Blogs & opinions
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Conveyancing – nobody’s child?
Why do seling solicitors not give a proper response to queries regarding a title?
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SLCC: one complaint fewer
Follow-up to letter published in July
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Appealing approach
Are we too suspicious of the McCluskey "certification" proposal?
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Access to justice: speaking in the public interest
Vice President explains the role of the Society’s Access to Justice Committee
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Leaner and fitter
New look magazine set to make an impact
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Conference call to action
"One Profession" event highlights opportunities in the years ahead
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Living on the digital economy
Society's IP debate highlights attitude problem to rights protection
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Go to jail
Riot cases highlight the problems in "cracking down"
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Legal advice and assistance and legal aid accounts
Another anomaly comes to light in a case of an apparently mentally ill accused
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Will Aid needs you!
Reasons for taking part in the 2011 campaign
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Red letter day for legal aid
Government concession shows strength of united profession
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A two tier PCC?
Can a single body do all that is required?
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Complaints against the SLCC
Concerns about a complaint that was not sifted out as spurious
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The corruption of power
The real problem with the News of the World is that it managed to stay above the law for so long
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Food for further thought
McCluskey interim report useful, but more work to be done
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Seen to be doing something
A constructive way forward for the anti-sectarianism bill?
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UK Supreme Court needed as effective domestic remedy
Scottish Human Rights Commission open letter to Members of the Scottish Parliament
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Salmond brings unity
Rare joint statement by President and Dean shows importance of issue
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Independence vote: one is enough
Second poll would have high risk of indecisive outcome
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Police station duty plan proposals unacceptable
Open leter from Glasgow Bar Association rejects current SLAB/Scottish Government plan
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Judges and politicians
Scottish ministers have surely overstepped the mark this time
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Access to justice for Scottish citizens
Open letter re the Scottish Government's attack on Scottish judges
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Discrimination: bad for business
Society will lead in tackling negative perceptions of the profession by ethnic minority solicitors
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What sort of legal independence?
Criminal cases and the Supreme Court