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This month's selection of leisure reading chosen by the Journal's Book Review Editor

Why, with its work on contracting, is the Scottish Legal Aid Board setting out to decide how law firms should be run? The world is different from what it seems to think

Reviews of Prescription and Limitation (Johnston); European Criminal Law: An Integrative Approach (Klip)

This month's Law Society of Scotland Council member profile: the succinct views of West Lothian member Nyree Conway

The past month has been one of significant publications from the Society – on the referendum debate, on legal aid contracting, on vulnerable clients and those with a disability

Registers of Scotland page: multiple applications; electronic documents consultation; 2012 Act branding

As further submissions are published on whether to enforce separate representation of mortgage borrowers and lenders, latest indications are that the SGM vote could be close

Interview with Bruce MacEwen, business adviser to the biggest law firms in the USA and a keynote speaker at the Society's "Law in Scotland" conference in September

Scottish ministers are proposing a new licensing regime for sexual entertainment. How well will it sit with other relevant licensing provisions?

In association with Wright, Johnston & Mackenzie, some key features of the current picture in renewable energy, as the industry attempts to meet ambitious Government targets

The new SLCC time bar rules could have anomalous results, and require additional care in drafting terms of business

The Act allowing the new "employee shareholders" will soon come into effect, but employees will have to consider carefully what they stand to gain in return for rights surrendered

In association with Voice Technologies, how one of Scotland's leading law firms has seen improved working practices with digital dictation and iPhone solutions

Latest criminal cases, including sentencing in rape cases; sentencing guidelines; no case to answer rulings; theft by finding; breach of the peace; football banning orders

A survey of recent cases where the principal carer of a child has sought to relocate, and differences in approach between the Scottish and English courts

Whistleblowing law and practice has had a shakeup recently, but further changes are on the way

To date the legislation on same sex marriage will not produce full equality of pension rights, but a further review is in hand

Reports of cases relating to Duncan Hamish Edward Kerr; John Knox Aitken; John Buchanan

The convener of the Property Law Committee answers the Journal's questions on what the working party reviewing the practice of residential conveyancing was set up to achieve

A new award will be presented at the dinner following this year's annual conference

The Society is launching a career mentoring scheme - what is involved, and what can solicitors get out of being a mentor?

Tip no 7 in the tongue-in-cheek series is: cling to the hourly rate

Continuing the practice area series, some of the most common causes of claim arising in commercial property work, and possible controls to minimise the risk of their occurrence

Advice column: my colleague's angry personal phone calls are distracting me