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New return to work advisory service

9th October 2014 | employment
Aim to facilitate return to work after four weeks' absence

Legal expenses insurance: check for it

9th October 2014 | employment
Mardner v Gardner illustrates why you should

1 October: the latest changes

9th October 2014 | employment
A roundup of legislation in force from 1 October 2014

Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Bill making progress

9th October 2014 | employment
Provisions cover whistleblowing, tribunals, zero hours and minimum wage

Acas dress code: help for employers

9th October 2014 | employment
Guidance on dress codes, tattoos and body piercings will help avoid claims

Life goes on – as we know it?

11th September 2014 | law society of scotland , professional regulation
Why solicitors need to know about the Society's regulation consultations

Letter: Repossessions: bad practice

11th September 2014 | property (non-commercial)
Why are lenders so unrealistic when selling a repossessed property?

Letter: Masters of cross-examination

11th September 2014 | civil litigation , criminal law
Mastery of the brief is the key to success, but personal style can play a part

Cohabitants: a changing landscape

9th September 2014 | family-child law
Post-Gow v Grant, the law continues to evolve

CMS? It'll cost you

9th September 2014 | family-child law
Fees are now payable if resort is had to the Child Maintenance Service

Regulation or interpretation?

9th September 2014 | family-child law
Reminders, if they were needed, about the difficulties that can ensue in interpreting the clauses of a minute of agreement

Expensive lesson

9th September 2014 | family-child law
A salutary lesson in the vagaries of litigating financial provision cases in the sheriff court

Party litigants, and some dos and don'ts

9th September 2014 | civil litigation , family-child law
Procedural points from some recent shrieval decisions

Contact: no presumption here?

9th September 2014 | family-child law
A presumption for involvement of a parent in a child's life? Scotland and England appear to be differing

Fresh starts

15th August 2014
A new look magazine this month, but the same focus on the important issues of the day

A complete Land Register?

14th August 2014 | commercial property , property (non-commercial)
A case study of the kind of obstacles that lie in the way

Title insurance – the solution?

14th August 2014 | property (non-commercial)
Why not make more use of title insurance in resolving minor property-related matters?

Hate crime: an open letter

13th August 2014 | criminal law
Solicitor protests against ineffective action by authorities against child homophobia

Dissolving the Union

22nd July 2014 | government-administration
Comment on "Scotland's Constitutional Future 2" and Scotland's status

People's choice

10th July 2014 | government-administration
Does the draft interim constitution embody that the people are "sovereign"?

Time barring hybrid complaints

10th July 2014 | professional regulation
Question over SLCC's unpublished policy

Letter: AFLA's positive impact

10th July 2014 | client relations , practice management
Marking the success to date of Armed Forces Legal Action

Global connections

14th June 2014 | practice management
Despite the concerns voiced, there is little evidence to date of harm to the Scottish legal profession from the number of cross-border mergers

Selling a vision

18th May 2014
What the independence debate needs is more people with vision and less narrow focusing and negative point scoring
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