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There are risks to the public in both the Scottish Government’s and the professional bodies’ proposed approaches to legal services regulatory reform. Is there another way forward?

The 2023 Profile of the Profession survey has some alarming findings about wellbeing, something that ties in with levels of aggression experienced. Are your own communications respectful of others?

Collected news of Scottish legal appointments and practice changes

In association with Evelyn Partners: Five pieces of investment jargon that are worth understanding

Recent civil cases, including arrestment; vicarious liability; Crown liability; time bar; admissibility of evidence; affidavit evidence; legal confidentiality and privilege; dawn raids; QOCS

New guidance for employers on processing workers’ health data, issued by the Information Commissioner’s Office, is a valuable resource for practical advice on legal obligations

An Inner House decision illustrates how ancillary orders can be used to achieve a clean break in orders for financial provision, in the context of shares in a company controlled by one party

It is proposed to extend the range of human rights protections in domestic Scots law, but do we risk creating a range of rights that are not truly justiciable, or therefore practically enforceable?

The High Court in England has held the lack of actuarial confirmation fatal to amendments to a formerly contracted-out scheme, in a case that addresses longstanding questions of interpretation

Reports relating to Margaret Anne Horsley; David Johnson; Alan Robert Kennedy Watt

An enthusiast for green energy and sustainability, this month’s interviewee has enjoyed a career that has taken him to GC positions and on to a consultancy and management portfolio

Recent work of the Society's policy committees, covering Human Rights Bill; energy performance certificates; environmental governance

A Society briefing on the Scottish Covid-19 Inquiry and the role it will, and others may, play

This article from Lockton takes a fresh look at the Register of Overseas Entities in terms of risk management, having regard to current and likely future legal requirements

A roundup of this autumn's Scottish Legal Walks

Advice column: I can’t take to the flexible working mentality

This article considers the increasing use of development management schemes in housing developments, and a recent case which upheld the competence of the right of veto commonly found in such schemes

The extent of an employee’s right to time off under s 57A of the Employment Rights Act in order to provide necessary assistance to a dependant, and when an employer can refuse

Better information is needed on whether marriage of those aged under 18 is a cause of harm, before any moves to ban the practice in Scotland

I support those including the International Bar Association and Barack Obama who call for Israel's response to the Hamas atrocities to align with humanitarian values

The first decision has been reported in which a pursuer in a personal injury action has lost the protection of qualified one-way costs shifting due to “manifestly unreasonable” behaviour

Review of Sudden Deaths and Fatal Accident Inquiries in Scotland: Law, Policy and Practice (Mawdsley)

The November 2023 selection of leisure reading, chosen by the Journal's book review editor

James Bryden is the new Council member for England, Wales & Northern Ireland and is senior counsel in the Disputes & Investigations group at Taylor Wessing