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