News / 2012

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Criminal Legal Aid Contributions

Gentlemen

Since it would appear that the badge (sorry, 'descriptor') of 'solicitor' is now to be made freely available to any Tom, Dick or LP, perhaps SLAS should be promoting/protecting the use of the term 'Scottish Law Agent' to denote the trusted adviser of choice?

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Flexible Training Opportunities - run by Skills Development Scotland - gives Scottish businesses with up to 100 employees the opportunity to apply for up to £5,000 towards employee training costs.

There is now a proposal that the Scottish Legal Aid Board (SLAB) will now proceed to levy contributions from assisted persons for summary, criminal legally aided work.  Moreover, it will be down to the solicitors themselves to collect these contributions.  This is effectively a reduction of the...

The Leader of Glasgow City Council, Gordon Matheson, launched the Commonwealth Graduate Fund, in November 2011, which will provide funding for 1,000 graduate jobs in the city. 

A new legal organisation is to be established in Glasgow, which is intended be the city's version of the successful Edinburgh Conveyancers Forum.

This article was published in the September Gazette of the Scottish Law Agents Society.  It has brought a considerable amount of comment and, if members have any information that might help to develop the consideration of this issue they send it to secretary@slas.co.uk

We present an updated view of the prospective advent of Alternative Business Structures or Licenced Legal Service Providers, their legislative title.

It is noted that SSDT has made yet another finding of Professional Misconduct in respect of a failure to report to a lender in terms of the CML Handbook.