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31 January 2012 - Legal Assistants
We are recruiting legal assistants to start in 2012 ... Read more...
20 December 2011 - Insurance contract law reform
We are proposing a range of reforms, including making insurance contract law work for bereaved families and dependants … Read more...
13 December 2011 - Partnerships - criminal liability
We recommend that it should remain competent to prosecute a partnership during a period of 5 years following its dissolution ... Read more...
9 December 2011 - How to right things when they go wrong
New consultation paper on the defective exercise of fiduciary power ... Read more...
21 November 2011 - Law reform conference paper
Malcolm McMillan, Chief Executive of the Scottish Law Commission, gave a paper on law reform at the Regional Conference of the Association of Law Reform Agencies of Eastern and Southern Africa (ALRAESA) on 7-11 November 2011... Read more...
10 November 2011 - Advice on European sales law
Today we publish, jointly with the Law Commission, our advice to the UK government on the Common European Sales Law ... Read more...