Journal online news archive for 2017
- Posts in 2017
Ministers review support for women and children victims of violence
Equally Safe strategy also to be revised
Womble Bond Dickinson formally launches
Completed merger produces new transatlantic firm
Allan McDougall merges with McQueen Legal
Enlarged practice operates from nine Edinburgh and Lothians offices
Extended sentence prisoner fails in "rehabilitation opportunity" appeal
Supreme Court aligns law with less demanding ECtHR standard
Proceeds of crime assets code put out to consultation
Code of practice intended to aid police searches
Faculty in favour of sentencing principles guideline
Response supports Sentencing Council's "fairness and proportionality" approach
Mitchells Roberton secures another merger
Kerr Barrie's partners and staff transfer to old established firm
Conference to be held in honour of George Gretton
December event coincides with publication of Festschrift
MMS becomes Dentons as merger completes
Combined firm boasts 158 locations in 66 countries
Further anti-people trafficking powers now in force
Trafficking and exploitation risk orders available to courts
Latest OPG figures show reduced power of attorney delays
EPOAR target time now being met
UK Government could allow some prisoners to vote
Report suggests concession to home release inmates serving less than a year