March 2017
What process requires to be carried out, and what resources deployed, before a complaint to the Scottish Legal Complaints Commission is judged ineligible? More than might be supposed, the SLCC reveals
Cases seeking statutory payments for failure to follow the rules covering private tenancy deposits have thrown up some interesting and difficult issues, and variations in awards
How is the EU likely to evolve without the UK? The Law Societies' Brussels Office reports on the Commission's white paper setting out various options, and initial reactions from member states
Our report on the second of the Law Society of Scotland's seminars on the key issues arising from the Brexit process, featuring three speakers with a special interest in the human rights aspect
This month's selection of leisure reading, chosen by the Journal's book review editor
In this issue
- Ineligibility – an open and shut case?
- Rent deposits – filling in the gaps
- EU at the crossroads
- Brexit: the human rights dimension
- Reading for pleasure
- Opinion: Andrew Lothian
- Book reviews
- Profile
- President's column
- Digital consultation closes
- People on the move
- Clear sky over summary courts
- Defence submissions
- Bookmark the benchmark
- GDPR: Practical steps for Scottish law firms to prepare
- Heads for business
- Spousal visas and the income rule
- Compete or get beat
- Platform party
- The consequences of excluding consequential loss
- Understanding the other side's position
- Family complexities
- Unitary patent: sunrise or sunset for UK holders?
- Third option
- Land reform, step by step
- Member against member?
- Scottish Solicitors' Discipline Tribunal
- Power of attorney update
- The 2012 Act: a bold step forward?
- Back to university
- Accreditation: calling regulatory lawyers
- Law reform roundup
- Street Law shows the way
- Year of big news
- De-risking email
- Paralegal pointers
- Ask Ash
- Top of the list
- Just your luck?
- Executries and pension overpayments
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