Blogs & opinions
Letter: "Home report failed us"
Buyers seek support for action
The year that was
The Journal employment survey reveals a gloomy outlook; how can solicitors meet clients' needs in these times?
Holiday pay includes commission, appeal court agrees
Judges uphold EAT decision in Lock v British Gas
Salesman fined for taking client records to new job
Data protection offence by emailing personal information
Scottish cases break new ground
Decisions on shared parental leave, and settlement agreements
Early conciliation certificates: further claims allowed?
New claims relating to same matter can be included: tribunal
Three new ACAS guides released
Advice about school leavers, young managers, and dress codes
Confirmation and the 2016 Act
From a letter to the Society from Scottish Courts & Tribunals Service
Letter: Scottish ALB users group
Who would like to help form one?
Fighting an unseen enemy
Solicitors need more advice and guidance against the threat from cyber criminals
How getting involved in debating can change your life
Head of education Rob Marrs explains how getting involved in debating, whether as competitor or judge, can be incredibly rewarding. And more importantly, he explains how to win a debate.
Career development and volunteering at the Law Society of Scotland
If you want to enhance your career, develop your skills or just give back to your profession, there are lots of different personal and professional development opportunities at the Society
Working with change
The spotlight is turning to making the court reforms work, but the profession will not be found wanting
Contributory negligence: precedents unlikely
Inner House says factors have to be set in context of case
Uninsured employer company – director liable?
Supreme Court finds no basis in Act to impose liability
Catastrophic injury: calculating care costs
Judge chooses model between pursuer's and defenders' experts
A case too complex for sheriff court jury?
Various factors held not to make case unsuitable
A rare case of all the pedestrian's fault
Man who ran out failed to show fault on driver's part
Going international – a Scots lawyer's week at the IBA
John Morgan, a newly qualified solicitor at Brodies, recently received a scholarship from the International Bar Association to attend its annual conference in Washington DC. He tells of his experience
No test of necessity to apply in refusing contact
Inner House refuses to interfere with sheriff's decision
Holiday leave refused where risk of children not returning
No adequate safeguards if removed to Algeria
Pre-matrimonial assets as special circumstances
Case also discusses needs justifying periodical allowance
Court sets out threshold test for permanence order
Legislation criticised as sheriff's decision upheld
Contact restoration outweighed by mother and child's opposition
Indirect contact allowed though direct not in best interests