News / 2008

Kenneth Swinton, the Convener of our Conveyancing Committee has addressed the following letter to the First Minister, Alex Salmond:-

The Law Society in England has reported that the requirement to provide Home Information Packs has been widely ignored.

The House of Lords, led by Lord Hope, overruled a decision of the Inner House, First Division, and authorised the release of information concerning the incidence of childhood leukemia in a particular postal area, provided this was done in a suitably anonymised from that did not disclose personal...

Raymond Hislop of Glasgow Writes:-

It was interesting, at a time when the news is telling us how British children are now worse treated than ever, to visit the an

The Society's AGM was duly convened at the Royal Faculty of Procurators at Glasgow on 19th June 2008 when outgoing President Dorothy McGhie demitted office after presenting the Annual Report and welcomed David MacLennan of Edinburgh to office as the President in this, our 125th year of service...

Members are reminded that the Law Society is conducting a survey for opinions as to a number of issues concerning conduct and service standards to be provided by solicitors.

Chemical manufacturers and processors all round the world must, as of this week, submit their preliminary registrations at the newly inaugurated EU Chemicals Agency in Helsinki.  This major EU bureau has been set up to administer the union's labyrinthine "REACH" legislation on registration,...

LAW SOCIETY AGM VOTES FOR ABS

All arrangements are now in hand for the delivery of the Professional Competence Course programme from 12th to 22nd May 2008.  Trainee solicitors taking the course should now have received Course Handbooks and instructions as to who should be where and when.  The programme shall be delivered...