the magazine : Dec 2003
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FeaturesMoney mattersSolicitors behind the first solicitors’ financial centres planned to open in Scotland explain their motives Clear and present dangerThe background to the Clementi review and the essential underlying issues facing the profession For love or moneyDespite its higher profile south of the border, Scots lawyers involved in pro bono work remain generally reluctant to talk about their good deeds Setting off abroadHow to find the official guidance currently available on service of documents in EU member states, and the language required in each state or region Legacy givingVarious contributions on the role solicitors can play in encouraging charitable giving in legacies |
Articles
Staying awake, actually
President’s message: The year just ending had some good and bad bits, but the profession maintained its standards
Keep sane, if not sober
Some lighthearted tips on how to survive the office Christmas party
Obituary – Sheriff Frank Middleton
Obituary – Sheriff Frank Middleton
Marking out the pitch
How setting out terms of engagement and terms of business assists solicitors to manage clients’ expectations and minimise the risk of claims
A merry spam-free Christmas
Sending unsolicited marketing emails has just become more hazardous due to new regulations designed to restrict the practice
Opening up the bench
Interview with Sir Neil McIntosh, Chairman of the Judicial Appointments Board for Scotland
Victims find a voice
Description of a pilot scheme to allow victims’ accounts of the impact of an offence to be tendered in court prior to sentencing
Round the houses
A review of the current legislative programmes at Westminster and Holyrood
Allowing sexual questioning
Whether applications to allow questioning on a complainer’s sexual history are coming under sufficiently rigorous scrutiny
Scottish Solicitors’ Discipline Tribunal
Report relating to James Ian McAllister Stewart Sloan
Discrimination: widening the net
Religion or belief, and sexual orientation, are the latest subjects to be tackled by anti-discrimination employment legislation
New rights for farm tenants
An outline of the rights just brought into force under the Agricultural Holdings (Scotland) Act 2003
Protection sans frontieres
The Hague Convention on the International Protection of Adults (with incapacity) is ratified in the UK for Scotland only
Football’s financial red card
Football’s governing bodies are claiming the power to impose severe penalties on insolvent clubs
Website reviews
Reviews of solicitors’ property centre websites
Book reviews
Review of Goff and Jones on Restitution
Asbestos safety
The Control of Asbestos at Work Regulations 2002, in force in spring 2004, require careful study by property lawyers
Housing Improvement Task Force
Preparations are advancing for the introduction of the single survey pilot
SDLT: registration requirements
An update from the Registers on how to live with stamp duty land tax
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."