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  5. August 2014

August 2014

Can solicitors be bystanders to offensive language?
To challenge may not be easy, but may be professionally required, says the Society's Equality Committee
Driving away candidates
The importance of careful wording of job advertisements to avoid advertising an intention to discriminate
Criminal injuries compensation – the new pitfalls
The Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme 2012 contains important changes that advisers need to know in order to avoid hopeless applications
Fish farms: a controlled environment
A guide to the complex planning and regulatory requirements surrounding marine fish farming in Scotland
Still trying to take care of the dead
Who decides on the burial of the deceased, the widow or the executor? The latest decision in a long running saga
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In this issue

  • Can solicitors be bystanders to offensive language?
  • Driving away candidates
  • Criminal injuries compensation – the new pitfalls
  • Fish farms: a controlled environment
  • Still trying to take care of the dead
  • Permanence: beyond the past
  • A series of unlikely events
  • Reading for pleasure
  • Opinion: Paul Motion and Laura Irvine
  • Book reviews
  • Profile
  • President's column
  • Count of 10
  • People on the move
  • Your life on file
  • Drip, drip, DRIP: privacy draining away?
  • LBTT: prepare to switch
  • Workers: a class apart
  • Dictation has a silver lining
  • Don't cross them
  • A case to make its mark?
  • Variations on a theme
  • Child abduction: recent developments
  • Whistleblowing update
  • Pension changes mean trustee alert
  • Scottish Solicitors' Discipline Tribunal
  • Changing elitism to equality
  • Shape of the future
  • Mentors wanted for scheme's second year
  • Mandatory PC online renewal is coming for all
  • Join wills charity drive
  • Law reform roundup
  • Carolyn's at the top of her Games
  • Smartcards - the lawyer's friend
  • With growth there is risk
  • Ask Ash
  • Smarter money
  • Across borders
  • Angles on immigration
  • Legal aid – the hidden catches

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