Blogs & opinions
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Title insurance – the solution?
Why not make more use of title insurance in resolving minor property-related matters?
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Hate crime: an open letter
Solicitor protests against ineffective action by authorities against child homophobia
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Dissolving the Union
Comment on "Scotland's Constitutional Future 2" and Scotland's status
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People's choice
Does the draft interim constitution embody that the people are "sovereign"?
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Time barring hybrid complaints
Question over SLCC's unpublished policy
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Letter: AFLA's positive impact
Marking the success to date of Armed Forces Legal Action
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Global connections
Despite the concerns voiced, there is little evidence to date of harm to the Scottish legal profession from the number of cross-border mergers
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Selling a vision
What the independence debate needs is more people with vision and less narrow focusing and negative point scoring
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Justice on the cheap?
Does the Courts Reform Bill load the scales too heavily against litigating in the Court of Session?
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Letter: Quit the bucket shop
Time to cut conveyancing risks, by charging a proper fee for a proper service
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Still talking; little new
Cabinet Secretary's familiar messages to Council
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Letter: "Issues for the Union"
Independence would mean dissolving all parts of the United Kingdom
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Letter: "Is this where it ends?"
Problems in legislating for assisted suicide
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Neuberger speech: where is the "offence"?
President took no position on whether British is better
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Corroboration: the soap opera continues
Mr MacAskill's proposed course is no way to make law
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Positive thinking
Contributors to the magazine this month are showing this attitude to the challenges of 2014
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Letter: conveyancing delays
No one's interests are served, especially the client's, by selling solicitors delaying in ordering up titles
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Letter: measure of equality
Comment on the feature on the Society's recent equality and diversity survey