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March 2009
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No standing still
President's message: the Society urges members to become involved in the initiatives to create a revitalised representative organisation
A new regime for financial advice
Changes in regulation, taken with new forms of business structure, will provide more options for solicitors to offer services on a broad front
United we stand?
Two consultants discuss what is needed for a practice merger to be a successful strategy to combat the recession
Watch your local trend
Registers of Scotland's quarterly house price release now includes average price information by house type for each local authority area
Cash flow: the five essentials
Reporting on the 2008 Cost of Time Survey, key statistics are highlighted, control of which will improve a firm's cash flow - and its prospects
Secure our future
A call to support this year's World Intellectual Property Day in April
Opportunity lost?
Home reports are defended against some of the recent criticisms, as the Journal collects initial comments on how the market has changed
The kilt doesn't quite fit
Practical difficulties under Scottish procedure for bringing company derivative actions, and the court's approach in the first request for leave
We can work it out
Initiatives are open to firms and individual lawyers to reduce the threat of redundancy - or to take the next steps if it happens
Asset in recovery
As the Society promotes the qualification for insolvency practitioners, some insolvency lawyers talk about their work and what it needs
Law reform update
A roundup of some of the many projects currently being undertaken by the Society's team
Be your own money saving expert
Author shares some stratgies that have enabled his property firm to adapt to current market conditions
Skeleton crew
Those files you can't bear to open, but which could turn nasty if you don't, could well benefit from a fresh pair of eyes
Ask Ash
Advice for a newly qualified solicitor worried at the responsibility they are being asked to assume
Only half a step
The interim report Digital Britain sets out some important objectives, but falls short when it comes to ways of achieving them
Learning experience
Some suggestions on how to learn lessons from and minimise the risk of recurrence of a claim against the firm
Too late, too late?
Latest civil cases, including unreasonable delay; late amendment; recovery of documents; summary decree; expert witnesses; expenses
Variations and the three year rule
The rule preventing review of an agricultural rent within three years of a previous variation is giving rise to some practical problems
Fruits of their labours
For the first time employees have won a legal action for a share of the benefit accruing to their employer from an invention of theirs
Death of a claim
The first decision on quantum of a claim by a cohabitant for post-death financial provision has gone against the claimant
All part of the game
The Inner House has clarified the test of liability for sporting injuries, but compelling evidence is likely to be needed for a case to succeed
Scottish Solicitors' Discipline Tribunal
Reports of cases relating to Steven Angus Anderson; Kenneth MacQueen Hill; Jacqueline Marie Johnston; James Joseph McGinley and Anne-Marie McGinley; Graeme Crombie Miller; Taco Frank Nolf
Website review
Spotlight on the two main client review legal directories
Book reviews
Review of Evidence: Principles, Policy and Practice (Raitt)
Just whistle while you work
The issues that in-house advisers should be aware of in relation to whistleblowing
Performance review
Concerns remain over the certification process for energy performance certificates, and the monitoring regime
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