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Some of the recent risk management-related enquiries from solicitors to the Master Policy brokers

Advice column: I'm worried that my weight could be an issue because it affects my appearance

Has the Supreme Court decision in Tesco v Dundee City Council torpedoed planning’s sequential approach as we know it?

Briefing on Salvesen v Riddell, where the court found s 72(8) and (9) of the Agricultural Holdings (Scotland) Act 2003 to be ultra vires the Scottish Parliament

Essential elements of UK law on groundless threats of intellectual property rights infringement, and steps that can be taken to manage the risk

Problems of getting the contractual balance right in this fact of life in the current corporate deal market

Two charity lawyers' experiences as secondees under the programme developed by the regulator

Address to new solicitors at the admission ceremony on 9 March 2012

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

In these days of consumer choice, it is time to allow solicitors to choose whether the Law Society of Scotland should be their representative body

This month's Law Society of Scotland Council member profile: Frances McKay (Stonehaven, Peterhead & Banff)

Reviews of Domestic Abuse and Scots Law (ed Hughes); Public Inquiries (Beer)

At the end of an eventful year, thanks are due to all at the Society for a huge amount of work, and to solicitors around the country who made me welcome on my visits

Registers of Scotland page: the challenges that wind farm leases present for land registration

Birth of the international conference through which Paisley this month celebrates the 80th anniversary of its greatest claim to legal history

Argument that making it compulsory for solicitors to be members of the Law Society of Scotland, as a body with representative as well as regulatory purposes, is incompatible with the ECHR

Interview with incoming President Austin Lafferty, a self-confessed salesman who is keen to engage the public, and the Society's critics, face to face

Will a forthcoming Court of Session appeal clarify the true scope of RBS v Wilson? Author argues that the decision is being interpreted more broadly than is justified

While the practice of mediation is growing, those who have undertaken mediation training say they find it beneficial in many aspects of their business and personal lives

Latest civil cases, including case management; vexatious litigants; party litigants; interim orders; appeals; expenses; recovery of heritage; family actions

A new decision considers the relevance of the ancestry of matrimonial property to a claim that special circumstances exist justifying unequal sharing

Further restrictions have been introduced on those wishing to come to the UK to work

The effect on pension schemes, especially in the public sector, of switching from the Retail Price Index to the Consumer Price Index for uprating purposes

Outcome of the High Level Conference on Reform of the European Court of Human Rights (fuller article)