Blogs & opinions

Offer them hope
Message needed for the young in troubled times

Knocking out a pillar
Can we challenge the Carloway approach?

Time to police the Internet!
Anonymous postings should be banned

Doing good for pro bono
Time to get back to the real message

Why attack Elish?
Criticism over Pro Bono Week remarks is unfair

OPG service frustrations
Time for official representations to try and improve the situation

To jail or not to jail?
Arguments about effective sentencing come round again

Reality of Death Row
Amicus event exposes inadequacies of capital cases

More title issues
Purchasing solicitors guilty of poor practice too

View from Wick
Austin Lafferty's faculty visit to Caithness

What’s in it for you?
Journal editorial, October 2011

Power lines
Supreme Court defines the respective limits of authority

ABS lift-off
Society wants to share draft handbook with those interested in setting up in Scotland

Sectarianism bill
Justice Committee performing role?

The illusion of speed
Minister's "legal" reason for raising the limit is dangerous

Peace reigns
But member engagement at SGM low as a result

2020 vision
Society's objectives set out for today's SGM

Leaner and fitter (2)
Journal editorial, September 2011

Conveyancing – nobody’s child?
Why do seling solicitors not give a proper response to queries regarding a title?

SLCC: one complaint fewer
Follow-up to letter published in July

Appealing approach
Are we too suspicious of the McCluskey "certification" proposal?

Access to justice: speaking in the public interest
Vice President explains the role of the Society’s Access to Justice Committee

Leaner and fitter
New look magazine set to make an impact

Conference call to action
"One Profession" event highlights opportunities in the years ahead