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In a “TED talk” delivered at TEDxGlasgow on legal technology, a trainee solicitor with programming skills tells clients to challenge their lawyers on whether they are making the best use of legal IT

Cases where the court has to decide whether to transfer care proceedings to another EU member state are becoming more common in England, and Scots lawyers should be ready too

This month's selection of leisure reading, chosen by the Journal's book review editor

The Supreme Court ruling in PJS not only highlights the difficult balance between rights to privacy and freedom of expression, but also further underpins the prospect of actions for breach of privacy

Reviews of Adult Protection and the Law (Smith and Young); Common Law and Feudal Society in Medieval Scotland (MacQueen)

Ayla Skene, solicitor at Pinsent Masons, Glasgow, has been co-opted as new lawyers’ representative on Council

The nerves on taking up office are like those on starting a traineeship, but the preparation as Vice President and the support of our talented Past President will make facing the challenges easier

Registers of Scotland page: advances in digital services; voluntary registration

Collected news of new appointments and practice changes

How a software tool can apply modern risk analysis techniques to deliver projections on the prospects of settling an action at a given figure that commercial clients will understand

Have attitudes to gender diversity truly changed, or are there still hurdles to surmount? What is the best way forward? A debate last month hosted by the Society threw up many points to consider

Public authorities in Scotland, and tenderers, have to get to grips not only with a new regime for Procurement Directive contracts, but also with a parallel regime for some contracts of lower value

Are high street firms too dependent on executry work continuing? Are there threats in the market place, and how should practices respond? Our author is watching the signs

Professional support lawyers are relatively few in Scotland, but the role is becoming a rewarding and challenging career in its own right, with a potential that deserves wider recognition by employers

What should professional disciplinary sanctions attempt to achieve? The answer can vary, as emerged at a round table held by the SLCC prior to finalising its guidance on achieving consistency

Latest criminal cases, including sufficiency of evidence (DNA and other cases); Moorov rule; adjournment of jury trials; forfeiture of vehicles; Crown disclosure

Corporate briefing: Scottish and English courts have reached conflicting decisions over the consequences of a company being dissolved and then restored to the register, as respects its former property

Agriculture briefing: a note on the guidance produced to date by the Interim Adviser on Tenant Farming, much of which may form the basis for codes to be made under the Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2016

IP briefing: a new judgment on what constitutes legitimate use of clips of sporting highlights has upheld the rights of the copyright holders

Sport briefing: findings of doping violations on retesting of samples from past events present difficult issues, on both the competitive and the commercial fronts, for the athletes concerned

Reports of cases relating to Michael Chapman; Michael Thomas McSherry; Gerard Tierney

Education briefing: was it discrimination for a local authority to refuse to fund an additional year’s special education for a disabled pupil who required it to achieve post-school transition?

Scottish Paralegal Association column: Annual Conference report

A career as a Government lawyer and then Solicitor to the Scottish Parliament has given this month’s in-house interviewee a unique set of experiences in the public service