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We are pleased and proud to present to the Society the latest cohort of trainee solicitors who have undertaken the Society’s Professional Competence Course delivered in Glasgow at the Royal Faculty of Procurators and at the Sheriff Court.

The Scottish Law Agents Society has been opposed to ABS ever since it was first mooted in the 1990s.  Indeed, possibly the largest vote ever raised at a Law Society general meeting supported the SLAS position in opposition to ABS at a general meeting in 2010.  However, not all lawyers are...

This meeting reviewed the Society’s own Gazette and Memorandum Book and there was lively discussion of the facilities which are available on the Society’s new website.

With apologies to those members who are well versed in the use of IT, websites and so on, I offer below a simple explanation as to how members might access and use the facilities available on this website.

HSBC has set up a conveyancing panel containing only 43 law firms for the whole of the UK and there is unconfirmed information that only 4 firms will be allocated to Scotland. We have received other unconfirmed information that another major lender is about to follow suit.

We omitted to include a Gift Aid declaration with the subscription notices and now attach one below which you should print and return with your donation to the Scottish Solicitors' Benevolent Fund.

We have been advised of a prosecution by the Law Society against a solicitor in respect of mortgage transactions in which the solicitor failed to carry out certain of the requirements of the CML (Council of Mortgage Lenders) Handbook.  We attach an anonymised text of the findings and outcome and...

A number of members have drawn attention to an item currently found on the Law Society website and which has been greeted with phrases such as “exceedingly sinister” and “violation of professional privilege” and “I was stunned” and “my jaw dropped” and “I felt quite sick” and we concluded that...

After much activity behind-the-scenes, we are now able to make available to the membership an updated and more versatile website.

One of the long-standing traditions of the Scottish Law Agents Society is the participation in foreign exchange which reflects the Scottish legal tradition as a mixed system drawing from all of the major systems and traditions of the western world. The picture shows our visitors from Prague, a...