Blogs & opinions

Time barring hybrid complaints
Question over SLCC's unpublished policy

Letter: AFLA's positive impact
Marking the success to date of Armed Forces Legal Action

Global connections
Despite the concerns voiced, there is little evidence to date of harm to the Scottish legal profession from the number of cross-border mergers

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?