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A preview of World Intellectual Property Day 2011

Recent court decisions suggest that in sport, lifetime bans should only be used where no less onerous alternative is available

Reviews of Effective Criminal Defence in Europe (Cape and others); An EU-Wide Letter of Rights (Spronken)

Glasgow Caledonian University provided the setting for a recent exchange of solicitors' views and experiences of the ARTL system

A note on behalf of the Society's Conveyancing and Professional Practice Committees, restating the current position regarding advice on contaminated land issues

A study of Forster v Ferguson & Forster in the light of previous case law

President's message: the difficult and ongoing negotiations on legal aid cuts, and the work to finalise the new constitution to be put to members, have dominated the past month

Opinion column asking why Scotland's police laboratories alone are refusing full disclosure of laboratory case files to defence experts?

Registers of Scotland announce an innovative communication tool that will enable users to select the area of most interest to them and have that content presented first

Results of the Journal's first Employment survey of Scottish solicitors, in association with Thorpe Molloy Recruitment Ltd, including gender pay disparities, benefits, and in-house versus private sector

Average profits in Scottish law firms fell by 11% in 2010, but some firms did quite well, as the first part of the analysis of the 2010 Cost of Time Survey reports

The UK Government's recently published proposal for a minimum price per unit of alcohol is compared, from an EU law viewpoint, with the Scottish Government's policy which has now fallen

Drafting errors and new legislation mean the colourful world of gaming machine law is in a spin

How the new provisions, shortly to come into force, for Crown appeals in solemn trials following an acquittal by direction of the judge, are intended to work

The benefits, and some areas of potential difficulty, in using personal injury trusts as a vehicle for compensation awards where long-term personal care will be necessary

The latest position as the 1 April deadline for submitting all legal aid applications online approaches

The Scottish Young Lawyers' Association has a full and varied programme for members in this year of big changes in legal education and training

Recent work of the Society's Law Reform Department, with crime, contract, pensions, agricultural holdings, the Equality Act and the Reservoirs Bill all featuring

A branding exercise won't work if its effects are only superficial, but if done properly it can reinforce a firm's values and its employees' commitment

First of a new series aimed at helping trainees climb the learning curve and, hopefully, the career ladder: on the importance of being organised, and of paying attention to detail

Advice column: if you're struggling at work due to a bereavement and not getting much sympathy, what can you do?

Workplace mediation as the possible solution to how to broach the question of possible retirement with an older employee, post-default retirement age, without being accused of age discrimination

Risk management article on some of the time-limit issues which can arise from applications to the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority

Latest criminal cases, including evidence against a co-accused; non-disclosure by Crown; sentencing discounts; appeals taking Cadder points