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The Word of Gold: the power of positive thinking may be a cliché, but it's also a fact

What is a “hackathon”, and why should lawyers be interested? If it has a legal theme, it could mean smart new IT ideas to help your clients

Scottish Paralegal Association column: the winner of the SPA's first Paralegal of the Year award tells of the experience and what it has meant in her place of work

Intellectual property rights is one area of close and growing harmonisation within the EU, that would be disrupted in the event of a vote to leave. What are the implications?

The evolving content and practical application of plans reports for property transactions – and why level 3 reports are not needed nearly as often as they are being requested

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