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December 2018

Brexit: looking to the future
A look at what the political declaration on the framework for the future relationship between the European Union and the United Kingdom means for solicitors
Trusting the specialist tribunal
In the first appeal of its kind in Scotland, the Inner House has upheld a tribunal's decision that there were exceptional circumstances not to suspend a doctor guilty of sexually motivated misconduct
The single surrogacy saga
After a lengthy struggle, it seems the UK is about to have a surrogacy law that is non-discriminatory as regards an applicant parent's relationship status. This article describes the journey
Payment notices and strict forms
The Court of Appeal has clarified the law in England & Wales on payments in the construction industry, but is Scottish authority consistent with the decision?
Land registration errors: an owner's view
A householder whose title was affected by an error in the updating of the Ordnance Survey map, describes his experience in seeking to have it corrected
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In this issue

  • Brexit: looking to the future
  • Trusting the specialist tribunal
  • The single surrogacy saga
  • Payment notices and strict forms
  • Land registration errors: an owner's view
  • Reading for pleasure
  • Opinion: Mhairi Snowden
  • Book reviews
  • Profile: Caroline Court
  • President's column
  • Discharges made simpler
  • People on the move
  • Taking on all comers
  • Crowdfunding: changing the legal landscape
  • Salaried but not employed
  • Putting customers at the heart
  • Interviews and the minimum criminal age
  • Data breaches and the damage test
  • Steering away from breakdowns
  • IT: the great leveller
  • Admissible hearsay?
  • Vicarious liability and the vindictive employee
  • Upholding copyright or breaking the web?
  • Smallholdings are different
  • Avoiding bias in sports law disputes
  • Scottish Solicitors' Discipline Tribunal
  • Progress at the expense of accuracy
  • In-house for initiative
  • Have you completed your AML certificate?
  • Public policy highlights
  • A blurred vision
  • Millennials: a new age for managers
  • Into uncharted waters
  • Lost will – what then?
  • 2018: a paralegal view
  • ... and the SPA looks back, and ahead
  • Ask Ash

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