May 2011
President's message: despite all the controversies, it has been an extremely rewarding year as President, helped by colleagues in the profession and the Society's staff
The Supreme Court's decision to remove expert witness immunity from suit will create undesirable uncertainty in Scotland, and the law should be urgently reviewed
Registers of Scotland page: corporate plan for 2011-2014; first registration legacy target outcome
The impact on legal practices and solicitors, practising and intending, of the new Diploma and traineeship rules, which have their "Big Bang" after the summer
The Society's new scheme, run in conjunction with the Scottish Paralegal Association, is proving popular but still needs to be more widely known
In this issue
- Experience not to be missed
- Call in the experts
- Planning to deliver
- Stars of the future
- Registered Paralegal Scheme hits the mark
- CPD: a personal quest
- Wha's like us?
- Holyrood: a verdict
- Public ethos
- Power in name only?
- From the Brussels office
- Minority voices
- Law reform update
- Quinn Direct - when to intimate?
- Name your price
- Ask Ash
- Communication breakdown - a major risk issue
- Interested parties
- Support from afar
- Plus ça change?
- Where the state has to stop
- A NEST egg?
- Scottish Solicitors' Discipline Tribunal
- Website review
- Book reviews
- Above board
- Ruaig an Fhèidh
- The price of breach