{"id":65238,"date":"2015-12-09T15:48:58","date_gmt":"2015-12-09T15:48:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=d1474b2d15ec0f176d3a7fc2817c4e38"},"modified":"2015-12-09T15:48:58","modified_gmt":"2015-12-09T15:48:58","slug":"press-release-advocate-general-agrees-deal-with-cabinet-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=65238","title":{"rendered":"Press release: Advocate General Agrees Deal With Cabinet Office"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>ADVOCATE GENERAL AGREES DEAL WITH CABINET OFFICE AIMED AT SEEING THE RESOLUTION OF MORE CONTRACT DISPUTES IN SCOTLAND<\/p>\n<p>Disputes under the major UK Government services contract can now be resolved in Scotland, the Advocate General for Scotland Lord Keen of Elie QC announced today.<br \/>\nThe Advocate General told a meeting of the Scottish Legal Services Co-Ordination Group in Edinburgh that he had reached an agreement with the Cabinet Office for there to be a Scottish version of their model services contract specifying Scots law as the governing law and Scotland as the seat of any arbitration. <br \/>\nThe Cabinet Office has now agreed to the Advocate General\u2019s request that their major model services contract for services of \u00a310 million and over, should have a Scottish version. This suggestion was made by members of the Scottish Legal Services Co-ordination Group. It means that those using the model can allow for Scots Law to be the governing law and Scotland to be the seat of any arbitration not London.<br \/>\nCommenting, Lord Keen said \u201cI am pleased that the UK Government are able to take this step, it is leading by example in the hope industry will also consider using such contractual terms, resulting in the potential for more commercial disputes to be resolved in Scotland\u201d. <\/p>\n<p>Further information:-<br \/>\nThe Scottish Legal Services Group brings together representatives of the UK and Scottish Governments, professional bodies, the alternative dispute resolution sector, business organisations and other agencies. It aims to provide a forum for information sharing and ideas and agreement on consistent messaging, with a view to a co-ordinated approach to the promotion of the profession internationally.<br \/>\nThe group includes representatives from:<br \/>\n\u2022\tThe Faculty of Advocates<br \/>\n\u2022\tThe Law Society of Scotland<br \/>\n\u2022\tThe Office of the Advocate General (UK Government)<br \/>\n\u2022\tThe Scottish Government Justice Directorate<br \/>\n\u2022\tThe Scottish Arbitration Centre<br \/>\n\u2022\tScottish Development International (SDI)<br \/>\n\u2022\tScottish Enterprise<br \/>\n\u2022\tScottish Financial Enterprise<br \/>\n\u2022\tVisitScotland<br \/>\nThe group also works closely with UK Trade and Industry and the  Ministry of Justice.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Disputes under the major UK Government services contract can now be resolved in Scotland, the Advocate General for Scotland Lord Keen of Elie QC announced today<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65238"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}