SLN Annual Review 2016 out now!
The Scottish Legal News Annual Review 2016 is now being delivered across Scotland. The full colour magazine features core updates in criminal, public, employment, commercial, property, family and human rights law. A digital version of the Review can be downloaded by clicking on the banner.
In this year’s Review Nick Freer discusses how Anderson Strathern remains firmly rooted in its Scottish heritage while developing close links with London firms.
MBM Commercial’s Cat Maclean, solicitor of the year 2015, looks at litigating against banks and why there may be cause for cautious optimism.
John Scott QC, chair of the advisory group on stop and search, discusses the work of the group, the idea of a code of practice and bringing an end to so-called “consensual” stop and search.
Professor Stewart Brymer OBE, WS, calls for a coherent digital conveyancing strategy in his timely article.
“But we have no slaves in Scotland…” recalls Alan McLean QC, who writes about the importance of the Tumbling Lassie case of 1687 (Reid v Scot of Harden), a decision made decades before the Scots-born Lord Chief Justice, Lord Mansfield, “the greatest judge in English history”, made his famous decision in Sommersett (1772).
If you would like copies of the magazine please contact distribution manager James Ross on: jim@scottishnews.com.