News / 2010

I have now prepared the subscription notices for 2011 and will issue these before the holiday period.

Where a person receives an over-payment of a social security benefit, any recovery by the state is likely to be bedevilled by the fact that, almost by definition, the recipient is unlikely have funds available to repay the overpayment.

There has been agreat deal of emphasis recently on changing business practices in relation to house purchase and relative mortgage transactions along with much reference to new business opportunities, consumer interest and competition.  The recent past has seen the authorsation of legal service...

Although the Law Society AGM was heavily dominated by the ABS debate this year, that meeting approved also The Solicitors (Scotland) (Drafting Wills) Practice Rules 2010 which came into force on 1st October 2010.

Cuts are Anti-Scottish and anti-small business

This consultation closes on Monday 22nd November and members are invited to give it urgent consideration.  The president of the Law Society has issued the following letter and electronic link:-

SLAS ATTACKS “COWARDLY AND BULLYBOY” LLOYDS OVER SCOTTISH PANEL CUTS
“FIGHT THE PANEL CUTS CAMPAIGN”

LLOYDS CONFIRM REMOVAL OF PANEL SOLICITORS

The bush telegraph is buzzing with stories that Lloyds Banks are to reduce the number of solicitors on their conveyancing panels on the basis of turnover.  This is what was done in England earlier this year but with the assurance that there were no plans for a similar cull in Scotland.  Instead...

CADDER – SUPREME COURT DECISION