Scottish Government

ISBN 978 0 7559 1854 6 (Web only publication)

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Contents

FOREWORD

1. SCOTLAND AS A CENTRE FOR DISPUTE RESOLUTION
1.1 Encouraging business to use the Scottish courts and legal system.
1.2 Why business chooses English rather than Scots Law
1.3 Conclusions
1.4 Recommendations

2. THE COMMERCIAL COURT OF THE COURT OF SESSION
2.1 How the Commercial Court Operates
2.2 Recommendations

3. ALTERNATIVE DISPUTE RESOLUTION
3.1 Development of ADR
3.2 Recommendations

4. GROWING THE LEGAL MARKET
4.1 The development of niche markets
4.2 Commoditised legal services
4.3 Recommendation
4.4 Intellectual property law
4.5 Recommendations
4.6 Employment law
4.7 Recommendations
4.8 Technological leap-frogging
4.9 Recommendation
4.10 Understanding the profile of the business legal market
4.11 Recommendation

5. SELLING SCOTLAND'S LEGAL SYSTEM AND PROFESSION
5.1 Improving the perceptions of the legal market
5.2 Recommendations

6. CONCLUSION

ANNEX A - ( BELF) MEMBERSHIP AND HOW IT OPERATED
ANNEX B - METHODOLOGY