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In this section of our website we offer an occasional insight into our views, and comment, on the issues that we meet in our work. Whether you agree or disagree with us, we’d be pleased to hear your views on the matters discussed. Get in touch with us through our “contact” page.

January 27 2020

Crisis? What Crisis?

The Scottish government has said legal aid is functioning well and that “any suggestion to the contrary is untrue” amid a warning that the tide of lawyers leaving the profession makes its collapse imminent. From the ScottishLegal.com website we reproduce this article, highlighting the critical state of Legal Aid in Scotland. We, and many others, have been […]

January 16 2020

“Suzanne’s Law”

Comment, News, Television

On STV this evening (16 January) Scotland Tonight explored Scottish Government plans to introduce “Suzanne’s Law” – a proposal that parole be denied to prisoners convicted of murder who fail to disclose the location of a victim’s body. The proposal founds on the entirely reasonable premise that the suffering of murder victims’ families is compounded, […]