NEW LEAFLET 'A Quick Guide To Employment Rights for People Under 16' at only 80p per copy

NEW LEAFLET 'Quick Guide Parents Responsibilities and Rights' at only 80p per copy

BREAKING NEWS - NEW ACCESS TO LEGAL ADVICE WHEN QUESTIONED BY THE POLICE AT THE STATION!

The Supreme Court will be handing down  judgement on the 20th October 2010 in the case of HMA v Calder.   Until now you have not had the right to have a lawyer present when questioned by the police at the police station.   Until the judgement is available, the Lord Advocate has issued new guidelines. This means that if you are to be interviewed by the police as a suspect at a police station in a very serious case - homicide, attempted murder, any offence of serious violence, all sexual offences, road traffic fatalities and other very serious cases you can have access to a lawyer:

1.  You will be asked to name a solicitor (a lawyer) to be contacted, and you will be told that you can speak with the solicitor BEFORE you are questioned by the police.  If you don't know the name of a solicitor you can ask for the Duty Solicitor (solicitors sign up to take turns to do this and there is always one available)

2.  if you say that you want to do this you will be able to see the lawyer in private before the police interview you.  The police can only stop you from doing this if there is what is called a compelling reason why not - it can be complicated, but it is not likely to happen very often.

3. if you want your solicitor to be with you when you are questioned that will be okay for all but very unusual cases.

If you have questions - call us or email us

 

Are you a law student, trainee or legally qualified solicitor with time on your hands and a desire to expand your understanding of child law and children's rights? Or are you a non-legal person such as a social worker? Children's Rights Officer? Medic? student? or just someone with an interest in children's rights? We can use your help!

We need enthusiastic volunteers to help us out with a variety of projects. if you are interested, contact Iris Quar on 0131 667 6333 or email her at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

We ran a series of training days for individuals from July to September 2009 which proved to be very succesful and some of them were overbooked.To meet the demand for our training we are running Modular training days for individuals again from January to October 2010.

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The Centre has produced a NEW LEAFLET 'A Quick Guide to Employment Rights for People Under 16' at only 80p per copy

The Centre has produced a NEW LEAFLET 'A Quick Guide to Parents Responsibilities and Rights' at only 80p per copy

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MODULAR TRAINING SUMMER BONANZA

New for 2010! - Modular Training 

The Centre is offering a special SUMMER BONANZA on our new Modular Training that will run through May, June, July and August 2010.   We are offering a 10% discount on all our modular training days throughout the summer of 2010.   Also if there are two people from the same organisation then the cost will be full price for the the first person and half price for the second person (10% discount will not apply to this).   Members of the Centre are entitled to a 10% discount on all of the Centre's training, you will receive the 10% Summer Bonanza discount as well as the 10% members discount.    

The Centre is running a series of training days from January 2010 to October 2010 on a variety of legal issues relating to children and young people.

Please visit our Training for Individuals page for further information or contact us through our website or by telephone on 0131 667 633.

Please book early to avoid disapointment!