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网页3 天之前 · Scotland's news service for lawyers. The number of criminal legal aid solicitors dropped from 1,459 in 2007 to 966, the Scottish Solicitors Bar Association (SSBA) has said as it warned the system was heading for collapse.
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网页2024年10月3日 · Man dismissed from British Legion bar over health and safety disclosures awarded over £21,000. 1 Oct 2024. 5 minutes. An employment tribunal has awarded a man over £21,000 after finding he was unfairly dismissed from his employment with the Royal British Legion Scotland’s Arbroath and District ...
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网页Lib Dems launch probe into proposed use of live facial recognition tech. 7 Oct 2024. 2 minutes. The Scottish Liberal Democrats have filed 40 parliamentary questions on Police Scotland’s proposed use of live facial recognition in a bid to force the Scottish government to ... pinsent masons.
Claire White: Additional charges in Scottish courts – a guide to the ...
网页2 天之前 · The First Division of the Inner House of the Court of Session has issued welcome guidance on the assessment of “additional charges” payable on solicitors’ fees in judicial accounts, writes Claire White. This is a percentage uplift on solicitors’ fees which is allowed where th
Law Society calls for stronger public protection measures in legal ...
网页2024年2月23日 · A majority of MSPs voted today to agree to the principles of the Regulation of Legal Services (Scotland) following the bill’s stage one debate in the Scottish Parliament.. The bill would deliver major changes to the way the legal sector is regulated, including far-reaching reforms to the complaints system, a new form of regulating legal businesses, and new restrictions over who can and ...
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网页2024年10月1日 · Rodrigo Rogelis: Rights of nature in Colombia. 24 Sep 2024. 5 minutes. Writing in Scottish Legal News today, Colombian researcher Rodrigo Rogelis discusses a 2016 ruling that confers legal rights on the Atrato River, which flows through the northwest ...
Lesley Montague: Third party rights under Scots common law
网页2024年3月14日 · Harper Macleod senior associate Lesley Montague examines third party rights under Scots common law. The landscape of third party rights in Scots law has changed significantly since the Contract (Third Party Rights) (Scotland) Act 2017 came into force. However, that legislation is not retrospective and applies only to …
Reform to regulation of legal services backed by committee
网页2024年2月9日 · The Regulation of Legal Services (Scotland) Bill sets out a modernised regulatory framework, which any firm that provides legal services in Scotland would be subject to. The Bill also reforms how complaints about legal firms are handled. Evidence presented to the committee showed that consumer groups, including Consumer Scotland, the Competition and Markets Authority and the Scottish Legal ...
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网页The Sheriff Appeal Court has ruled that parts (a) and (b) of section 81(1) of the Adoption and Children (Scotland) Act 2007 could not be severed from one another, and thus a purported permanence order made by a sheriff in respect of a 16-year-old child in …