July 2022
Nine years ago a young woman toured Scotland in pursuit of her dream career in criminal defence. Now, exhausted and broken, she is abandoning it. We interview Lyndsey Barber on what has driven her out
Traditionally, lawyers have been schooled to mask their emotions, but the law deals with emotional concepts, and clients (and colleagues) respond to those who show human responses
The Bill of Rights Bill purports to retain the human rights contained in the European Convention, but contains practical limitations and makes it harder for those claiming infringement of their rights to obtain redress
As debate continues over the future of Scotland’s three verdicts, a psychologist team report on their research comparing results under different systems, and what might counteract juror misconceptions
Ministers have put a new legal aid offer package on the table, one that leaves a number of questions open. This is the position as the Journal goes to press
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Perspectives
Features
Briefings
- Civil court: Issues on appeal
- Licensing: Minimum pricing – a genuine impact?
- Insolvency: How to admit joint creditor claims
- Tax: windfall and plastic packaging taxes raise stakes
- Immigration: Asylum system overhauled
- Scottish Solicitors' Discipline Tribunal: July 2022
- In-house: In with the stonework
- Property: Living with the Register of Overseas Entities
In practice
- OPG update: July 2022
- Public policy highlights: July 2022
- Gear up for the Scottish Legal Walks
- Disabled solicitor support group proposed
- Risk: Cybercrime – the hybrid worker prey
- Ask Ash: Piling it on
- TRS: time for a trusts trawl
- Know people, know business
- High street and hybrid
- Appreciation: Ian Leslie Shaw Balfour
- The Expert Witness Directory 2022
- Expert witness: case law update
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