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Four weeks left to support LawCare research project
Study aims to show impact of work culture and practices on wellbeing

Period Products Bill passes final stage
Lennon hails collaboration to "consign period poverty to history"

Ministers consult on electrician law after bill proposal
Paper asks whether regulation needed for public protection

Plea to support ambitious LawCare wellbeing survey
"Groundbreaking" study seeks to understand impact of work culture

Breaches of rights in social care cuts: Commission
Removal of care plans during COVID-19 has had "direct and adverse effect"

New lawyers and students unsupported in lockdown: SYLA
Survey finds more on furlough and students lacking support

Husband's will completed consent for IVF with semen
Court grants widow's petition to declare effective statutory consent

Faculty doubts incentive effect of NHS recovery bill
"No reason to believe" member's bill will have workplace safety impact

March date for new organ donation system
Opt-out to come into force in spring 2021 after COVID-19 delay

Holyrood committee backs Forensic Medical Services Bill
Stage 1 report supports giving victims more control over reporting

Forensic mental health interim report highlights issues
Evidence shows system at capacity and problems accessing services

Large gatherings in houses now an offence
New anti-COVID-19 regulations penalise house parties of more than 15

Six month extension for Coronavirus (Scotland) Acts
Selected provisions will expire, but Acts to continue until 31 March

IBA embarks on lawyers' mental wellbeing project
Surveys for individuals and law firms launched to provide key data

Workplace COVID-19 tests to be tax free, Sunak confirms
HMRC to revise guidance following Chancellor's intervention

MSPs call for repeal of emergency mental health law
Committee believes unused streamlined powers no longer justified

COVID police powers review group calling for evidence
Public invited to report their experiences under emergency powers

ICO issues employee data guidance as businesses reopen
Six principles explained for holding staff health data

IBA signs up to pandemic support for LGBTI rights
187 organisations in demand to UN for no discrimination in special measures

Quarantine rules face challenge as they take effect
Airlines claim 14 day rule irrational and disproportionate

Mental health law needs more focus on young: Faculty
Review submission calls for more tailored provisions to safeguard rights

Law centre threatens disability claim over lockdown
Claim of discrimination after Cummings invokes "exceptional circumstances"

Second Coronavirus Bill passes Holyrood final stage
Ministers defeated twice on stage 3 amendments

Holyrood inquiry to review pandemic preparedness
Committee to explore how better to manage future outbreaks