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Council holds follow-up webinar on sentencing young people guideline
The Scottish Sentencing Council and CYCJ are pleased to announce a follow-up to January's highly popular webinar on the Council’s guideline on sentencing young people, which stimulated a great deal of discussion both during the event and afterwards.
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Lady Dorrian announced as RSE Fellow
The Chair of the Scottish Sentencing Council, Lady Dorrian, has been elected as a new Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE), Scotland’s National Academy.
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Sentencing young people guideline comes into effect
A NEW sentencing guideline developed by the Scottish Sentencing Council comes into effect in all courts in Scotland today (Wednesday, 26 January 2022).
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Council holds webinar on sentencing young people guideline
The Scottish Sentencing Council is pleased to announce that it will be holding a joint webinar with CYCJ on its new 'Sentencing young people’ guideline on 20 January 2022.
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Draft minutes of December 2021 meeting of the Scottish Sentencing Council
The minutes of the Council’s meeting held in Paisley earlier this month are now available.