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Considering the latest Civil Justice Statistics, can it yet be said whether the civil court reforms are having an impact on the number of actions raised?

Recent cases demonstrate the differences between the Scottish and English approaches to fraudulent exaggeration of a damages claim

Solicitors with experience of exercising the right to access environmental information are invited to help a research project being run by the University of Dundee

A General Medical Council review, to which the Society has responded, highlights the lack of clarity regarding criminal prosecutions of doctors

This month's selection of leisure reading, chosen by the Journal's book review editor

Among the expectations of new trainee solicitors is now that they are “technologically aware”. But can they add that to all the other desired skills? Would you take a new Diploma course with that aim?

Review of Nothing so Practical as a Good Theory: Festschrift for George L Gretton (ed Steven)

Ryan McCuaig is about to start his Diploma at the University of Glasgow and is a member of the Lawscot Foundation fundraising committee

Meeting the leaders of the other British Isles law societies is always stimulating, and can throw up differing approaches to similar issues, from which we can all learn

Registers of Scotland page: digital discharges and ScotLIS success; new application form cuts rejections; policy on trans people; arrear update

Collected news of new appointments and practice changes

Lady Hale, President of the UK Supreme Court and keynote speaker at the Society's annual conference, discusses the theme of her address – and some of the issues arising from the court's recent cases

What are the latest trends for profits, and margins? The Society reports on the findings from this year's Financial Benchmarking survey

Your personal safety can be on the line in your professional work. We report on the levels of violent or threatening behaviour revealed by the 2018 Journal employment survey

The Society’s Insurance Committee convener tells the Journal how it is more proactively looking for ways to cut the level of claims – and why that should benefit, as well as ask more of solicitors

In association with Document Data Group: Are you still storing paper case files? How much is it costing you waiting for their retrieval?

Glasgow Solicitors Property Centre has gone into liquidation. Why did it happen, and what is the future for SPCs? A solicitor director offers a personal view

The author considers ABC v Principal Reporter, which raised a difficult question concerning whether a sibling can be a “relevant person” for the purposes of appearing at a children’s hearing

In association with Lexares LLP: Frances Rooney sets out on her own

Latest civil cases, including reponing notes; case management; skilled witnesses; appeals; defective citation; party litigants; reduction

Intellectual property briefing: an important CJEU ruling protects the rights of copyright holders against the re-posting without their consent of work posted online with no restriction on downloading

Corporate briefing: parties to a contract are bound by the rules which they drafted, the UK Supreme Court has decided, in an important ruling on the effect of “no oral modification” clauses

Agriculture briefing: a new Land Court decision has answered two questions of competency regarding the preliminaries to, and the timing of, a notice seeking a variation of rent

Insolvency briefing: the nature of an interest in a life insurance policy for the purposes of the Bankruptcy Acts has, surprisingly but importantly, been considered by the courts for the first time