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Double Glasgow employment hire for Weightmans
Partner and associate join Employment, Pensions & Immigration team
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Promotions round rewards five at Mackinnons
Four senior associates and a senior solicitor named
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Scullion Law Debating Cup won by East Kilbride school
St Andrew's & St Bride's judged winners in final
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Aberdein Considine wins UK award
"UK Law Firm of the Year" prize at Mortgage Gazette Awards
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Child Rights Convention to be given maximum effect
Swinney announces full incorporation to extent of Holyrood's powers
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Five new Court of Session judges named
Four men and one woman to join Supreme Courts bench
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Society confirms first accredited legal technologist
Sam Moore of Burness Paull awarded new status
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Post-Brexit Agriculture Bill goes out to views
Scottish Government seeks to retain CAP schemes
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Ashurst announces global parental leave policy
Minimum 18 weeks regardless of jurisdiction
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Scottish Budget date postponed until new year
Shortened timetable needed due to general election
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Retail workers protection measures go out to views
Holyrood committee calls for evidence as it begins stage 1
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Child evidence facility opens in Glasgow
Specialised suite offers pre-recording and remote links
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Aberdein Considine hires family law partner
Leonie Burke joins from Brodies
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Thorntons' Sports Challenge raises almost £59,000
Children's charities to share charity dinner proceeds
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Court backs Serco as asylum seekers' eviction appeals fail
No tenancy rights, and Serco not liable as public authority: Inner House
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Holyrood committee backs extension of Scots franchise (1)
Stage 1 report supports votes for EU nationals and some prisoners
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Holyrood committee backs extension of Scots franchise
Stage 1 report supports votes for EU nationals and some prisoners
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MSPs call for action to force sale of empty homes
Report wants Government to keep promise of compulsory orders
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Public inquiry to be held into Sheku Bayoh's death
Ministers move after decision not to prosecute police
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Social Security Scotland seeks input to equality strategy
Consultation invites views from disadvantaged groups
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Retired sheriff appointed to SCCRC
Retired sheriff Daniel Scullion has been appointed as a legal member of the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission.
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Time for a new Act on standard securities, Faculty believes
Scottish Law Commission's proposals supported in response
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MSPs seek views on Civil Partnership Bill
Stage 1 opens on bill to allow choice to different sex couples