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Legal aid for bin lorry victim families in private prosecution bid
Ministers allow public funds for bereaved and driver in High Court hearing
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LBTT supplement bill passes final Holyrood stage
MSPs defeat 14 day grace period for main home movers
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Better control of "arm's length" council bodies needed, MSPs report
Committee wants "more hands-on" approach to reflect public need
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Call to criminal lawyers to aid forensic evidence research
Views sought on empirical evidence against professional experience
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Scottish house sales in 2015 at highest level since 2008: Registers
Calendar year statistics show 4.5% increase
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House movers should not be caught by "second home" tax: Society
Concern that proposed grace period not long enough
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Director appointment and promotion at Blackadders
Gillian Gibson joins firm as Ellen Eunson advanced
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Stagecoach tax avoidance scheme defeated in HMRC challenge
Intra-group loss-creating transactions held ineffective
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Guarantors lose challenge to mine restoration bond notice terms
Argument rejected that successive notices required
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Summer 2018 target date for Inverness Justice Centre
Justice Secretary announces timetable as funding confirmed
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Competition body halts fake online review operation
Marketing company to take steps to remove false postings
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Proposed simple rules could be simpler, Faculty claims
"Risk of confusion" from some proposed terms
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Lord Coulsfield dies after short illness
Judge devised reparation action procedure and sat in Lockerbie trial
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Ministers boast majority female appointments to public boards
Number exceeded men for first time in 2015
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Family partner hire at Anderson Strathern
Janice Jones joins from Harper Macleod
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Senior associate promotion at WJM
Advancement for John Grant in conflict resolution
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Foundation calls for better human rights protection in Scotland
Government should be "more proactive" in making rights relevant
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Council tax bands to be adjusted, but ministers shy off wider reforms
Properties from bands E-H will pay higher rates; freeze to end
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University mourns a foreign-born friend of Scots law
Aberdeen tributes follow death of David Carey Miller
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Vice Dean stands up for defence counsel against Carloway comments
Judges and Faculty should work together to uphold standards: Jackson
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UK Government backs off from changes to freedom of information
Review concludes Act "working well"
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SSDT annual report records 25 misconduct findings
Practice rules and CML Handbook breaches predominate
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Douglas Alexander to be strategic adviser to Pinsent Masons
Former minister to advise clients on Brexit referendum
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Timing announced for air weapons licensing scheme
Certificate required from 31 December; applications open 1 July