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The Damages (Investment Returns and Periodical Payments) (Scotland) Act 2019 received Royal Assent on 24 April 2019 but Part 2 of the act, which allows Scottish courts to impose a periodical payment order (PPO) for future pecuniary losses in a personal injury claim rather than to award damages as a

Niall Moran examines the stalemate between the United Kingdom and the European Union on the implementation of the Northern Ireland Protocol. On July 21, the UK government published its command paper seeking fundamental change to the rules governing trade in goods and the “overarching instituti

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Cross-justice collaboration has improved the efficiency of summary criminal business in the sheriff courts, a report has shown. The Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service report on pre-intermediate diet meetings (PIDMs) shows that engagement in the procedure increased from a national average of 53 pe

UN human rights experts have condemned an extremely restrictive new abortion ban in Texas as "structural sex and gender-based discrimination at its worst" – while a court ruling in neighbouring Mexico has paved the way for abortion to be decriminalised.

The Pope sent 15,000 ice creams to inmates at two Rome prisons in an act of charity this summer. The Office of Papal Charities said on Tuesday that it "has made small evangelical gestures to help and give hope to thousands of people in Rome's prisons".

The Law Society of Scotland has accused the Scottish government of dragging its feet on legal aid reform following the announcement of its programme for government. An independent legal aid review, which reported over three years ago, recommended an overhaul of the system. However, while the governm

The Scotsman has published an obituary of Sandy Moffat, who passed away on 13 July. "Major Sandy Moffat, who died on 13 July 2021, was representative of a breed of Scottish lawyer who were effectively ‘twice a citizen’, combining dedication to the high traditions of his profession with l

Northern Ireland's first woman chief justice, Dame Siobhan Keegan and the Lord Chancellor, Robert Buckland QC MP, have marked the opening of the new legal year in Northern Ireland.

The UK’s Department for International Trade has awarded a contract to UK law firm TLT (in consortium with US firm McDermott Will & Emery and Canada’s Borden Ladner Gervais) to advise on three critical trade negotiations as it seeks to shape the country’s post-Brexit trading lan

The Sheriff Appeal Court has determined that a certificate of repairs issued by the proprietors of a farm in respect of a real burden to the purchasers of the burdened property contained manifest errors preventing it from being wholly enforceable. Paul and Evonne Salmond, originally the de

The Scottish Civil Justice Council is consulting on the mode of attendance at court hearings in civil proceedings. Last year, in response to the pandemic, the Scottish Parliament passed legislation making changes to the law for conducting civil business in Scotland’s courts and tribunals.

Tara Davison considers whether a notice is valid when served on a party who is specified in the contract, but who no longer holds office and lacks authority to act. In the recent case Scottish case of Michael Wilson v Graeme W Cheyne (Builders) Ltd [2021] ScotSAC Civ (03 August 2021) the Sheriff App

The mayor of Rome has reported a neighbouring regional government to criminal prosecutors over its alleged failure to prevent wild boar from invading the capital city.

A series of three briefing papers on the Scottish Parliament’s consideration of proposals to amend retained EU law in devolved areas is now available. The papers have been written by Dr Robert Brett Taylor and Professor Adelyn L M Wilson of the University of Aberdeen as part of a Scottish Parl