Blogs & opinions

Title insurance – the solution?
Why not make more use of title insurance in resolving minor property-related matters?

Hate crime: an open letter
Solicitor protests against ineffective action by authorities against child homophobia

Dissolving the Union
Comment on "Scotland's Constitutional Future 2" and Scotland's status

People's choice
Does the draft interim constitution embody that the people are "sovereign"?

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Question over SLCC's unpublished policy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