North of the border: A shift in Scottish solicitor regulation

Victoria Arnott is an associate at Simpson and Marwick

The Law Society of Scotland has launched two consultations on significant changes to the regulation of solicitors in Scotland.

The first examines the possibility of adopting a hybrid system of regulation and discipline where the focus shifts from individual solicitors to legal entities. One consequence of that change would be

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