The Ministry of Justice recently carried out a consultation process and officials say no final decision has been made on the future of the legal aid programme.
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Law in Action is the longest-running legal magazine radio programme on the BBC.
The Obama administration has been under growing pressure from politicians in Congress to share more details of its drone strike programme, including secret legal documents.
The programme regularly talks to leading legal figures at home and abroad but also hears from the people caught up in the law about how it affects their lives.
This first paper in the series seeks to lay the foundations for the rest of the programme by examining both the current legal and constitutional arrangements for Scotland within the UK and some of the potential consequences of independence.
It would also enable tens of thousands of legal immigrants to come to the US under a guest worker programme.
S. On a separate topic, some readers of this blog have enquired over the months whether the legal advice sought by Peter Robinson in relation to the Spotlight programme of 2010 will ever be published.
"Maybe he thought this remark to be amusing, but I think it is very disrespectful to compare a poll among 1, 513 British inhabitants of the islands, which was a publicity stunt that has no legal effect, no legal grounds, " she told BBC Radio 4's PM programme.
It s the very lack of understanding of scientific method and evidence among much of the legal profession that is a problem here, and the evidence of this programme is that this could be pervasive.
Community safety and legal affairs minister Roseanna Cunningham said the scheme was part of a wider programme from the Scottish government's which "seeks to ensure that we have a modern justice system that is fair, accessible and efficient, and better meets the needs of the people of the Scotland".
The programme confirms a problem which I experienced in over 25 years in the legal profession - attaching proper weight to expert evidence.
An acrimonious legal tussle cannot be ruled out - especially because the families would argue that the Panorama programme which named several men as being responsible for the bomb, could not have been made without the co-operation of members of the Garda and the then RUC.
However, Mr de la Mora also pointed out that the settlement "is the fruit of a US legal process, so outside of the US such initiatives could very well appear through the partner programme of Google, where we have ongoing relationships with publishers and copyright holders".
Throughout the course of 2013 and 2014, the Scotland analysis programme will look in more depth at the key issues at stake, building on the underlying legal issues outlined here.
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