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In general solicitors are only able to appear before the district court and the sheriff court, except for solicitor advocates who have acquired rights of audience in the supreme courts.
For posts in the Clerking Dirctorate, which comprises the Committee Office and the Chamber Office, appointments are made to the Directorate as a whole, except where a post requires specialist skills and/or knowledge and experience.
The aims were to identify options by looking at what happens in other countries and to draw out comparative lessons and consider how they might be applied to Scotland.
Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exclusions and Exceptions) (Scotland) Order 2003 (draft) The Executive has acknowledged that this draft order was defectively drafted in respect of almost all the points that the committee raised.
It is good that the Justice 2 Committee is able to address the issue.I was unable to visit Cornton Vale on either of the two dates on which committee members made visits.
We give the water authorities central guidance on those matters. Proposals must compare with the public sector comparator and be value for money—there are various guidelines on that.