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  5. August 2009

August 2009

Planning's big day
Monday 3 August 2009 sees most of the changes to the development management system come into force
Hair alcohol tests: tackling the root of the problem
Analysis of hair samples is becoming the preferred method of tracing an individual's history of alcohol consumption
Ask not...
President's message: much of this month's theme is Government – and what solicitors can do for it, as well as what it can do for solicitors
Trainee recruitment must be more open
A mature would-be entrant to the profession believes that current methods of recruiting trainees are often neither open nor fair
Honest talking
A willingness on both sides to engage in open and informed debate is the key to successful relations between the profession and the media
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In this issue

  • Planning's big day
  • Hair alcohol tests: tackling the root of the problem
  • Ask not...
  • Trainee recruitment must be more open
  • Honest talking
  • Out, but not down
  • A budget to save the world?
  • Uncertain rights
  • Copycats: nine lives used up?
  • A break from illness?
  • On the record
  • From the Brussels Office
  • Member support: the next level
  • Legal practice reinvented
  • Beat the pandemic
  • Ask Ash
  • A vintage problem?
  • Final is still final
  • Blacklisting blacklists
  • A better fitting kilt
  • Proper restraint
  • Scottish Solicitors' Discipline Tribunal
  • Website review
  • Book reviews
  • Knowledge rules OK?
  • Lifting the stones
  • Legitimate finding or mortgage fraud?
  • Islamic finance: a Scottish lead?
  • Environmental Law Centre: taking issues

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