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

Tribute to David John McNeil, property lawyer and former Law Society of Scotland President, born 24 March 1937; died 25 January 2012

Organisers of the project to increase public understanding of the Scottish courts, explain how Open Justice Week will work

This month's Law Society of Scotland Council member profile: Jackie McRae (new lawyers)

Reviews of Social Work Law in Scotland (Guthrie); Conveyancing (Gretton and Reid)

The referendum has taken the headlines this past month, but important issues have also had to be addressed on regulation, and on lender panels

Registers page: changes to customer service centres; training accreditation; rejection fees

The debate over how the profession should respond to mortgage lenders' solicitor panel moves, and whether it is time to require separate representation of borrowers and lenders

Despite an overall average increase in partner profits in the 2011 Cost of Time Survey, many firms are still facing very tough times

Cared-for people, and their carers and advisers, will have to come to terms with the challenges of personal choice under pending Scottish Government legislative plans

Significant changes have been taking place within the officers of court profession, which now boasts a compulsory membership body and a new fee structure

Current developments in the legal background to the independence referendum debate, and whether the Scottish Parliament has power to pass its own bill

Latest criminal cases, including interviews in police detention; offensive weapons; sentencing discounts; commencement of proceedings

The recent European Court of Human Rights decision on hearsay evidence illustrates the judicial dialogue that can take place with domestic courts

A recent Inner House decision, Murdoch v Murdoch, has turned two broadly accepted principles regarding craves on their head

Practical points that need to be addressed regarding the Government's proposals for employment tribunal fees

Corporate restructurings that involve underfunded defined benefit pension schemes may now benefit from a new facility called a "flexible apportionment agreement"

While the Law Society of Scotland supports the principles of the Land Registration etc (Scotland) Bill, it is pressing for a number of amendments on points of concern

Interview with Alastair Maclean, who moved direct from big firm corporate partner to a senior in-house role at Edinburgh Council

Why these are exciting times for local government lawyers, despite the pressures of spending cuts

Recent work of the Society's Law Reform Department, including Scotland Bill; Land Registration Bill; alcohol minimum pricing; criminal sentencing; and a round table event

A new support package is available for employers to help them where an employee or their loved one has cancer

Updates on EU matters: data protection; cross-border ADR; criminal investigations

Some of the risks arising from the upsurge in the use of social media, both in and out of the workplace