Angela Grahame QC Lawyers have responded to the Scottish ministers' decision to lower the discount rate for personal injury awards in Scotland from 2.5 per cent to minus 0.75 per cent, reflecting the same change south of the border, as announced last month by the Lord Chancellor.
Search: Scottish syndicate purchased land 1901 for £5000
Willie McIntyre You just know that whoever drafted the Scottish Legal Aid Board’s new Code of Conduct for Criminal Practitioners couldn’t give you directions to the nearest court, far less have they ever appeared in one.
The Law Society of Scotland has said that increased scrutiny of Scottish Limited Partnerships’ (SLP) anti money laundering processes could help deter criminal activity. In its response to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy’s call for evidence on limited partnership law,
Glen Gilson Gilson Gray has won big at a legal awards ceremony - topping an impressive six categories.
Austin Lafferty The west central Scotland property market is showing little impact from recent political changes, including the triggering of Article 50 and the prospect of a second Scottish referendum, according to the latest analysis from GSPC (Glasgow Solicitors Property Centre).
DWF LLP has failed in a plea to have a £1 million claim against it dismissed in a commercial action brought by the landlord of its former Glasgow offices. The UK law firm, which entered the Scottish legal sector in 2012 via its merger with Biggart Baillie, is being sued by commercial property landl
Peter Boyd An Edinburgh lawyer has been invited as the sole Scottish representative to participate in a Commons committee discussing the potential value of the burgeoning equity release industry.
You might be able to escape the Scottish weather by travelling thousands of miles around the globe, but, as the Faculty of Advocates’ Bill Frain-Bell (pictured) discovered, other reminders of home are more difficult to shake off.
Martin Darroch Harper Macleod is the only Scottish practice shortlisted in the “Regional Firm of the Year” category at the The Lawyer Awards 2017.
Malcolm Combe Malcolm Combe dispels myths surrounding Gaelic signage.
Alan Inglis The President of the Family Division of the English High Court, Sir James Munby has given his second judgment in two important cases concerning Scottish children placed for adoption in England.
A consultant engineer who was seriously injured after he slipped and fell on a patch of black ice in a car park has had a £125,000 damages claim against a Scottish local authority dismissed. Alan Cairns suffered “life-changing” injuries as a result of the accident on Saturday 1 December 2012 in
Graham Matthews Scottish solicitor advocates and Scottish solicitors based outside Great Britain will be invited to nominate themselves as Law Society of Scotland Council members before noon on 30 August.
John Muir A group of 58 former employees of a leading independent Scottish construction company that went spectacularly bust have won their two year battle for redundancy payments.