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Patients Rights advice service launched

A number of sections of the Patients Rights (Scotland) Act 2011 came into force on 2 April 2012, including provision for a new, independent advice service for NHS patients and their representatives across Scotland.... Read more

Welfare reform and Scotland

The Scottish Government have introduced a short Bill to give Scottish Ministers regulation making powers to correctly link devolved matters to new UK social security benefits.... Read more

Public procurement restrictions introduced

Companies face a ban from bidding for public sector contracts where they are linked to people convicted of bribery offences or serious organised crime.... Read more

Additional SLAB funding for advice projects announced

£7 million from the Scottish Government and the Money Advice Service is to be made available over the next three years to provide legal and money advice in Scotland.... Read more

Shetland skippers fined for illegal herring haul

Seventeen Scottish fishermen have been fined a total of nearly three quarters of a million pound their part in a black market fishing scam. The skippers admitted landing nearly £50 million of mackere... Read more

Employment law for employees

Unless the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill currently before parliament is amended advice on most employment problems will no longer be provided by the legal aid system.... Read more

Looking again at children disputes 2

Looking again at disputes over arrangements for children.... Read more

ECJ – Social media cannot be forced to monitor file sharing

The European Court of Justice has decided that the national courts of EU member states cannot force social networking sites to monitor users for copyright infringement.... Read more

Polluter pays

Figures recently published by the Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) show that repossession rates in 2011 were at their lowest level in four years, but the CML warns this could be set to rise.... Read more

Looking again at children disputes 1