Scottish Legal Aid Board annual report published: Dean’s statement
The Scottish Legal Aid Board (SLAB) has published its 2014-15 annual report, which shows an eight per cent, or £11.9m, drop in total expenditure.
The Scottish Legal Aid Board (SLAB) has published its 2014-15 annual report, which shows an eight per cent, or £11.9m, drop in total expenditure.
Lord Carloway, the Lord Justice-Clerk since 2012, has been appointed Lord President in succession to Lord Gill, who retired in May
The Faculty has admitted Gavin Sellar as a non-practising member.
Stating a date rather than setting a time limit could help avoid mistakes in requests for permission to appeal decisions of the Scottish Tribunals, the Faculty has suggested.
Ministers have been urged by the Faculty to wait at least five years to see the impact of same sex marriages before considering further changes to the law on civil partnerships.
The Faculty was “privileged” to play a part in a successful event to give young people a better grasp on human rights.
The Dean of Faculty, James Wolffe, QC, has welcomed the Crown Office’s publication of a policy on non-penalisation of refugees.
A special event with two eminent legal figures from either side of the Border was given added gloss by an announcement of a new website for the Faculty’s Human Rights and Rule of Law Committee.