August 2008
The keynote address to the conference "Delivering Excellence in Scotland's Civil Justice System"; an abridged version appears in the Journal of August 2008
President's message: with economic issues dominating the profession's thoughts, the Society is taking steps to provide advice and support to those in need
Opinion by two advocates that the Faculty's response to the OFT does its members a disservice by defending the cab rank rule and by resisting the use of ABS
How different types of legal firm are coping with the current economic downturn, and how they see their future
An abridged version of the keynote address delivered to the conference on civil justice held in Edinburgh on 20 June
In this issue
- Where have we come from, where to next?
- Shifting sands
- A rank bad rule
- Braving the storm
- Civil justice: where next?
- Title Conditions Act: new registration procedures
- Young lawyers reborn
- Shining some more light...
- Power to the tribunal?
- Piece by piece
- The poor in our midst
- The Society's future role in complaints handling
- Appreciation: Lord Johnston
- Professional Practice Committee
- Facing the lean years
- It's a web 2.0 world
- Questions, questions
- Bare necessities
- Coming on the blind side
- Relocation, relocation
- Worse than the disease?
- Sleeping bounty
- Scottish Solicitors' Discipline Tribunal
- Website reviews
- Book reviews
- Industry standard
- Meet the committee
- What's in a motto?
- Leasing by example
- Good call?
- Home reports - the practice questions