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