law

19th February 2012 | criminal law , law society of scotland
Matters that should be included in the investigation

Knocking out a pillar

18th November 2011 | criminal law , human rights
Can we challenge the Carloway approach?

To jail or not to jail?

30th October 2011 | criminal law
Arguments about effective sentencing come round again

Reality of Death Row

21st October 2011 | criminal law
Amicus event exposes inadequacies of capital cases

Sectarianism bill

9th October 2011 | criminal law
Justice Committee performing role?

Appealing approach

16th September 2011 | criminal law , human rights
Are we too suspicious of the McCluskey "certification" proposal?

Access to justice: speaking in the public interest

14th September 2011 | civil litigation , criminal law , law society of scotland
Vice President explains the role of the Society’s Access to Justice Committee

Go to jail

19th August 2011 | criminal law
Riot cases highlight the problems in "cracking down"

Legal advice and assistance and legal aid accounts

15th August 2011 | criminal law
Another anomaly comes to light in a case of an apparently mentally ill accused

Red letter day for legal aid

5th August 2011 | criminal law
Government concession shows strength of united profession

Food for further thought

3rd July 2011 | criminal law , human rights
McCluskey interim report useful, but more work to be done

Seen to be doing something

23rd June 2011 | criminal law , government-administration
A constructive way forward for the anti-sectarianism bill?

UK Supreme Court needed as effective domestic remedy

22nd June 2011 | civil litigation , criminal law , human rights
Scottish Human Rights Commission open letter to Members of the Scottish Parliament

Police station duty plan proposals unacceptable

9th June 2011 | criminal law , government-administration
Open leter from Glasgow Bar Association rejects current SLAB/Scottish Government plan

Judges and politicians

2nd June 2011 | criminal law , government-administration , human rights
Scottish ministers have surely overstepped the mark this time
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