New Friday Drop-In Surgery
12th January 2012
Renfrewshire Law Centre will be offering a new Drop-In Surgery on Friday mornings with the first session scheduled for Friday, 3 February 2012.
Tuesday Drop-In Surgery sessions will cease, with the last taking place on Tuesday, 24 January 2012.
Monday, Wednesday and Thursday Drop-In Surgery sessions are unaffected, as in the Friday Helpdesk at Paisley Sheriff Court.
It is hoped that this new arrangement will enhance our availability to service users by spreading the Surgery times over a broader number of days and by including a morning session, whereas in the past all sessions have been afternoon-based.
All service users ...
RLC Lawyer Seconded to SCRA
9th January 2012
In January 2012 Iain McLean, RLC Consultant Solicitor, who has a wealth of experience in children's law, among other areas, went on sabbatical from the Law Centre in order to take up secondment with the Scottish Children's Reporter's Administration (SCRA). Accordingly, he will no longer practise from these offices on a day-to-day basis until further notice.
Paisley Snail Conference Makes Mail on Sunday
17th August 2011
New Employment Law Advice Service
21st June 2011
Tuesday, 2.00—4.00 p.m. (first-come-first-served)
As of Tuesday, 28 June 2011 Renfrewshire Law Centre will offer an extra employment law drop-in surgery for Renfrewshire residents wishing advice on their employment rights, whether relating to workplace grievances, unpaid wages, unfair dismissal, redundancy, discrimination etc. This service is for employees and former employees. You should bring relevant financial information, otherwise the Law Centre may not be in a position to assist (please see below).
This is a new additional service. The Law Centre will continue to run its regular drop-in surgeries from Monday to Thursday for other matters.
Well Done, Claire
20th June 2011
Renfrewshire Law Centre Directors & Staff wish to congratulate Claire Gillies on completing her legal traineeship with the Law Centre to become a fully qualified solicitor with effect as of 15 June 2011, and we are pleased to announce her decision to remain with the Law Centre, hopefully well into the future.
A graduate of both Paisley University and Strathclyde Law School, Claire joined Renfrewshire Law Centre in early 2007 as a law student volunteer. Working here in order to pay her way through university, she formally joined the Law Centre staff on a permanent basis as a paralegal in mid-2008 ...
Iain Wilson in Memoriam
10th June 2011
Iain Wilson
in Memoriam
Renfrewshire Law Centre Director
It is with great sadness that Renfrewshire Law Centre has to report the death of Iain Wilson on 8 June 2011. Iain served as a Director of Renfrewshire Law Centre for many years, giving of his time wholly voluntarily, and Renfrewshire Law Centre is indebted to him for his support, guidance and wisdom over the years. Iain was also active in numerous other local community organisations, including Linwood Community Council, Linwood Tenants’ Association, Linwood Old Age Pensioners’ Association and Linstone Housing Association (of which he was Chair). Thus he remained as busy ...
Paisley Snail Conference, Call For Papers
3rd June 2011
The Call for Papers for the conference is now open.
Practising and academic lawyers from any part of the world and of any nationality are invited to respond to the Call for Papers. Speakers will be selected on the basis of abstracts submitted in response to the Call for Papers.
Abstracts should be submitted by Thursday 1st September 2011 and will be selected by the Donoghue v Stevenson International Conference 2012 Papers Review Committee.
Papers may focus on any aspect of tort, negligence, and delict which is pertinent to the general overall rationale of the event, however, preference will be ...
UK Supreme Court Dabbles in Scots Human Rights ?
3rd June 2011
Marisa Gillick, Volunteer Law Student at Renfrewshire Law Centre, writes about the role of the UK Supreme Court in Scottish criminal cases.
Following their recent success in the elections to the Scottish Parliament, the Scottish Nationalist Party (SNP) are set to challenge the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom over its intervention in Scots law regarding Human Rights issues.
The situation intensified following a ruling by the Supreme Court that the conviction of Nat Fraser, who is currently serving a life sentence for allegedly arranging the murder of his wife, Arlene, in 1998 was unsafe.
The SNP’s contention regards ...
Super-Injunctions: What You Need to Know
31st May 2011
David Young, Volunteer Law Student at Renfrewshire Law Centre, writes about super-injunctions.
What is a super-injunction?
A super-injunction is a form of court order available in England and Wales (but not in Scotland, where the equivalent to an injunction is an interdict, although so far there is no 'super interdict'). It is a two-tiered 'gagging order' and more rigorous than a normal injunction. An injunction prevents newspapers from printing allegations about a public figure or an organisation. A super-injunction goes a step further and stops them from reporting on the existance of the injunction itself.
How did super-injunctions come about ...
Law Centre Client Wins DLA Appeal in Landmark Case Before Upper Tribunal
20th May 2011
In April this year, one of our clients from Paisley (CF), a retired whisky bond assembly line worker, won her case for Disability Living Allowance before the Upper Tribunal in one of the first examples in Scotland, if not the first, of the government appealing against the First Tier Tribunal’s decision to award the benefit.
Although her claim was for low rate care component only, ‘the cooking component’, therefore, in the grand scheme, relatively modest in week-by-week terms, nonetheless this small sum was of significant practical value to her, and could amount to a five-figure sum over the course ...