December 2012
The legal obstacles to separated siblings seeking contact with each other: something for the Scottish Government to act on as part of the promised bill on children’s rights
The emergence of a legal rights claim from an unexpected source can cause serious difficulties for executry practitioners and their clients. What steps might one take?
One lawyer's experience in setting up an online legal services business through the “E-Spark” scheme to support entrepreneurs
The results of, and some thoughts prompted by, the survey of In-house Lawyers Group members ahead of this year’s annual conference, as seen by the ILG vice chair
An Inner House decision prompts a discussion of the duties that may be owed by a driver being overtaken
In this issue
- Barriers to sibling contact
- Legal rights, second families and siblingship
- "I'm a chicklet and I live in a hatchery"
- And our survey says...
- No overtaking?
- Reading for pleasure
- Opinion column: Martin Morrow
- Book reviews
- Council profile
- President's column
- 2012: new starts, and challenges
- Independence before the law
- Who do you think they are?
- The expert approach
- Is all publicity good publicity?
- Turning point?
- Young and guilty
- Doubly secure
- Forced marriage: an update
- New age, new image
- A security loophole
- Quit while you're ahead
- When threats are enough
- Practice ground
- Mergers: keeping people onside
- Law reform roundup
- PI Guidelines: new edition
- Ask Ash
- Business radar