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What management CPD can do for solicitors and their firms

Advice based on an opinion for the Society by the Dean of Faculty, on some of the most frequently asked questions relating to ownership of files

Various points concerning professional indemnity insurance which raise risk management issues

EU round up featuring the Senator Lines case on legal privilege for in-house counsel; also justice and home affairs; company law; consumers

Reviews of Unreported Property Law cases from the Sheriff Courts; Style Writs for the Sheriff Court

Terrorism is anathema to all who believe the rule of law is sacred – a response to the events of 11 September 2001

How the company law review might impact on directors’ duties and remuneration

Employment law update on issues including unfair dismissal and new employment tribunal rules

Argument that Scotland’s land registration process is in danger of being made to look cumbersome by the streamlined English approach

Argument that behind the fine rhetoric, Scotland’s judicial appointments process remains shrouded in secrecy

Head of Commission for Racial Equality in Scotland interviews Law Society of Scotland’s Chief Executive on issues of diversity and the Race Relations Act

How the new commercial procedures in Glasgow Sheriff Court are working and whether they further herald the age of the specialist sheriff

The business implications for solicitors as the Data Protection Act comes into substantially full force and effect

Latest civil cases, including citation; jurisdiction; interdict; arrestment; res judicata; witness lists; recovery of documents; abandonment; judgment; expenses

The risks associated with devious and dishonest clients, and how employees and former employees are protected under the Master Policy

The aims and content of the PCC, one element of the new training regime

Review of Sport and the Law: the Scots Perspective

As a solicitor in rural practice, the President is acutely aware of the difficulties in recruiting newly qualified solicitors

Considers the sexual character provisions in the Sexual Offences (Procedure and Evidence) (Scotland) Bill and how the English case R v A might inform debate

Rural firms are struggling to attract young solicitors to fill assistant level positions, sparking fears of a manpower shortage in outlying firms

The second part of a review of the role of the sheriff in firearms appeals

Roundup of insolvency issues, including proposals for reform of bankruptcy and continuing difficulties with company voluntary arrangements

Latest criminal cases, including road traffic; plagium; culpable homicide; attempts; and various procedural matters

Survey of views on what impact the Act has had in its first year of operation