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This Ol' House
An article from the Nearly Legal housing law blog alerts draws my attention to the imminent (well, 1st April 2009) coming into force of Section 11 of the Homelessness etc (Scotland) Act 2003. This long awaited jigsaw piece of the legislation will require landlords to notify the local authority...
Petition PE1197
Petition by Bill Alexander calling on the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scottish Government to reform the legal system to adopt the Scandinavian system of allowing unrestricted access to legal representation before the court for example by allowing non-lawyers to appear in court on behalf of...
Sturgeon "not persuaded" on euthanasia
Nicola Sturgeon MSP, the Health Secretary, has been reported as saying she was "not persuaded" that assisted suicide should be made legal, after independent MSP Margo MacDonald said she hoped to bring legislation on the subject before Holyrood next year. Ms. Sturgeon (with whom I once...
Rape law concerns
Campaign groups have expressed concern over the "limitations" of new legislation which aims to strengthen the law on rape. The groups, including Rape Crisis Scotland, Scottish Women's Aid and Victim Support Scotland, presented their worries about the Sexual Offences (Scotland) Bill to...
Faculty responses to the Legal Profession Bill
Scots Law Blogger, Jonathan Mitchell QC brings us an interesting piece on some potentially thorny questions arising from the recently announced Legal Profession (Scotland) Bill. Covering questions including the "cab-rank rule" and "mixed doubles", his post on The Proposed...