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Letter: conflicted over conflict?
Comment on the Professional Practice article in the December 2015 Journal
Doing complaints better
Rather than treat it with suspicion, solicitors should engage fully with the SLCC's current strategy consultation, as they stand to gain from increased public confidence in the system
Letter: charging for delivery
Comments on the Society's guidance on charging for lending or delivering files etc
Letter: when you can't say no?
Cases can arise that it is difficult ethically to turn down
Cooling-off consternation
Guidance needed on "impractical" regulations
Life goes on – as we know it?
Why solicitors need to know about the Society's regulation consultations
Time barring hybrid complaints
Question over SLCC's unpublished policy
Where now for conveyancing?
Sep rep has been defeated; what do we do now?
Sep rep: it still needs to be "No"
Why the SGM should reject the proposal now and look for other improvements to the system
The case for sep rep: the conflict of interest is real
Why the profession should avoid the risk of conflicts arising in what is a pressured situation
Sep rep: where is the conflict?
McVey & Murricane survey of top conveyancing firms finds little evidence of conflict of interest
Letter: Food for thought
Some comments on articles in the March 2013 Journal
Look first
Are we going out on a limb on sep rep?
Letter: SLCC – fix the sift
There should be a less expensive means of appealing a decision to sift through a complaint
France says “Non” to ABS
The national council representing the local law societies in France has passed a resolution rejecting the concept of alternative business structures. A lawyer qualified in France and the UK explains why
Letter: Spinning the levy
Reaction to the SLCC levy for the coming year, and the Society's "spin"
Letter: The season for a rant
What is the benefit of the SLCC survey?
Mortgages: raising the stakes
Time for a full review of professional regulation as respects lender panels
Put it to the panel
How should the profession respond to the current moves by mortgage lenders?
Practising what we preach
My wish for 2012: that solicitors practise greater mutual respect in line with the profession's core values
ABS lift-off
Society wants to share draft handbook with those interested in setting up in Scotland
SLCC: one complaint fewer
Follow-up to letter published in July
Complaints against the SLCC
Concerns about a complaint that was not sifted out as spurious
Time for a fresh look at conflict of interest
Shorter version of a discussion paper related to the Scottish Law Agents Society motion before the Law Society of Scotland AGM