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Montreal 9 May 2013

We would like to invite members to use our Annual General Meeting this year as an opportunity to get together and discuss our collegiate identity. 

The Scottish Law Agents Society is recruiting members from solicitors' firms large and small around Scotland.

The SLAS in tray has been busier of late than it has been for sometime previously.  I will endeavour to report this in greater detail in the March Gazette which should arrive towards the end of the month or possibly a day or two into April.  This was to enable matters arising from the Law...

We had previously understood that there was consensus around the Law Society and SLAS members concerned with this aspect of business that we should now move toward separate representation of borrowers and lenders in terms of the motion which will call at the AGM later this week.

Members will be aware that we seldom publish correspondence from the membership or from the wider profession in our quarterly Gazette. This is not to say that we do not receive significant comment from our membership, there is, however, a general reluctance for matters to be published.

At a meeting of the recently formed Glasgow Conveyancing Forum (GCF) on 12th February 2013 at the Royal Faculty in Hall in Glasgow, a debate was convened on the subject of “Separate Representation-For or Against?”.

There were about 40 - 50 people at this meeting. In attendance were MSPs, the Law Society, solicitors, representatives from the universities and students.

For a fair report on what happened see:

This is a last call for interest in convening a weekend conference around our AGM this year.  We convened our ABM last year in five star luxury at Duchally Country Estate in Gleneagles at a cost of £150 per couple for two nights bed and breakfast and a dinner on the Saturday evening, £75 per...

We publish below a letter received from the Cabinet Secretary for Justice and invite comment thereon.