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  • Holding Court

    Holding Court

    Open Justice: appeals for lawyers to join in project to boost public understanding

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  • Between a rock and a hard place

    Between a rock
    and a hard place

    The debate over HSBC Bank, lenders' panels and whether to require separate solicitors for borrowers and lenders

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  • Open questions

    Open questions

    Events are moving fast in the independence referendum debate, and the legal background is developing at the same time.

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  • Tough times are still ahead

    Tough times
    are still ahead

    Despite an overall average increase in partner profits in the 2011 Cost of time Survey, many firms are still facing very tough times, as Andrew Otterburn and John Pollock report

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Between a rock and a hard place

The debate over how the profession should respond to mortgage lenders' solicitor panel moves, and whether it is time to require separate representation of borrowers and lenders

Tough times are still ahead

Despite an overall average increase in partner profits in the 2011 Cost of Time Survey, many firms are still facing very tough times

Care: a new direction

Cared-for people, and their carers and advisers, will have to come to terms with the challenges of personal choice under pending Scottish Government legislative plans

Officer class

Significant changes have been taking place within the officers of court profession, which now boasts a compulsory membership body and a new fee structure

Open questions

Current developments in the legal background to the independence referendum debate, and whether the Scottish Parliament has power to pass its own bill

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