January 2006
President's message: the Society commits to working with the Executive this year on the new complaints system, as it already is on legal aid and house purchasers' packs
By giving up complaints handling the Society will restore relations with the profession, but the Executive has a challenge to devise a fair system
Many firms, especially smaller practices, overlook the need for an up to date partnership agreement to help resolve issues that arise on changes in the partnership
The Chancellor's volte-face over self-invested personal pensions, and its effect
December 2005 was a watershed month for Scots family law - but there are still areas where the law has not achieved full separation between church and state
In this issue
- Pressing ahead
- Regulation, 2006 style
- Held to ransom?
- A world turned upside down
- Quiet revolutions
- For supplement read tax
- Why mediation is a bad idea, and other myths
- Advice in a Europe of many notions
- At the touch of a button
- What sort of courts do we want? (And when?)
- KM in practice
- If the bug bites
- Refreshing risk quiz
- The partnership must go on
- First duty to the court
- A difficult birth
- Nuclear power no thanks?
- Due diligence
- Will less mean better?
- Scottish Solicitors' Discipline Tribunal
- Website reviews
- Book reviews
- Back to the future
- Users' IT requirements for ARTL