the magazine : Jun 2008
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FeaturesThe future: build your ownReport of Professor Richard Susskind's keynote address to the Society's conference on the legal profession in five years' time: the best way is to invent your own future Care - a worry?An overview of questions that regularly arise relating to planning for possible charges under the personal care scheme Dirty money?A forensic accountant outlines the Crown's approach to confiscation proceedings on both sides of the border, and the role his profession can play for the defence Ready and willingRegisters of Scotland is ready to take up the challenge, if asked, of the Register of Crofts, as it also prepares to maintain the new Register of SSSIs Let the children comeIntroducing cl@n childlaw, a new type of law centre that aims to achieve practical delivery of legal advice and access to justice for children and young people Charging the banksThe decision in the first round of the bank charges test case brought by the OFT: who won on which point, and what happens next Hospital passThe importance of giving proper advice at the outset to the client in a medical negligence claim, and of taking the correct initial steps Paper treasureHow a chance find in an executry led to an important addition to the national archives |
Articles
Shaping your future
President's message: The challenge at conference was to keep pace with change; the AGM business structures vote signals a new phase of work to make it happen
No place for secrecy
Opinion that the system for appointment as Queen's Counsel in Scotland is flawed in leaving the power of selection to one person and in being shrouded in secrecy
Big business
Report of this year's AGM of the Society, which covered an unusual number of weighty matters concerning the profession, not only the ABS debate
Talk of the towns
A call has gone out to solicitors in rural practices to join forces in order to attract new recruits to work outside the cities
Time to sell up?
Author tells of the issues that arose when he decided to leave the law without having done much forward planning - and his advice with the benefit of hindsight (1 of 2)
A place to make amends
Review of the myspace arbitral decision, and whether Nominet's dispute resolution procedure is suited to settling complex domain name disputes
It ain't what you say...
Whether the legal profession can learn good risk management practice from other sectors - notably oil and gas, which had to learn from the Piper Alpha disaster
When to take the stand
Latest criminal cases, including Anderson appeals; Moorov rule; separation of charges; sentencing; jury directions; public interest immunity
Townships revived
The Shucksmith Report has fulfilled its brief to think radically in proposing measures to support crofters and crofting
A paler shade of right
Royalty shares in classic hit recordings can be lost through inaction, the appeal court has ruled
Six + five = ?
Football's FIFA wants to revisit the subject of player quotas, despite the questions raised by EU law
Scottish Solicitors' Discipline Tribunal
Reports relating to Iain Stuart Catto; Stuart Fraser Wilson; Alexander Ritchie Robertson
Website reviews
Review of the CaseCheck service of case summaries with links and commentaries
Book reviews
Review of Environment (Stair Memorial Encyclopaedia reissue)
In the public gaze
Author outlines the likely future shape of public sector external scrutiny in light of the government response to his review published in autumn 2007
Contested call
Author takes issue with the parliamentary committee decision that calling in the Donald Trump golf development application after the verbal decision was competent
Rules of engagement
Director of Planning Aid for Scotland emphasises the benefits to be gained from the principle of community engagement enshrined in the new planning legislation
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."