December 2016
The thinking behind the new Fatal Accident Inquiry Rules, made following the 2016 Act, as a consultation runs on the draft rules
As the Apologies (Scotland) Act 2016 comes into force, this article considers what the Act prescribes in order to attract protection, and whether it is likely to make a difference to claimant attitudes
Are commercial lease repairing obligations different for common parts than for premises? Experience suggests that the point should receive more attention at the negotiating stage
A roundup of the responses to the recent online poll, with our observations on some of the points made by those who took the trouble to provide comment
This month's selection of leisure reading, chosen by the Journal's book review editor
In this issue
- FAI Rules: a guide to the consultation
- Saying sorry – is it enough?
- Repairing obligations for common parts
- Journal reader survey feedback report
- Reading for pleasure
- Tax: is your firm paying over the odds?
- Opinion: Judith Robertson
- Book reviews
- Profile
- President's column
- Altered deeds? Mind the rules
- The clouds gather
- Turning points: employment law into 2017
- Policy and the public interest
- Above the minimum
- Where code meets custom
- Child orders: mind the gap
- EU law, a family affair
- People on the move
- Information age?
- The limits of free web access
- Tenant farming: the new guidance
- Insolvency: cross-border clashes
- Foul play on the agency front
- Scottish Solicitors' Discipline Tribunal
- Comm prop and the Holy Grail
- Leisure – the serious side
- New anti-money laundering support
- Law reform roundup
- Brexit: helping to shape the outcome
- Transition to Lockton – your questions answered
- Expertise plus: promoting a sector strength
- Paralegal pointers
- Time to look back – and forward
- Everything comes...
- Ask Ash