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A body comprising Scottish lawyers, family consultants and financial specialists has found that businesses in Scotland are suffering as a result of divorce and separation. Consensus Collaboration Scotland (Consensus), offer couples a non-confrontational way of agreeing the legal and practical arrang

A client of a Scottish legal firm who failed to pay the purchase prices for three houses but claimed that solicitors “acted without his authority” in concluding the missives for the properties is suing the lawyers for nearly £200,000 after he settled an action brought against him by the develop

An artisan Scottish cheesemaker whose products were removed from the shelves following an E.coli outbreak is bringing a judicial review against Food Standards Scotland in a bid to defeat claims it was the source of the outbreak. Errington Cheese’s products were recalled in September following alle

A partner in a Scottish legal firm which overcharged clients by more than £100,000 has been suspended from practice after being found guilty of professional misconduct. Philip Hogg, 50, has had his practising certificate suspended by the Scottish Solicitors’ Discipline Tribunal (SSDT) for five ye

A group of Scottish tenant farmers who claimed they had suffered “loss, injury and damage” after being evicted from their farms due to “unlawful” legislation are entitled to limited compensation, a judge has ruled. The Court of Session held that the state should compensate the individuals fo

The owners of a Scottish estate who were seeking to challenge a decision to the effect that they had breached “the right to roam” by locking three gated entrances to the land and by erecting a sign warning of wild boar have had their appeal dismissed. The Inner House of the Court Session has ref

Trustees of the Scottish Solicitors Staff Pension Fund who raised an action against a legal firm and its former partners to recover a £90,000 deficit in the fund have successfully appealed against a judge’s decision to dismiss their claim. The Inner House of the Court of Session allowed

A Reporter for the Scottish Ministers was found to have erred in law by accepting without question the findings of the planning authority regarding the quantity of effective housing land supply in the area. The Inner House of the Court of Session quashed the Reporter’s decision to refuse an ap

A Scottish farming business is entitled to repayment of VAT paid in purchasing entitlements to an EU farm subsidy, the UK Supreme Court has ruled. The justices unanimously dismissed an appeal HMRC after ruling that when the respondent incurred the costs of the single farm pa

Best-selling Scottish crime writer Val McDermid has backed a major new campaign by Shelter Scotland which aims to secure the legal right to a decent home for everyone in the country. Launched today, the campaign follows research conducted by YouGov for the charity that found that 88 per cent of peop

The understandable furore over the wrongful conviction of Andrew Malkinson on a charge of rape in the English High Court has led to calls from many eminent lawyers for a public inquiry. The failures of the police, the Crown Prosecution Service and the Criminal Cases Review Commission add up to a dis

A woman detained in a Scottish hospital under mental health legislation who challenged a warrant which was granted for her transfer to Holland had had an appeal against the decision refused. Sheriff Principal Derek Pyle (pictured) heard that the appellant “K” was detained in April 2014 within Ne

An environmental group which challenged a Scottish local authority’s decision to grant planning permission for a new secondary school to be built in the Fife countryside has had a petition for judicial review dismissed. A judge in the Court of Session ruled that the council’s decision was “law

A former director of a Scottish Championship football team who loaned more than £200,000 to the club has failed in a legal action to recover the money. The pursuer Gerard Nixon, who was a director of the defender Livingston Football Club (LFC) between 2009 and 2013, sought decree of payment of a to

The Home Secretary has successfully challenged a Scottish judge’s decision that her refusal of a Pakistani national’s application for leave to remain in the UK was unlawful. The Lord Ordinary held that a rejection letter by the Secretary of State failed to consider whether refusal of leave to re