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Review time
Patience will be needed as regards the outcome of the new review of legal services regulation, but there is much for the profession to concern itself with meantime
Letter: registration frustrations
Frustrations are building at practical aspects of policy in relation to the Land Register, which Registers of Scotland seem unwilling to act on
Letter: SLCC – a protective approach
In the writer's experience, the SLCC is protective of solicitors, rather than guilty of pursuing complaints heavy-handedly
Professional Practice - advising the advisers
Scottish solicitors help their clients through some of the most momentous occasions of their lives, personal or professional, good or bad. But where do solicitors turn for support? Prof Prac, that's where.
DAS: is it broken?
Changes to the Debt Arrangement Scheme have resulted in its falling popularity, and remedial action is needed
Working time rules require employers to provide for breaks
Employee claim does not depend on request being refused
Immigration: caveat employer
Further controls on employing immigrant workers are now in force
Stress short of mental illness not disability: EAT
Stressed and dyslexic teacher did not have relevant disability
Home Office discrimination claim upheld
Case remitted to consider race as well as disability grounds
Union liable for non-employee officers
Discrimination claim involving “authorised agents” upheld
Letters: SLCC levy proposals
Comments on the Society's response
Letter: rejections – compounded by delays
The length of time that sometimes elapses before Registers of Scotland reject an application is a further cause for concern
