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Family briefing: a new Court of Session decision illustrates the court's approach to the sometimes complex issue of whether farm lands are included in matrimonial property

Human rights briefing: human rights have an important role in professional regulation, but it is important to view them in the context of the whole procedural steps available

Pensions briefing: a roundup of issues that trustees and employers should be addressing, some against deadline dates, as pensions legislation continues to evolve

Report relating to Murray Alexander McAuley

The award-winning legal team for the company responsible for the whole of Scotland's water supplies has to be ready for diverse challenges, as this month's in-house profile reveals

The Crown Office & Procurator Fiscal Service draws attention to a valuable training resource that might help improve confidence in the justice system

Recent work of the Society's Law Reform department, including lobbying proposals; English Votes for English Laws; rights of the child; smoking in cars

Recent developments in the EU: European small claims procedure

The Word of Gold: firms with the confidence and discipline to offer clients real choice in how they pay will reap rich rewards

Current risk management priorities: reports suggest property transactions are being targeted by cyber criminals, and exercising break options continues to be an area of risk for the profession

Advice column: is it worth leaving because of a poor line manager?

Professional Practice summary of the main features of the court reforms, and their timing

Reflections from the Commission: an update on some changes to the Scottish Legal Complaints Commission's Rules to support the new online complaint form

Legally IT: how to conduct a technology audit yourself, thereby keeping the process, and the results, internal to your firm

A high level of commitment to pro bono has been found by the Society's recent survey

Property briefing: the Community Empowerment (Scotland) Act 2015 embodies some high ideals, but what rights? These are in fact quite extensive, even if their practical application remains to be clarified

Are solicitors paying enough attention to the penal provisions of competition law, as affecting their own businesses?

Support agencies, along with the prosecution service, are attempting to raise awareness of a defence to certain offences regularly charged against refugees

What is the justification for criminalising virtual child pornography? The “indirect harm” approach in the UK is contrasted with the USA's protection of free speech

As the Society runs a survey of views on what trainees should be paid, this blog comments on the wide range of opinions it regularly hears

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

Even within their limitations, student law clinics can be developed to play a role in widening access to justice in its broader sense, for example through legal education projects or public interest litigation

Review of The Milosevic Trial – an autopsy (ed Waters)

This month we spotlight former Council member and current convener of the Criminal Law Committee, Elgin solicitor Ian Cruickshank