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  5. June 2008

June 2008

No place for secrecy
Fuller version of the Opinion article, Journal, June 2008: critique of the system for appointment as Queen’s Counsel in Scotland
Shaping your future
President's message: The challenge at conference was to keep pace with change; the AGM business structures vote signals a new phase of work to make it happen
No place for secrecy
Opinion that the system for appointment as Queen's Counsel in Scotland is flawed in leaving the power of selection to one person and in being shrouded in secrecy
The future: build your own
Report of Professor Richard Susskind's keynote address to the Society's conference on the legal profession in five years' time: the best way is to invent your own future
Care - a worry?
An overview of questions that regularly arise relating to planning for possible charges under the personal care scheme
https://lawware.co.uk/

In this issue

  • No place for secrecy (1)
  • Shaping your future
  • No place for secrecy
  • The future: build your own
  • Care - a worry?
  • Dirty money?
  • Ready and willing
  • Let the children come
  • Charging the banks
  • Hospital pass
  • Paper treasure
  • Big business
  • Talk of the towns
  • Time to sell up?
  • A place to make amends
  • It ain't what you say...
  • When to take the stand
  • Townships revived
  • A paler shade of right
  • Six + five = ?
  • Scottish Solicitors' Discipline Tribunal
  • Website reviews
  • Book reviews
  • In the public gaze
  • Contested call
  • Rules of engagement

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