Skip to content
Law Society of Scotland
Search
Find a Solicitor
Contact us
About us
Sign in
Search
Find a Solicitor
Contact us
About us
Sign in
  • For members

    • For members

    • CPD & Training

    • Membership and fees

    • Rules and guidance

    • Regulation and compliance

    • Journal

    • Business support

    • Career growth

    • Member benefits

    • Professional support

    • Lawscot Wellbeing

    • Lawscot Sustainability

  • News and events

    • News and events

    • Law Society news

    • Blogs & opinions

    • CPD & Training

    • Events

  • Qualifying and education

    • Qualifying and education

    • Qualifying as a Scottish solicitor

    • Career support and advice

    • Our work with schools

    • Lawscot Foundation

    • Funding your education

    • Social mobility

  • Research and policy

    • Research and policy

    • Research

    • Influencing the law and policy

    • Equality and diversity

    • Our international work

    • Legal Services Review

    • Meet the Policy team

  • For the public

    • For the public

    • What solicitors can do for you

    • Making a complaint

    • Client protection

    • Find a Solicitor

    • Frequently asked questions

    • Your Scottish solicitor

  • About us

    • About us

    • Contact us

    • Who we are

    • Our strategy, reports and plans

    • Help and advice

    • Our standards

    • Work with us

    • Our logo and branding

    • Equality and diversity

  1. Home
  2. For members
  3. Journal Archive
  4. Issues
  5. March 2022

March 2022

Forward to the office
The latest law firm offices are said to be designed to support new ways of working. But what does that mean? We report on how office design now involves more than just doing away with a few partitions
Fair compensation?
Is further reform needed to the law on damages for personal injury? In a new discussion paper the Scottish Law Commission asks whether previous statutory changes need bringing up to date
Pause for thought
Why issues arise for employers concerning women with symptoms of the menopause, and how best to handle such matters in the workplace
Steven Hill: accredited technologist
In association with Denovo: The company's operations director speaks about his work and what accredited legal technologist status means to him
FoI: rights needing a new law
Scotland’s freedom of information law badly needs brought up to date, claims the Campaign for Freedom of Information in Scotland, which has drafted a bill now out to public comment

For ease of reading on the device of your choice, you can also access this issue of the Journal, presented in its usual page layout, in two formats:

  1. An interactive online version, hosted on the PageSuite service, which is published in HTML5 which means it works well on both iOS and Android devices; and
  2. A PDF file, which you can read online and download if you like to print pages.
https://lawware.co.uk/

Regulars

  • People on the move: March 2022
  • Book reviews: March 2022
  • Reading for pleasure: March 2022

Perspectives

  • Opinion: Martin O'Brien
  • President's column: March 2022
  • Editorial: International order
  • Viewpoints: Endless arrear?
  • Profile: Elaine MacGlone

Features

  • Forward to the office
  • Fair compensation?
  • Pause for thought
  • FoI: rights needing a new law
  • Prepare for the great tax catch-up

Briefings

  • Civil court: Redaction – completing the picture
  • Corporate: Pandemic procurement: proper preferences?
  • Intellectual property: NFTs and IP rights
  • Agriculture: latest from the Land Court
  • Succession: Changes to reporting for excepted estates
  • Sport: Fan pressure and questions of morality
  • Property: New code for new homes
  • In-house: Democracy behind the scenes

In practice

  • Society Fellows speak out for legal aid
  • Strategy session draws a crowd
  • Ask Ash: Back to the old ways?
  • AML: time for a review, but how?
  • Cryptocurrency? No thank you
  • Going phishing
  • Race: time to be open
  • The Eternal Optimist: IT for dummies

Online exclusive

  • Survivorship and the insolvent estate
  • Cybersecurity actions for 2022
  • Paid leave and backdated claims
  • Exploring imposter syndrome in the legal profession

In this issue

  • Steven Hill: accredited technologist
  • EOTs: a business winner
  • "It's Game On!", law firms say
  • How workflow automation can improve your operations

Recent Issues

Dec 2023
Nov 2023
Oct 2023
Sept 2023
Search the archive

Additional

Law Society of Scotland
Atria One, 144 Morrison Street
Edinburgh
EH3 8EX
If you’re looking for a solicitor, visit FindaSolicitor.scot
T: +44(0) 131 226 7411
E: lawscot@lawscot.org.uk
About us
  • Contact us
  • Who we are
  • Strategy reports plans
  • Help and advice
  • Our standards
  • Work with us
Useful links
  • Find a Solicitor
  • Sign in
  • CPD & Training
  • Rules and guidance
  • Website terms and conditions
Law Society of Scotland | © 2025
Made by Gecko Agency Limited