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December 2015

Dealing with mistakes as a trainee solicitor
How to deal with mistakes you make as a trainee (or after qualifying)? We reproduce this article by the Society's senior policy and development manager, which has won praise on social media
Landlords: police or prisoners?
Students on the Aberdeen Law Project explain why the current Immigration Bill raises fears of discrimination becoming rife in the private rented sector
The evolving duty of trust and confidence
Have courts and tribunals gone further than necessary in implying a duty of mutual trust and confidence in a contract of employment? The author believes they have
The nobile officium: still relevant, still useful
What exactly is the nobile officium? Can it still be used? When and how? The author of a new book on the nobile officium encourages practitioners to understand its proper role
Reading for pleasure
This month's selection of leisure reading, chosen by the Journal's book review editor
https://lawware.co.uk/

In this issue

  • Dealing with mistakes as a trainee solicitor
  • Landlords: police or prisoners?
  • The evolving duty of trust and confidence
  • The nobile officium: still relevant, still useful
  • Reading for pleasure
  • Opinion: Davinia Cowden
  • Book reviews
  • Profile
  • President's column
  • One year on
  • People on the move
  • Equal with whom?
  • Sentences by the book
  • Weathering the storm
  • Law reform: securing a result
  • There ought to be a law
  • Reform in the air
  • Taking a stand against slavery
  • Where the bill falls short
  • IP disputes and the corporate veil
  • Bar reports no more
  • Dutee Chand – a marathon for a sprinter
  • Scottish Solicitors Discipline Tribunal
  • Advance notices and letters of obligation
  • Another school round for YFIL
  • Aileen takes up key membership role
  • Criminal practice note alert
  • Law reform roundup
  • My time for nothing
  • Mentoring: the neighbour principle
  • Magic bullets
  • Recognising paralegals
  • Commission on a mission
  • Ask Ash
  • You had your say

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