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3 Mar 2009, 1:52 pm
Russian Law Online, operated by The Legal Communications Ltd. in Edinburgh, Scotland, offers the top Russian legal news stories, a law newsletter, and an Encyclopedia of Russian Law.The ENCYCLOPEDIA OF RUSSIAN LAW at that website covers the following topics, each of which is divided into further subtopics:Russian Law in General, Joint Stock Companies, Employment, Pension and Welfare, Personal Income Tax, Unified Social Tax, Forms of Doing Business, Partnerships, Intellectual Property,… [read post]
2 Mar 2009, 5:13 am
Meanwhile England and Wales have the highest per capita expenditure on policing in the developed world, apart from Scotland. [read post]
1 Mar 2009, 9:56 am
Dundas & Wilson, one of Scotland's larger law firms, plans to shed 50 jobs as the credit crunch and crumbling business in the legal sector bites.Since there's not much incentive for anyone to use legal services in Scotland these days, things can only get worse in the legal sector unless standards of service and more competitive fees for legal work come to be implemented …The Scotsman reports :Scotland's… [read post]
1 Mar 2009, 8:46 am
The matter was discussed at a meeting between the Association of Chief Police Officers in Scotland and a forum of police board conveners last week. [read post]
1 Mar 2009, 3:16 am
Documents from Registers of Scotland show that Don, an aide to Justice Secretary Kenny Macaskill, made himself eligible for the allowance after selling his family home for £290,000 in January 2008. [read post]
28 Feb 2009, 4:50 am
"The danger for Scotland is that the Penrose inquiry will find itself in the same position with absolutely no legal powers to force officials or Westminster government ministers to give evidence. [read post]
27 Feb 2009, 2:49 am
We would:Scrap ID cards for everyone, including foreign nationals.Ensure that there are no restrictions in the right to trial by jury for serious offences including fraud.Restore the right to protest in Parliament Square, at the heart of our democracy.Abolish the flawed control orders regime.Renegotiate the unfair extradition treaty with the United States.Restore the right to public assembly for more than two people.Scrap the ContactPoint database of all children in Britain.Strengthen freedom of… [read post]
26 Feb 2009, 9:39 am
Tucked into the Royal Bank of Scotland's announcement of a $34.2 billion annual loss - the largest in British corporate history - was word that the partially nationalized firm was getting out of leveraged finance lending. [read post]
26 Feb 2009, 8:24 am
In yet another instance of "it's a small world," Royal Bank of Scotland yesterday posted the largest annual net loss in British banking history--£24 thousand million (US$34 billion). [read post]
25 Feb 2009, 3:44 am
It’s bad enough that the UK seems hell-bent on placing surveillance cameras on every street corner, despite the fact that, according to a senior police official at Scotland Yard, they are an “utter fiasco. [read post]
24 Feb 2009, 1:21 pm
In an article by Martin Laffin in the January-March 2007 edition of Political Quarterly that I was just reading, about the coalition government in Scotland, I highlighted the following passage:"The Liberal Democrat negotiators in 1999 were acutely aware of how, in the Lib-Lab Pact of 1977-78, the then Liberal Party kept Labour in office yet gained very little in policy terms. [read post]
23 Feb 2009, 5:00 am
Police Review sent all forces in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland a request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 for details of missing person reports, including how many each force received for the 2007/08 financial year. [read post]
22 Feb 2009, 8:41 am
The Office of Communications (Ofcom), the independent regulator for the UK communications industries, operated the Sitefinder mobile phone base station website, Sitefinder being a database that was set up as a result of recommendations made in the Stewart Report 2000 following public concern as to the potential risks to health which might be occasioned by electro-magnetic radiation emitted from mobile telephones.The Information Manager for Health Protection in Scotland, in the… [read post]
20 Feb 2009, 3:14 pm
Thanks to a rather inaccurate article in today's Guardian for pointing to a study by the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies of the University of Oxford on the comparative costs of defamation proceedings in eleven European jurisdictions, not including Scotland. [read post]
20 Feb 2009, 8:53 am
The Royal Bank of Scotland Group may be holding an international yard sale. [read post]
20 Feb 2009, 8:36 am
Solicitor-advocates are in the news as Lord Gill, the Lord Justice Clerk calls for a review of the way the Law Society fails to regulate their work …The Scotsman reports :Senior judge calls for review of solicitor advocates systemPublished Date: 19 February 2009By EMILY PYKETTA SENIOR judge in Scotland has called for a review of the system of solicitor advocates representing people in court. [read post]
19 Feb 2009, 12:14 pm
I’d expect X v Hounslow to follow suit now and confirm that, in England as in Scotland, there is no duty of care owed in respect of the criminal acts of ones tenants, unless “something more” can be found or some sort of assumption of responsibility. [read post]
19 Feb 2009, 9:19 am
Halliwells has negotiated a strict new loan arrangement with the Royal Bank of Scotland, giving RBS security rights on firm assets in the event of any repayment problems. [read post]
19 Feb 2009, 1:17 am
Want to read how they handle cohabitation in Scotland and England? [read post]
18 Feb 2009, 3:15 pm
In an important judgment, the High Court (Lord Justice Clerk, Lord Osborne, and Lord Nimmo Smith) considers the professional conduct and practice of solicitor advocates in Scotland. [read post]
