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The Upper Tribunal for Scotland has refused permission for an appeal by two tenants of a tenement apartment seeking to add other proprietors of flats in the same building to their repairing standard application as additional respondents, after it was asked to reconsider its initial decision on the c

Advocates David Nicolson and Dominic Scullion have joined Compass Chambers.

Updated national guidance for child protection in Scotland has been published. Outlining the responsibilities of everyone who works with children, young people and their families, the updated guidance has a strengthened focus on listening to the views of children and working with families.

MacRoberts LLP has welcomed seven former trainees as newly-qualified solicitors.

Responses to a consultation on reforming Scotland's gender recognition laws have been published by the Scottish government. A majority of organisations responding to the consultation, which ran from December 2019 to March 2020, broadly supported changing to a statutory declaration-based system, acco

Andrew Bowen QC of Terra Firma Chambers examines the case law on reflective loss. In the Supreme Court’s seven-justice ‘root and branch’ review of the rule against reflective loss (often referred to as ‘the rule in Prudential’), the majority held that a shareholder coul

Licensing lawyer Stephen McGowan will discuss his new book on the complex and ever-changing world of alcohol licensing in Scotland in a virtual launch event later this month. Mr McGowan, partner and head of licensing in Scotland at TLT, discussed his interest in licensing law with Scottish Legal New

A Coatbridge man who choked a police officer until he was unconscious has been jailed. John Dow attacked the constable after he and his colleague stopped to respond to a disturbance in the town’s Mitchell Street in July 2020.

An MSP has lodged a proposal for a draft bill which would see the right to food enshrined in Scots law. Scottish Labour MSP Rhoda Grant's The Right to Food (Scotland) Bill would establish an independent statutory body to oversee food policy to ensure no one goes hungry in Scotland.

A round-up of human rights stories from around the world. Afghanistan: ‘We and our families are facing death’ | The Times

French police and gendarmes have been told off for inappropriate online behaviour on the likes of Tinder and TikTok. One gendarme who posed in his uniform in his Tinder profile and wrote "if you have to be screwed by the forces of order, you might as well consent and enjoy it", was suspended.

The Inner House of the Court of Session has refused to direct that the sole executor of a late South African woman who left part of her estate to charity can donate it to a charity with a similar name to a non-existent one named in the will. Vindex Trustees Ltd, the sole executor under the will and

In a criminal justice system where supporting victims is meant to be a priority, why are answers being hidden from those who need them most? Imagine this scenario. You’ve been involved in a serious road traffic collision; your injuries are so serious that you won’t be able to work for mo

An interesting little conundrum for those with too much time on their hands. The flash floods in Edinburgh’s fashionable Stockbridge area earlier this year did significant damage to property, but thankfully, in contrast to similar events in Germany, no lives were lost. For this we may be grate

There comes a time in the history of all bureaucracies when they must inevitably parody their own functions.