Paralegal pointers
Changes follow AGM
The Scottish Paralegal Association held its AGM on Saturday 9 April. Office bearers elected were: President, Jacqueline Burns; Vice President, Nicola Heggie; treasurer: Sandra Reid; secretary, Carol McQuillan.
Re-elected committee members were Catherine Muir and Graeme McClumpha, joined by new members Paul Kirkwood, Alison Smith, Anne McDowall and Jenny Livingstone.
Changes to the constitution were agreed, altering the SPA’s registered address to c/o Law Society of Scotland, Atria One, 144 Morrison Street, Edinburgh EH3 8EX (our own Legal Post Box is LP-3, Bridge of Allan); and providing that the committee shall in future comprise a minimum rather than a maximum of eight members.
CPD call
The SPA is delighted to be able to offer free verifiable CPD to all members, provided there are sufficient numbers willing to attend. If this is of interest to you, please drop us an email at info@scottish-paralegal.org.uk to confirm the domain you are working in, your location and whether you would prefer the seminar to be during office hours or early evening. We have several agencies who have agreed to provide seminars to us, and if there is sufficient interest we will organise an event to suit.
If you have any particular topic that is of interest to you for CPD, please tell us and we will do our best to get a speaker on board with us.
If you would not be interested in any of the above, could you drop us a short email to let us know why and also where you do your own CPD.
The Association is working for you and we do need you to tell us what we can do for you.
In this issue
- Sewel in statute: competence or confusion?
- Data protection rewritten
- When divorce and maintenance collide
- Child cases: who decides?
- Deliver us from evil: the totalitarian temptation
- Reading for pleasure
- Opinion: Tom Marshall
- Book reviews
- Profile
- President's column
- Certainty guaranteed with DPA service
- People on the move
- A hard race well won
- EU referendum: choice for a better future
- Of chance and change
- Land reform: back, and here to stay
- Frameworks dismantled
- Charity advice: the full picture
- Lifting the lid on lives
- A judgment on judgments
- Pay: private or transparent?
- Horses make a clean break
- Trustees – damned either way?
- Scottish Solicitors' Discipline Tribunal
- Silverburn: sold on the right to buy
- Career building
- Oops – lost attorneys
- Paralegal pointers
- How will my family know what assets I have?
- Law reform roundup
- Gender pay: squeezing the gap
- The trend is good
- Ask Ash
- Success is in store