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Pandemic cases backlog ‘will take years to clear’
Justice Secretary admits situation ‘has been tough'
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Replacement legal aid support fund open to applications
Firms have until 18 August to apply for share of £6.7m support
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Five organisations named for extra human rights funding
48 bodies in total to benefit from new Equality and Human Rights Fund
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Islands bond to support new settlement put out to views
Scottish Government plans £50,000 funding for up to 100 families
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Faculty deprecates Johnson "left-wing" lawyers slur
Interview remarks deplored as renewed attack on rule of law
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Justice Secretary will consider sex crime legal reforms
Call to improve Scotland's conviction rates for rape
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Ruth Davidson to join the House of Lords
New role for former Scottish Tory leader
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Costliest legal cases revealed by Scottish Government
Freedom of information reply shows 25 cases of £50,000+ in last five years
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Supreme Court hearing opens on challenge to Holyrood bills
UK Government claims UNCRC and Local Government Charter Bills beyond powers
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MSPs vote to extend coronavirus laws
Emergency measures in place until March 2022
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Remote hearings to continue under COVID extension bill
MSPs set to debate keeping selected provisions in force until March 2022
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Former MP and MSP Andrew Welsh dies aged 77
Nicola Sturgeon leads tributes to SNP politician
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Lords criticise inadequate scrutiny of COVID laws
Report calls for prior approval, and more clarity on what is mandatory
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Further Coronavirus Bill will extend some special powers
Questions as Scottish ministers plan to legislate ahead of summer recess
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Views sought on easier experimental traffic orders
Ministers want councils to be able to trial solutions flexibly
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RIPA surveillance regime held a breach of human rights
Strasbourg court finds 2000 Act powers too wide for Convention
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Legal aid support options aired as further talks held
Government sets out possible ways to use balance of resilience fund
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Faculty opposes "chilling" ideas to curb judicial review
Government's response to review could undermine rule of law
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Scottish law officers standing down
Lord Advocate and Solicitor General confirm intention to leave office
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Brown to be Justice Secretary in Sturgeon's new cabinet
Society seeks to make legal aid support top of the in-tray
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Inner House dismisses action seeking referendum ruling
Questions on draft Independence Referendum Bill "hypothetical and premature"
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Welsh devolution challenge to Internal Market Act refused
Judicial review held premature in absence of specific legislation
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UK Government to challenge two Holyrood bills
UNCRC and Local Government Charter bills face Supreme Court competency test
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Salmond launches new political party
Ex-First Minister to stand in May election