July 2004
President's message: New rules and legislative powers will be a positive move for the Society and the profession
In-house lawyers want a regulatory regime that ensures equal treatment and avoids unnecessary costs and bureaucracy
A survey of the growing range of disputes in Scotland that are moved forward by solicitors' strategic use of the mediation process
First of two articles on the 2004 Budget and Finance Act (tax rates and reliefs, income tax on pre-owned assets)
The responses to the Clementi consultation paper from Scotland and elsewhere, and what happens next on this side of the border
In this issue
- Pushing ahead with a modernising agenda
- Equality for the employed
- Break point
- The devil in the detail
- The work goes on
- Identity crisis
- The lawmen in black
- Degrees of insight
- Image and reality
- Terminal settlement
- The informed client
- Counting down
- Speaking for the firm
- Does the EU Regulation work?
- Power to the people?
- Website reviews
- Book reviews
- New build: getting the loan funds
- Keeper's Corner
- RCIL and community rights