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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.
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.
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.
Council visits HMP Greenock and The Risk Management Authority
On 3rd December the Council visited HMP Greenock and the Risk Management Authority in Paisley. The Council also held its last business meeting of 2021 at the RMA. You can read more about the Council’s visits in our latest blog.
Two members of the Scottish Sentencing Council have been appointed as sheriffs
Former Summary Sheriff Paul Brown and Matthew Jackson QC were among 18 new Sheriffs appointed by Her Majesty The Queen following recommendation by the First Minister on Friday 13 August.