October 2022
2022 has seen Addleshaw Goddard and Womble Bond Dickinson mark their fifth anniversaries of moving into Scotland. The Journal reports on their progress, and how their Scottish arms see their identity
Presenting a case at an immigration tribunal differs from appearing in other courts and tribunals, and this feature offers eight tips for best practice when conducting such an appeal
People wanting to add to their income via Airbnb-type lets now have to comply with a new regime to control the growth of such use, involving licensing and perhaps also planning applications
As consultation on its first offence guideline takes place, the Scottish Sentencing Council explains how it hopes to promote consistency and understanding in the sentencing of causing death by driving
Having hosted the ICCA Congress in Edinburgh, the Scottish Arbitration Centre has published its own arbitration rules, making it an institution able to administer international arbitration cases
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:
- 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
- A PDF file, which you can read online and download if you like to print pages.
Regulars
Perspectives
Features
Briefings
- Criminal court: Dealing with delay
- Criminal court: Justiciary Office briefing
- Licensing: The murky world of insolvency
- Insolvency: AiB’s powers under review again
- Tax: A “mini-budget” with big changes
- Immigration: Scaling up for growth
- Scottish Solicitors' Discipline Tribunal
- Property: New homes codes: setting the record straight
- Property: In Scots law, what makes a contract a lease?
- In-house: How to become O shaped