the magazine : Jun 2007
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FeaturesBar to progressChanges in the Faculty of Advocates, whose service company is allowing individual stables the freedom to develop their own brands, just as an English-style chambers opens Dean urges solicitors to stay with fee schemeOpen letter to members of the Society urging them not to scrap the Scheme for Accounting for and Recovery of Counsel's Fees The Union and the lawOn the 300th anniversary of the 1707 Union, an argument that its legal basis is often misunderstood and that its reconsideration would be far from simple Public and confidentialThe House of Lords decision in the OK! v Hello! case suggests that the common law of confidentiality may become an increasingly powerful means of protection Adult support: a new generationSurvey of the important changes to the adult protection regime, and the Adults with Incapacity Act, made by the Adult Support and Protection (Scotland) Act 2007 |
 
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Articles
Forward steps
President's message: the new President's perspective on what is likely to dominate the agenda during his year in office
Advice deserts and PDSOs
As the Society runs a survey of views on the state of civil legal aid provision in Scotland, it appears that the situation is even more serious than previously thought
Vision 20:20
The Education and Training Committee is starting to make major policy announcements in the wake of its survey, and solicitors need to be aware of what the future might hold
Benevolent Fund: a much valued support
What the Scottish Solicitors Benevolent Fund achieves at present and how it hopes to expand its activities
Termites in the basement
The threat to corporate brands from online IP piracy demands a sophisticated rapid response capability
The value of goodwill
The accountant's approach to the valuation of goodwill in a legal practice, and the factors that influence value
Letters of Engagement Roadshow
Some key issues to be addressed by practices in their terms of engagement, based on a presentation at the Society's recent roadshows
A door almost shut
Latest criminal cases, including jury investigations; evidence; bail offences; sentencing powers; possession; Moorov rule
Lessons in improvements
A Scottish Land Court decision has provided guidance on matters relating to compensation for improvements
Null from the outset?
A recent case has considered what happens when damages have been awarded for a patent infringement and then the patent is invalidated in another forum
The Tevez affair
How West Ham United escaped relegation despite "serious breaches" of FA Premiership rules in signing Tevez and Mascherano
Scottish Solicitors' Discipline Tribunal
Reports relating to Edward Lindsay Acton and George Alexander Wilson; William Michael Lewis
Website reviews
Reviews of sites relating to freedom of information
Book reviews
Reviews of The Licensing (Scotland) Act 2005 (Cummins); Family Law in Scotland (Thomson)
Held in check
Argument that seconding Executive legal advisers to the Scottish Parliament leads to potential conflict of interest, and that scrutiny of Executive bills lacks openness
Possession undisturbed
A new decision on servitude rights in the context of rectification of the Land Register offers comfort to those currently enjoying such rights
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."