Council profile
Lynda Towers
Lynda Towers has been co-opted to Council for a three-year term on her election to the role of chair of the In-house Lawyers Group. Lynda, who qualified as a solicitor in 1981, has worked in the Government Legal Service for Scotland and is currently solicitor to the Scottish Parliament. She has sat on the ILG committee since 2002, and also sits on the Society’s Law Reform Committee. Her predecessor as ILG chair, Janet Hood, stepped down at last month’s AGM after 16 years’ involvement with the ILG but remains on Council having recently been elected as a member for the Dundee constituency.
Paul Matthews
Dumfries solicitor Paul Matthews is joining Council, filling the vacancy to represent the constituency of Dumfries, Kirkcudbright and Stranraer. Admitted as a solicitor in 1986, Paul is a resident partner in the Dumfries office of A B & A Mtthews, which has offices in Dumfries, Newton Stewart and Stranraer.
Apologies to Paul’s brother Peter Matthews, omitted from the September Council members feature
In this issue
- The discount rate debate
- Weighted scales
- "Mere squatters"?
- Extended, modernised and improved?
- Reading for pleasure
- Opinion column: Andrew Todd
- Book reviews
- Council profile
- President's column
- Crofting Register is all set to go live
- Ends of justice?
- A debt lifeline?
- Criminal injuries in the UK - how to make a claim
- LPOs: the next level of help
- The age of equality
- Human rights: a call to action
- Screen test
- Further, faster, smarter
- Drop dead date
- Shares for rights
- Vive la difference?
- Automatic? For employers, not quite
- Scottish Solicitors' Discipline Tribunal
- All change at ILG
- Factoring in good practice
- Worker or partner... what's the difference?
- Ask Ash
- Service game
- Medical law: committee appeal
- Law reform roundup
- Reality checks
- Business radar
- From the Brussels office