the magazine : Feb 2002
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Articles
Life on the inside
Author’s experience of working on secondment to the HR department at Guinness UDV
Reviewing trainee’s progress
Quarterly performance meetings to assess a trainee’s development are an essential component of the new training regime
Managing conflict constructively
Engage in inter-office battles only when positive and necessary
Scottish Executive Housing Improvement Task Force
This is a laudable policy initiative but the Conveyancing Committee want to see more input by the profession
Interview: Christine Graham
Interview with Christine Graham, Convener of the Scottish Parliament’s Justice 1 Committee
Website reviews
Review of one mental health site and three for asylum and immigration
Court of review or court of appeal?
Latest criminal cases, on statements, trials within a trial, fairness, nobile officium, warrants, appeals, road traffic and human rights
When a ‘diary system’ isn’t a system
How the experience here of missed time limits compares with other jurisdictions; recommended approach to avoiding claims
Scottish Solicitors’ Discipline Tribunal
Reports relating to Paul Robert Anderson; Donald Stewart Duncan
Electronic signatures – who needs them?
Electronic signatures are coming and nearly every practitioner will need one
Jurisdiction, recognition and enforcement
Abstract: An explanation of pending comprehensive reform of Community law rules on jurisdiction of civil courts and recognition and enforcement of judgments
Book reviews
Review of Solicitors’ Guide to Good Management
From the Library>
The name game: rebranding legal firms
"Every firm's name is its brand ... It may be that more should be aiming to be punchier and more easily remembered even where a generic type brand is not possible or appropriate."