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  • MSPs then quizzed Lord Mackay of Clashfern and Adrian Ward of the Law Society of Scotland.

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  • The President of the Edinburgh Bar Association, the organisation which represents defence lawyers, said the action had the full backing of the Law Society of Scotland.

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  • The Faculty of Advocates and Law Society of Scotland warned that lawyers would struggle, or even refuse, to represent an accused without instruction where the trial proceeded in their absence before all evidence had been heard.

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  • The Faculty of Advocates and the Law Society of Scotland, who welcomed the bill's broad principles, said they would be unable to properly represent an accused without their instructions during evidence-taking, and both warned that their members would most likely refuse to take on such a role.

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  • When he was elected president in 1997, Muhammad Khatami, a cleric and a son of the revolution, proposed a strikingly democratic manifesto, full of references to civil society and the rule of law, and promised to improve women's rights.

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  • England at the time could in no sense be described as a democracy, but the idea of accountability was entrenched at all levels of society by centuries of the common law, creating the political conditions for a constitutional monarchy and a dynamic economy.

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  • What's amazing is that the video remained on the Internet for a week, moving to other sites as soon as one was blocked, long enough for millions of surfers to have heard the students' cry: 'In a society under the rule of law, something infuriatingly unjust has happened!

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  • "You have these cities you assume to be violent, and New Orleans is two or three times worse, " said Peter Scharf, director of the Center for Society, Law and Justice at the University of New Orleans.

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  • We have to combat a highly sophisticated Islamist influence operation at work in the United States This operation permeates all levels of our civic and political society, including some of the law enforcement community, who in their zeal to be educated on the concerns of the Muslim community have inadvertently embraced those organizations that are frequently the problem rather than the solution to the homegrown threat.

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  • The Thomas More Law Center and the Society of Americans for National Existence are public interest law firms litigating in areas to defend the Judeo-Christian foundations of this country and its national sovereignty.

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  • The judge, who sits in Truro, Plymouth and Exeter crown courts, went on to make inquiries of the Law Society and the Bar Council, which covers barristers, but found no record of Evans.

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  • He did so without consulting the judges or the Law Society of Kenya.

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  • For the Law Society of England and Wales, getting the Indians to free up their market is high on the wish-list.

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  • No person wants to live in a society where the rule of law gives way to the rule of brutality and bribery.

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  • In that book he examined Japanese society through the lens of law.

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  • Before taking evidence from Ms Sturgeon, MSPs will quiz Alan McCreadie from Law Reform and Jim McLean from the Law Society of Scotland .

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  • Having long monopolised that role, the Law Society of Scotland has applied for registration and is working, very slowly, through the process with the Scottish government.

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  • The Law Society of Scotland has also raised concerns the move could turn solicitors into "unpaid debt collectors", saying the Scottish Legal Aid Board was the "obvious body" for collecting money.

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  • The three critical ingredients, he argues, are a strong state, the application of the rule of law to all parts of society and a means of holding rulers to account for their actions.

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  • The Law Society of Scotland has already raised concerns about part of the Bill which would mean solicitors having to collect the contributions themselves, arguing that this would turn them into "unpaid debt collectors".

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  • The Law Society of Scotland has noted that while the imposition of a minimum price of alcohol is a devolved matter within the legislative competence of the Scottish Parliament, compatibility with EU Duty Directives must be taken into account.

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  • Brian Forst, a professor of justice, law and society at American University, said many of the provisions in the package would, indeed, give the government more powerful tools to fight terrorism.

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  • "The descent into social rancor over judicial decisions is largely traceable to nontextual means of interpretation, which erodes society's confidence in a rule of law that evidently has no agreed-upon meaning, " write Scalia and Garner.

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  • Some of them were members of that marginal society, in and out of trouble with the law, it fell to Father MacRae to counsel.

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  • In the long-term, the rebuilding of Pakistani civil society and restoring secular government and the rule of law is the only promising way to deal successfully with the Islamist threat.

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  • The inquiry will be chaired by Bill Knight, former chair of the Law Society's Company Law Committee.

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