the magazine : Jan 2004
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FeaturesWho is the family business client?Writer's view that answering this critical but complex question is central to resolving a family business's succession issues Winning your service gameCurrent President of the Family Firm Institute explains what a family business consultant is and how they fit into a professional service firm A near-death experienceOne client's tale of how a lack of understanding by professional advisers almost killed off a family business Managing those tensionsA Family Council, sitting alongside the main board of a family business, can play a vital role in fostering the essential element of trust Full strength DECAFA look at the regulation aspects of the Clementi review What should the new Sentencing Commission do?Writer's view that the Sentencing Commission's first priority must be to develop a strategy to counter public misinformation A brush with the lawProfiles of lawyers who combine their work with an artistic talent |
Articles
Wanted: debaters, and reporters
President's message: The Society needs members to contribute to the debate on the Clementi review; and if they can, to volunteer as reporters to help the new complaints system
Small firms: tackling the profit problem
Small firms are no different to larger firms when it comes to the essentials of financial health
The truth and the whole truth
Suggestd ways of conducting staff surveys to improve motivation
See, hear, speak no html
The Disability Discrimination Act contains potential pitfalls for the website designer
Looking back, going forward
A review of the risk and risk management issues considered over the past year and suggested new year's resolutions to address these in risk management planning for the forthcoming year
Inhibition on the dependence lives on
Latest civil cases, including diligence on the dependence; decree in absence; options hearings; mortgage payments and res judicata; tenders
Framework for debt payment takes shape
Rules covering debt arrangement schemes, and reforms to personal insolvency, are out for consultation
Wake up to disability
Why the licensed trade needs to prepare for the next phase of the Disability Discrimination Act
Mind the gap
The equal pay gap is proving difficult to close but further measures to assist the disadvantaged employee are coming into force
The new dance called "Electricity"
The Crofting Acts need to be simplified if landlords and tenants are to benefit from windfarming payouts
Website reviews
Reviews of online legal advice and information providers
Book reviews
Review of Company Law (Greens Concise Scots Law)
Conveyancing - not much change in 400 years
The work of the Society's Conveyancing Committee
Ironing out settlements and SDLT
Undertakings which may be given at settlement in relation to stamp duty land tax which do not impact on the classic letter of obligation
The new law of real burdens
First of six-part article on the law of real burdens post-feudal abolition
Housing Improvement Task Force
The Single Survey Steering Group has considered the distribution of the survey to prospective purchasers, its content and hidden defects insurance
Opening the query lines
Update from the Registers on stamp duty land tax; market research; house price trends and an online information service
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."