the magazine : Jul 2004
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FeaturesBreak pointA survey of the growing range of disputes in Scotland that are moved forward by solicitors' strategic use of the mediation process The devil in the detailFirst of two articles on the 2004 Budget and Finance Act (tax rates and reliefs, income tax on pre-owned assets) The work goes onThe responses to the Clementi consultation paper from Scotland and elsewhere, and what happens next on this side of the border Identity crisisTwo important family cases (Bellinger v Bellinger, and Re LU and LB) which have each caused some surprise The lawmen in blackProfiles of Scottish solicitors who double as top football referees Degrees of insightThe career benefits from a postgraduate degree course |
Articles
Pushing ahead with a modernising agenda
President's message: New rules and legislative powers will be a positive move for the Society and the profession
Equality for the employed
In-house lawyers want a regulatory regime that ensures equal treatment and avoids unnecessary costs and bureaucracy
Image and reality
How the modern law firm librarian is able to take on a valuable role improving client service and enhancing the firm's fee-eaning potential
Terminal settlement
A survey of the types of process available for settling disputes online and the scope for practising the lawyer's art
The informed client
The challenge of ensuring clients are properly informed before they execute documents, give instructions or otherwise commit themselves to a course of action
Counting down
Third of four articles on preparing for retirement: a checklist of important points to remember over the planning period leading up to retirement
Speaking for the firm
Latest civil cases, including appearance for a firm; joint and several liability; pleadings; expenses; criminal convictions; family reports; supplementary notes; decrees
Does the EU Regulation work?
Despite the EU Insolvency Regulation, a new situation of competing jurisdictional claims has come to light
Power to the people?
Despite much public discussion the prospects for third party rights to appeal planning permissions remain unclear
Website reviews
Reviews of websites of leading law libraries
Book reviews
Review of Maximising Criminal Injuries Compensation
New build: getting the loan funds
Policy adviser to Council of Mortgage Lenders describes an important pending change in releasing loan funds for new build houses
Keeper's Corner
Update from the Registers on quality standards; policy post-feudal abolition; Ordnance maps; Register of Community Interests in Land
RCIL and community rights
How the Register of Community Interests in Land will operate
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."