* Sir John Lauder, Lord Fountainhall, 2nd Bt., Scottish judge and Legal writer

Prospective solicitors are then required to take the Diploma in Professional Legal Practice ( a one-year course provided by several Scottish universities ) and then undertake a two-year traineeship with a law firm before they can qualify as a solicitor.

The First Minister also has the power to appoint the Chief Legal Officers of the Scottish Government-the Lord Advocate and the Solicitor General but only with the support of the Scottish Parliament.

Roseanna Cunningham ( born 27 July 1951, Glasgow ) is the Scottish Government's Minister for Community Safety and Legal Affairs and Scottish National Party Member of the Scottish Parliament for Perthshire South and Kinross-shire, having previously represented Perth.

* List of Leading Scottish Legal Cases

Legal aid, administered by the Scottish Legal Aid Board, is available to some persons for cases of the Court of Session.

* List of Leading Scottish Legal Cases

* Scottish Legal Aid Board

It is administered by the Scottish Legal Aid Board.

* SLAB, abbreviation for the Scottish Legal Aid Board

In Scotland a wider network of Public Defender Solicitor Office lawyers employed by the Scottish Legal Aid Board are available to represent those accused of crimes in addition to private lawyers paid under the legal aid scheme.

For the majority of crimes in Scotland a procurator fiscal or fiscal depute presents the case for the prosecution in the Sheriff and Justice of the Peace Courts, and the case for the defence is presented either by the accused's own solicitor or by one from the Public Defence Solicitors ' Office, a part of the Scottish Legal Aid Board.

* Scottish Legal Aid Board

* Scottish Legal Aid Board

* Scottish Legal Complaints Commission

Civil Registration of all Births, Deaths & Marriages has been compulsory in Scotland since 1855 when the UK government passed several Acts & Bills, effectively to stop the Scottish Traditional Practice of Legal Weddings being performed by communities.

He has been a member of the Scottish Legal Aid Board and the Scottish Valuation Advisory Council and Deputy Chairman of the Copyright Tribunal.

She was President of the National Society and of the Royal Scottish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children and Invalid Children's Aid Nationwide ( also called ' I CAN ').

It supported developments like Workers Aid for Bosnia, the Scottish Socialist Party, the Socialist Alliance, the International Socialist Movement, the World Social Forum, the Respect coalition, Hands Off Venezuela, the Palestine Solidarity Campaign and the Campaign against Climate Change.

In 1996 Mercy Corps merged with Scottish European Aid and formed an organisation registered as Mercy Corps Scotland in 2000.

Without the Aid of a Safety Net is the first live album by Scottish band Big Country, released in 1994.

It was originally known as the National Women's Aid Federation, but later the group fragmented when a separate Scottish federation was launched.

* Scottish Women's Aid

* Scottish Women's Aid

VIA works closely with other statutory agencies, such as the Police and the Courts and with voluntary organisations, such as Court Witness Service, Women's Aid and Victim Support, and is a unique service in the Scottish criminal justice system.

Exhibits included a Robert Fortune garden, sponsored by Christian Aid Scotland, devoted to plants that he had introduced ; a mining garden ; a small wildlife garden from Scottish Natural Heritage ; and an exhibit recreating the centre of Inverness, planted with alpines.

She was trustee of the Lamp of Lothian Collegiate Trust from 1996 to 2005, and Chairman of the Board of Christian Aid from 1990 – 1997, and of both the Scottish International Piano Competition and the Scottish Association for Mental Health from 1995 to 1999.

Scottish industrial policy was made by the Board of Trustees for Fisheries and Manufactures in Scotland, which sought to build an economy complementary, not competitive, with England.

Encouraged and subsidised by the Board of Trustees so it could compete with German products, merchant entrepreneurs became dominant in all stages of linen manufacturing and built up the market share of Scottish linens, especially in the American colonial market.

In 1962, the British Transport Commission was wound up, and control passed to the British Waterways Board ; subsequently Scottish Canals took control.

Carroll is a member of the Board of Directors of other companies, including Boise Cascade, Vulcan Materials, American Express, Scottish Power, and Texas Medical Center.

The portrait of his wife also shows the influence of French art, an influence which helped greatly to form the practice of Ramsay, and which is even more clearly visible in the large collection of his sketches in the possession of the Royal Scottish Academy and the Board of Trustees, Edinburgh.

The FAW, along with the other three home nations ' associations ( The Football Association, Irish Football Association and Scottish Football Association ), had a permanent seat on the International Football Association Board ( IFAB ) and it was thought that many FIFA members were resentful of this and pressing for the four unions to unite into one combined side for the whole of the United Kingdom.

Established in 1876, it is the third-oldest national association in the world, and is one of the four associations ( along with the ( English ) Football Association, the Scottish Football Association, the ( Northern ) Irish Football Association and FIFA ) that make up the International Football Association Board, responsible for the Laws of the Game.

* Sir Henry Primrose ( 1846 – 1923 ), Scottish civil servant who became Chairman of the Board of Inland Revenue

Eleanor Lee writes in the " History of the School of Nursing of the Presbyterian Hospital, New York, 1892-1942 ", that Maxwell, born in New York but of Scottish descent, was recruited for the position by Mr. John Stewart Kennedy, a wealthy Scottish financier who was then serving as the Presbyterian Hospital's President of the Board of Trustees.

He was a member of the Board of the British Council ( and Chairman of its Scottish Committee ) from 1993 – 2002 ; a Director of the Martin Currie Pacific Trust from 1993 – 2002 and Chairman of the Trustees of the National Museums of Scotland from 2002-06.

As Opposition Front Bench Spokesman on Scottish Affairs, Taylor said in November 1974 that a general directive to the National Coal Board should follow the guidelines of the Social Contract in any wage settlement.

On 17 October 1912, Tom Johnston was welcomed to the Board of the City of Glasgow Friendly Society ( now Scottish Friendly ).

Johnston subsequently served as chairman of various Scottish organisations, including the Scottish National Forestry Commission ( 1945 – 48 ) and the North of Scotland Hydro-Electric Board ( 1946 – 59 ).

In 1928, the Scottish Board of Health, the Board of Agriculture for Scotland, and the Prison Commissioners for Scotland were abolished as semi-independent bodies and instead became departments, and were moved to Edinburgh.

In 1938, the Report of the Departmental Committee on Scottish Administration recommended that certain departments be merged, and in 1939 the Scottish Education Department, Department of Health for Scotland, Department of Agriculture for Scotland, Fishery Board for Scotland and the Prisons Department for Scotland were abolished as separate departments, and instead became departments of the Secretary of State ( in practice, the Scottish Office ).

The Education and Health departments stayed relatively intact, but the Prisons Department, the Department of Agriculture for Scotland and the Fishery Board for Scotland merged with the remainder of the old Scottish Office to become the Scottish Home Department.

* Scottish Board of Health