President's message: The challenge of the next 12 months will be to highlight the importance of a profession free from state control
Opinion: The legal aid motion adopted by the special general meeting and the Society's Council was born of a deep anger at Scottish Executive indifference
The implications of the Special General Meeting vote to withdraw co-operation from the Executive over legal aid
Why the legal aid provisions of the Legal Profession Bill fail to satisfy service providers
The Legal Profession Bill and other regulatory developments continue to demand work by, and comment from, the profession in response
In this issue
- Independence first
- Stand up for our system
- The talking stops here
- The bill: a half measure
- Turning up the heat
- Strengthened or threatened?
- The patient approach
- Another little job
- The wars of the portals
- The LLP factor
- Avoiding surprises
- The temporary judge survives
- HMRC to the rescue
- Core of the agreement
- A debate to be resumed
- The impact of human rights
- Website reviews
- Book reviews
- Is that burden dead yet?
