Blogs & opinions
Selling a vision
What the independence debate needs is more people with vision and less narrow focusing and negative point scoring
Justice on the cheap?
Does the Courts Reform Bill load the scales too heavily against litigating in the Court of Session?
Letter: Quit the bucket shop
Time to cut conveyancing risks, by charging a proper fee for a proper service
Still talking; little new
Cabinet Secretary's familiar messages to Council
Letter: "Issues for the Union"
Independence would mean dissolving all parts of the United Kingdom
Letter: "Is this where it ends?"
Problems in legislating for assisted suicide
Neuberger speech: where is the "offence"?
President took no position on whether British is better
Corroboration: the soap opera continues
Mr MacAskill's proposed course is no way to make law
Positive thinking
Contributors to the magazine this month are showing this attitude to the challenges of 2014
Letter: conveyancing delays
No one's interests are served, especially the client's, by selling solicitors delaying in ordering up titles
Letter: measure of equality
Comment on the feature on the Society's recent equality and diversity survey
A breath of fresh air from Parliament
Cheers for the report on prisoners' voting rights
Helpful exchange?
Lenders Exchange costs discriminate against sole practitioners
Political rights
Is it wise to propose to include socio-economic rights in the constitution of an independent Scotland?
Does the Society expect me to work for free?
What the guidance on collecting legal aid contributions actually means
The last hope for corroboration?
It should be in the interests of all parties lobbying on the corroboration issue to take up the Law Society of Scotland's invitation to talks
Letter: ex-protocol expenses
Reply to news item about Lawson v Sabre Insurance
All our own fault?
The profession, and the Society, has a remarkable ability to shoot itself in the foot
Tweetblog
In the first of a regular blog about his conversations on Twitter, Neil Stevenson talks about his latest Twitter gaffe, and possible green shoots
Legal aid and the Society: the personal touch
The Society's lead player for criminal legal aid practitioners has been touring the country to hear solicitors' views at first hand
Male type profile?
What should lawyers' employers do to combat the continuing inequalities revealed by the Profile of the Profession survey?
Corroboration: room for modification?
The corroboration rule is needed as a safeguard, but there could be scope to review its application difficult cases
Letter: RoS wants to engage
This is your chance to help shape the 2012 Act in practice
Where now for conveyancing?
Sep rep has been defeated; what do we do now?