May 2007
Law Society of Scotland's inside account of the attempts to win a better deal on civil legal aid
President's message: the Society is now pursuing initiatives which will shape it, and the profession, for many years to come
Opinion that the Executive's further proposals for a Judiciary (Scotland) Bill still lack understanding of the concept of judicial independence, and threaten it
How the draft operating model for the Scottish Legal Complaints Commission is being shaped, and how the profession can prepare by defining its own standards
Cross border mergers in the wake of the Golds-Irwin Mitchell merger: do they represent an English takeover, or a new opportunity for Scots firms?
In this issue
- Block fees: the story behind the changes
- Strategic advance
- Court plans with little appeal
- Under commission
- Two into one can go
- Ten years of labour
- Career v Family
- Monitor - at your own risk
- Raising the standard
- Society shapes the changes
- Society shapes the changes (1)
- Money laundering to change again
- Border and Immigration Agency launches
- Dealing positively with client concerns
- From the Brussels office
- Winning ways
- Toothless against spam?
- Risk reinvented
- Technical but essential
- Pension sharing tips on divorce
- In pursuit of simplicity
- In pursuit of simplicity (1)
- First in the class
- Scottish Solicitors' Discipline Tribunal
- Website reviews
- Book reviews
- On the road
- Access or excess?
- Alterations are no 2 problem
- ARTL: upgrade now for security
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