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Setting the safeguards
Ministers in a groove on corroboration
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Governments decide
And where legal aid is concerned, it takes a lot to force a change of mind
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Ask a lawyer
Time for the Government to listen to informed concerns over the recommendations of the Carloway report
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Dumfries lawyers back Edinburgh/Glasgow stand
Faculty believes Government's legal aid scheme "fatally flawed"
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Closing submissions
Time to test whether the Scottish Court Service consultation on restructuring the courts is realistic in its ambitions
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Shall we party for our friend's 21st?
Let's plan for the £42.20 legal aid rate reaching the milestone next April
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So what's new for justice?
What is the purpose of the new Government paper?
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Weight of evidence
Ministers should rethink rush to end corroboration
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Open to public view
Step by step approach to TV in court the right one
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Letter: ESTO Law
Matters that should be included in the investigation
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Knocking out a pillar
Can we challenge the Carloway approach?
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To jail or not to jail?
Arguments about effective sentencing come round again
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Reality of Death Row
Amicus event exposes inadequacies of capital cases
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Sectarianism bill
Justice Committee performing role?
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Appealing approach
Are we too suspicious of the McCluskey "certification" proposal?
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Access to justice: speaking in the public interest
Vice President explains the role of the Society’s Access to Justice Committee
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Go to jail
Riot cases highlight the problems in "cracking down"
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Legal advice and assistance and legal aid accounts
Another anomaly comes to light in a case of an apparently mentally ill accused
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Red letter day for legal aid
Government concession shows strength of united profession
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Food for further thought
McCluskey interim report useful, but more work to be done
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Seen to be doing something
A constructive way forward for the anti-sectarianism bill?
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UK Supreme Court needed as effective domestic remedy
Scottish Human Rights Commission open letter to Members of the Scottish Parliament
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Police station duty plan proposals unacceptable
Open leter from Glasgow Bar Association rejects current SLAB/Scottish Government plan
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Judges and politicians
Scottish ministers have surely overstepped the mark this time