Thompsons Scotland LLP has announced the establishment of the life impact team, a group of specialist solicitors committed to handling serious injury cases. The new team consolidates extensive expertise to pursue justice for survivors of historical abuse, individuals with complex or catastrophic inj
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Literature is another casualty of our ailing civilisation. David J Black discusses the simulacrum left in its wake. See part one here. Unlike her risque predecessors Jilly Cooper and Joanna Trollope, Ms Rooney enjoys the honorific sobriquet "the voice of a generation", in which office she has seemin
In ATG Services (Scotland) Limited v Ogilvie Construction Limited [2024] CSOH 94, Lord Sandison delivered a stark warning about ‘unjustified’ challenges to the enforcement of adjudication decisions, writes Kate Ross. In this case, ATG Services (a subcontractor) had launched a “smas
A monkey in a pink tutu has been apprehended by police in the US. The fashionable spider monkey was staying at a home in Jefferson County, Missouri when it "managed to open a door and get outside", police said.
Westwater Advocates has welcomed Isabella Ennis KC back to civil practice from the Crown Office. Ms Ennis, whose main areas of practice are family law and personal injury, said that she was excited to return to Westwater Advocates.
A former Supreme Court president has said that parents who have to fight for access to their children without legal representation are being deprived of their human rights. Lord Neuberger, who was the UK's most senior judge from 2012 to 2017, told The Guardian that the removal of legal aid from fami
Edinburgh Law School's Professor James Harrison is to deliver his inaugural lecture on a fundamental question of environmental legal scholarship: how much environmental protection can we expect environmental law to deliver? Whilst protection of the environment is undoubtedly the underlying obj
An appeal by two company directors against a sheriff’s decision they had acted unfairly towards a former director who was dismissed unilaterally after a period of serious illness has been refused by the Sheriff Appeal Court. Pursuer and respondent Stephen Miller originally raised the action ag
In the second part of his analysis of the Lockerbie case, Ronnie Clancy KC, who was Crown counsel in the appeals, looks at the issues surrounding the timer used for the bomb and the famous suitcase. Read part one here. As matters stand in the aftermath of the latest Lockerbie appeal, the most promin
David J Black exemplifies Juvenal's dictum that "It is difficult not to write satire". Literary criticism will not be the purpose of this exercise, so those anticipating a promotional puff for Intermezzo or anything else by the much celebrated Sally Rooney may be disappointed. It’s usually a r
Prisoners have a right to conjugal visits that cannot be refused on the basis of inadequate facilities, Italy's top court has ruled. The Supreme Court of Cassation last month ruled in favour of an anonymous 34-year-old prisoner who was denied private time with his wife on the basis that the structur
MJC LAW has announced the appointment of Emma Downey as its new operations manager. She spent the last 14 years working as an estate agent at Cochran Dickie Estate Agents, where she built a strong reputation for exceptional client service and operational efficiency. Prior to that, she honed he
Criminal barristers in Northern Ireland have begun a month-long boycott of legally aided Crown Court cases in an escalation of their campaign for fee increases. The Criminal Bar Association (CBA) announced the boycott last month following disappointment over the Department of Justice's response
