Journal online news archive for 2016
- Posts in 2016
SLAB details simple procedure legal aid rules
Fees to be chargeable on detailed fee basis
Eight lawyers appointed to Mental Health Tribunal for Scotland
Six advocates and two solicitors join legal members
Drinks lobby to appeal minimum price ruling to Supreme Court
Argument that Inner House did not properly review EU law compatibility
Government not to seek further limits on Lords, BBC reports
Strathclyde proposals over statutory instruments not to be pursued
Lady Hale to sit in article 50 appeal despite protests over speech
Deputy President denies any bias in setting out issues
Facebook messages to ex-partner over contact held not to be threatening
Appeal against conviction allowed despite complainer's distress
Lord Hodge address sets out "pillars" of judicial independence
Ten features include stand against media "caricatures"
Police, prosecutors clash over domestic abuse cases
Fiscals deny claims that hopeless cases being taken to court
UK to opt in to new Europol powers
Scottish minister says questions remain over future post-Brexit
Glasgow solicitor named as Latvian Honorary Consul
David Kaye becomes first office holder since independence
SHRC backs UN report over impact of welfare cuts
Call on UK Government to reverse effect on disabled
Fiscal Service struggling with underfunding, inquiry submissions reveal
Police, Fiscals' Society and union all point to resource pressures