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NASC conference
Council members are to attend an extensive conference on sentencing and policy in the United States next month.
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Lord President speaks on sentencing
Lord Carloway, the Lord President, spoke yesterday of the Council’s role in sentencing when he delivered the speech, 'Imprisonment in Scotland: towards a penological post-modernism’ to the Scottish Universities Insight Institute.
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official launch event
The Council was yesterday hailed as a milestone in the justice system at an event to mark its official launch.