the magazine : Nov 2005
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FeaturesSteps forwardMain findings of the Law Society of Scotland/Equal Opportunities Commission survey of women in the legal profession in Scotland A better way to workIntroducingthe Law Society of Scotland's three year Equality and Diversity Strategy: a means of providing guidance to the profession as well as a blueprint for the Society Combatting the cross-border criminalHow judicial procedures are being streamlined to permit the more effective arrest and prosecution of suspects across national frontiers within the EU Seen to be fair?Author's concerns over the composition of the new mental health tribunals and over a procedural requirement to produce any psychiatric reports obtained The lobbying gameThe growth of lawyers using lobbying skills in the legislative process and some of the mechanics of lobbying A favoured model?The wide-ranging powers of the proposed Commission to regulate officers of court indicate the Scottish Executive's preferred approach to regulation |
 
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Articles
Changing perceptions
President's message: October provided a number of new insights for the President - and for the profession as well
A need undiminished
Opinion by the Convenor of the Scottish Legal Action Group that at its 30th birthday the Group's reforming agenda remains as pressing as ever
A grand day out
Chairman of the Society's Nothing But The Net conference 2005 reports on how the conference is evolving in response to feeedback
A window of opportunity
The hidden factors that help make a favourable impression on a client at first meeting
Don't fall at the final hurdle
Risk management issues in relation to matters arising post-completion
Practice guideline: form of accounts and taxation
Guideline approved by the Professional Practice Committee, in the same terms as chapter 2 in the former Table of Fees
Advice for All: the Society's response
Summary of the Access to Justice Committee's response to the Scottish Executive's consultation on legal aid
Matter for debate
Latest civil cases, including diligence on the dependence; pleas in law; debates; count, reckoning and payment; appeals; family actions
Divorcing the divorced
A recent Inner House decision has upheld a Scottish divorce decree despite the original court having been in error as to whether the parties had still been married
Uncommon commencement dates
Significant coming dates that mark changes in employment law, despite the government's intention of introducing common commencement dates
Scottish Solicitors' Discipline Tribunal
Reports relating to Ian Maclachlan Allan; David Alexander Symington; Manus Gerard Tolland; Stuart Fraser Wilson
Website review
Websites offering guidance on the new legal regime covering additional support needs in learning
Book reviews
Reviews of Corporate Insolvency (St Clair and Drummond Young), Receivership in Scotland (Greene and Fletcher), L is for Law: Studying Scots Law (MacQueen)
Still thumbs down
Author's continuing objections to the single survey, in response to Professor Lorne Crerar's article supporting it
Search and copy fees changing
Note setting out the new fees to be charged by the Registers from 28 November for searching and copying
Common currency
The structure and purpose of the form of certificate of title published by the Property Standardisation Group
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."