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Prince Charles letters must be disclosed, Supreme Court rules
Attorney General wrong to overrule "advocacy correspondence" FoI ruling
Fiscal Commission to become a statutory body
Consultation opens on legislative underpinning
Society and Faculty call for better client confidentiality protection
Professional bodies' consultation responses call for stronger safeguards
Peers voice concerns over UK implications of Smith measures
Constitution Committee report calls for proper consideration
Stronger controls needed on email surveillance, MPs report
Committee calls for new offence for abuse by GCHQ
Inflation-plus rises proposed for court fees
Ministers seek to maintain proportion of costs covered
Ministers held in contempt over prisoner correspondence failure
No penalty imposed for single instance of opening privileged letter
Ministers open new public procurement consultation
EU directives prompt further review of rules
MSPs call for register of lobbying
Committee makes cross-party recommendations as basis for new law
Crown Office sets out key objectives in new strategic plan
Three year plan for 2015-18 published
SLAB warns of PVG vetting need ahead of children's legal aid deadline
Alert to solicitors to allow enough time to process application
MSPs back Community Empowerment Bill "right to buy" aims
But stage 1 report wants "fundamental issues" addressed
Conference to explore land database for Scotland
March event to look at Norwegian system as model
Courts doing business despite industrial action
Civil servants strike as final round of closures takes effect
Scottish Legal Aid Board in office move
New Haymarket premises expected to improve efficiency
Smith Commission powers given effect in draft clauses
UK ministers publish new devolution command paper
Ending of poll tax collection supported in stage 1 report
Committee majority backs general principles of bill
Successful rape appellant to have compensation claim reconsidered
Court rejects ministers' appeal that refusal letters not "irrational"
16 and 17-year-olds to vote in Scottish elections
Enabling powers to be devolved to Holyrood in March
Commissioner fears as ministers' FoI extension powers "woefully underused"
Special report to MSPs calls for new approach to designation
ECHR concerns over Counter-Terrorism Bill, Society claims
Questions raised over temporary exclusion and passport seizure powers
Faculty fears conflict of interest in new oil and gas regulator
Proposed Aberdeen-based body could have interest in disputes it rules on
Revenue Scotland announces board
Five to run new body from 1 January
Council damages payouts fall by half
Figures show big drop in latest five year period