November 2020
Criminal legal aid lawyers' financial pressures are so acute that the Society has appealed for emergency Government support. Has the sector a future? New Generation Lawyers has a mission to secure one
The Society introduces its new strategy for 2020-22, deliberately targeting the shorter-term challenges as the profession, and the economy, seeks to recover from the effects of COVID-19
Starting a new job during COVID-19 restrictions is an unplanned but necessary experience for many. Erin Grant, whose first day met the arrival of lockdown, offers a survival guide
Part of the Community Enterprise Village at
Kilmarnock Railway Station, the family and
criminal practice of Tony Bone Legal is an element
of a possible model for intervention services elsewhere
It’s not enough to devise a great IT system – it has to work with everyone else’s. The authors provide law firm and SCTS insight on how collaboration on Civil Online overcame the barriers to adoption
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Regulars
Perspectives
Features
Briefings
- Civil court: keeping justice on the rails
- Employment: Time for a redundancy refresher
- Family: Watch your step with behaviour-based divorce
- Human rights: Inner House message in privacy group chat
- Pensions: The future – the regulator's blueprint
- Scottish Solicitors' Discipline Tribunal
- Crofting law reform: time to act
- In-house, online and in demand
In practice
- Paralegals: 10 years of recognition
- Ask Ash: Too busy, but still insecure
- Property pitfalls: problematic but preventable
- The Word of Gold: Count us out
- Prepare for the tax due date
- The Eternal Optimist: Help to turn the corner
- Appreciation: Ross Paton
- Appreciation: Claire Reilly (Robertson)
- Tenancies succession reminder