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July 2017

Family law: still scope for reform
As the Scottish Law Commission prepares its Tenth Programme of Law Reform, a host of topics under the broad umbrella of child and family law would benefit from its attention
People's court
What happened on the day that four UK Supreme Court Justices took questions at the Law Society of Scotland
The importance of lawyers in a democratic society
The full text of the lecture, one of the Jean Clark Memorial Lectures series, of which an extract appears in this month's magazine
Thy will be done
Some reflections on the practical considerations in making an application for rectification of a will to the court
Children's rights and physical punishment
An extended version of this month's opinion article develops the ECHR arguments for banning physical punishment of children
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In this issue

  • Family law: still scope for reform
  • People's court
  • The importance of lawyers in a democratic society
  • Thy will be done
  • Children's rights and physical punishment
  • Pension sharing and professional negligence
  • Reading for pleasure
  • Opinion: Bruce Adamson
  • Book reviews
  • Profile
  • President's column
  • People on the move
  • 400 years – still innovating
  • Litigation: a bill to settle
  • Access to justice: the small print
  • Benefits of devolution
  • The changing role of the courts in our democracy
  • Core values
  • The will bank opportunity
  • Deep and meaningful
  • The fall and rise of interrogatories
  • To act or not to act?
  • Immigration issues: more red tape
  • Taxman scores winner in Rangers contest
  • EIA: the regimes change
  • Scottish Solicitors' Discipline Tribunal
  • Practitioners or salesmen?
  • Where the buck stops
  • Law reform roundup
  • Cyber basics for lawyers
  • Practice points from missives review
  • Money laundering update: new regulations in force
  • Courts raise the stakes
  • May: the force be not with you
  • Conference success
  • SYLA: 2016-17 in focus
  • Ask Ash

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