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A health board that admitted liability to a patient jointly with a private doctor for serious personal injuries suffered by her has had its contribution for the award of £2.8 million damages assessed at zero per cent, with the doctor bearing 100 per cent. Carolyn Almond-Roots attended the acci

McKee Campbell Morrison (MCM) has marked its first year in business with the appointment of a new senior associate. The firm was established last year by Stacy Campbell, Maureen McKee Matheson, Fraser Morrison and Alan McKee.

DAC Beachcroft has announced the appointment of construction litigator Jilly Petrie as a partner in its national professional & commercial risks team, which sits within its global insurance practice.   Ms Petrie, who is based in DACB’s Glasgow office, moves from BTO Solicitors wh

Gail Docherty has been appointed as head of the residential conveyancing team at Macdonald Henderson. Ms Docherty has an impressive range of experience in the residential property market, having acted as an advisor to private clients and lending institutions, developers and management companies.

An eel smuggler has been slapped with a record €7.2 million fine by Spanish authorities. The man, who has not been identified, will also have to serve a 15-month prison sentence after being convicted of trafficking a protected species.

A project that brings the law to schools has an opportunity for a new lawyer. MiniTrials – conceived by Lord Kinclaven – was launched in 2002 and has helped thousands of pupils throughout Scotland learn about the legal system.

Final year law students Cameron Irons, Zosia Zakrzewska, James Beattie and Calum McArthur have been selected to represent the University of Dundee and Scotland at this year’s Telders International Law Moot Court Competition, which sees teams across Europe meet at The Peace Palace in The Hague,

Thursday 24 February 2022 at 6pm The Scottish Young Lawyers’ Association is collaborating with Harper Macleod LLP to host ‘Spotlight on...Decarbonisation and Natural Capital’.

The UK Supreme Court has dismissed a legal challenge to the £1,012 fee required to register children as British citizens, while recognising that the fee excludes large numbers of children from their rights. The ultimately unsuccessful legal challenge was brought by the Project for the Registra

The former employer of the driver involved in the 2014 Glasgow bin lorry crash has successfully defended an action by Glasgow City Council seeking to recover over £6 million it paid in settlements to claimants affected by the crash. It was averred by the pursuer that First Glasgow Ltd owed it

Clyde & Co’s team in Scotland has successfully defended its client and their insured in a case relating to damages following a fire in a storage building formerly called the ‘turkeytorium’. DC Watson & Sons (Fenton Barns) Ltd leased a storage unit in the building to Philip

A Glasgow man who illegally dumped asbestos on private land has been fined. Iain McGuiness, who owned a building maintenance company at the time, drove a van containing the waste to a site in the city’s London Road on 24 October 2019.

Levy & McRae has launched L&M MediLaw, a new offering focused on bringing expertise to medical negligence claims. The venture will be led by senior associate Elizabeth Rose who is accredited by the Law Society of Scotland as a specialist in medical negligence claims. Ms Rose and her team wil

The law commissions of England, Scotland and Wales have produced a joint report setting out their recommendations for a regulatory framework concerning automated vehicles. If the idea of vehicles capable of driving themselves dominating the local high street seems at present somewhat futuristic, sof

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