December 2006
A row over "Star Wars" costumes illustrates the need to protect all intellectual property rights in written agreements
President's message: As work on the Legal Profession Bill enters a new phase, sellers' surveys and developments in England & Wales have also been engaging the Society
Opinion that it is time to split the Lord Advocate's roles of government adviser and head of the prosecution service, and reform the method of appointment
Research into the legal aid fixed payment scheme for summary criminal cases reveals some unexpected effects on firms' incomes and the overall legal aid bill
A survey of the requirements for qualification as a solicitor in some other jurisdictions, as the Society consults on the future for Scotland
In this issue
- Costume Wars: copyright storm over the troopers
- The end of the beginning
- Public appointment: public interest
- Fixed payments: a real impact?
- Training: the bigger picture
- Contact breakers
- Abuse in the system
- Stirring up interest
- Twin-tracking law reform
- Hung out to dry
- Fraud: the client's perspective
- The proof is in the podding
- How did you do?
- Old friends revisited
- A reprieve for landlords?
- Smell of success
- There's no case like Rome
- Hurt in the pocket
- Flotation and the trustee
- Scottish Solicitors' Discipline Tribunal
- Website reviews
- Book reviews
- Risk and the in-house lawyer
- The CML Handbook revised
- Ten things you should know about SDLT
- All change at the Registers
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