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Collected news of Scottish legal appointments and practice changes

In association with Rosebery's: Our valuation team have handled many fine works from notable collections in recent times

In association with Lyon & Turnbull: 2021 saw the firm achieve three separate world records for particular categories in sales undertaken

In association with Ramsay Cornish: How research and specialist knowledge can help secure substantial prices at auction

Latest civil cases, including remote proofs; nobile officium; approbate and reprobate; count, reckoning and payment; prescription; several defenders; pleadings; appeals; judicial expenses

The latest court decision arising from the Rangers FC insolvency is a rare Scottish example of a claim against administrators for breach of duty – and one leading to an award

As we attempt to foresee the COVID-influenced shape of things in 2022, already in the pipeline are issues around initially temporary arrangements that have developed becoming permanent

In its draft Fourth National Planning Framework the Scottish Government sets out the key policies for where and how Scotland should develop over the next two decades and more

The Court of Appeal has ruled that simply arriving in the UK in order to claim asylum is not illegal, but that could be about to change under the Nationality and Borders Bill

Reports relating to John Harris Muir; Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh

Some impressions of the Society, and thoughts on taking up the CEO role

Employees are increasingly likely to consider moving on, and employers should consider “structured flexibility” in trying to make working arrangements as attractive as possible, says in her first quarterly column for the Journal

The author, recently retired from practice and now an adviser on practice management and risk issues who carries out risk audits for Lockton, explains how to avoid some of the issues he has found

The Society is revising its guidance on qualified electronic signatures, and has created a panel of providers to help solicitors choose the most suitable for their needs

A note from the Society’s Property Law Committee on when electronic signing of missives would be inappropriate, for the time being at least

Advice column: An opposing solicitor is trying to intimidate me

Recent judicial suggestions that an employee’s contract is subject to the implied term that any disciplinary process will be conducted fairly, sound reasonable but create a new risk for employers

The Outer House decision in Dragados (UK) v DC Eikefet Aggregates is to be welcomed, as restating the importance of the rule excluding pre-contract negotiations in settling questions of construction

Experience of representing injured cyclists following road traffic collisions suggests that police and local authorities are failing to act in relation to certain accident blackspots

Review of European Criminal Law: An Integrative Approach (Klip)

The January 2022 selection of leisure reading, chosen by the Journal's book review editor

Thoughts on where we are with COVID, and other matters likely to occupy the profession in 2022

Success fees have been legalised in statute, but remain inherently something of an anomaly

A recent case provides lessons for the construction sector concerning the enforcement of adjudicators’ decisions by companies in liquidation