January 2012
This month's selection of leisure reading from the Journal's Book Review Editor
IP litigators at London firm Bristows make a case for the revamped Patents County Court as a forum for settling disputes from any part of the UK
The case why the Court of Session remains at least as good an option as the Patents County Court, with or without the proposed European Unitary Community Patent regime
How will the Forced Marriage etc (Protection and Jurisdiction) (Scotland) Act operate in practice? Some pointers from a family law specialist
Recent research shows a growth in mediation in the construction area, but potential for more – and some marked differences in views between solicitors and clients
In this issue
- Reading for pleasure
- IP: the call of the south
- IP: home advantage
- Forcing: the issues
- Construction disputes: what of mediation?
- The key to effective trainee development
- Opinion
- Book reviews
- Council profile
- President's column
- Register reborn
- Justice at stake
- A matter of life and death
- The future is Brightcrew?
- Safe keeping
- Always something new
- Control switches
- Hard cases
- Whose law rules?
- Service complaint figures
- Scottish Solicitors' Discipline Tribunal
- Mora no more?
- Head in the cloud - feet on the ground
- Crown offers safer mail
- Law reform roundup
- CPD competition
- Don't be tempted!
- Ask Ash
- Preparing for spring