An advocate has been found guilty of unsatisfactory professional misconduct. Lorenzo Alonzi represented defendant Daniel McFarlane at a trial in 2022.
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An Aberdeen sheriff has rejected a counterclaim by a client of a firm of solicitors who alleged that he had suffered loss and damage from a breach of contract by a member of the firm’s predecessor arising from a land boundary dispute with a property developer he had instructed the firm to deal
Scottish Legal News is sad to report the death of Sheriff Brian Kearney, at the age of 88, on 28 March. Sheriff Kearney was apprenticed at the firm of McLay Murray and Spens, in 1960, before joining Biggart Lumsden where he specialised in employers' reparation, becoming a partner there in 1965.
The European Court of Human Rights has published a factsheet on past and pending cases concerning climate change. The document has been published following the Strasbourg court's landmark rulings yesterday on three climate cases. The applicants were successful in one of the cases, and unsuccessful i
Five members of an organised criminal gang, which falsely claimed more than £50 million in Universal Credit in the largest benefit fraud ever in England and Wales, have been convicted. Bulgarian nationals, Galina Nikolova, 38; Stoyan Stoyanov, 27; Tsvetka Todorova, 52; Gyunesh Ali, 33; and Pat
The Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS) has lodged a first notice to begin the court process for a fatal accident inquiry into the death of 76-year-old Peter Tobin. Peter Tobin died on 8 October 2022 at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary (ERI). Mr Tobin had been an inmate within HMP Edinbu
A personal injury sheriff has ruled that a pursuer in a road traffic accident claim had, along with the driver of the other vehicle, attempted to perpetrate an insurance fraud and thus was not entitled to reparations. Pursuer Arif Khan raised the action against Mohammad Arshad and his insurer, AXA I
A new play that tells the tale of women's rugby in Scotland premiers this weekend. Sponsored by Levy & McRae, 90 Days was recently highlighted in an episode of the podcast Happiness is Egg Shaped featuring first Scottish women’s rugby captain Sandra Colamartino. Talking about the play she
Switzerland is failing to meet its human rights obligations by not taking sufficient action to tackle climate change, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled in a landmark case. The Strasbourg court today handed down judgments in three landmark cases, which represented the first climate
Legal figures are among the 2024 cohort of fellows announced by the Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE). Of the 57 new fellows, four are from the law.
TC Young has announced the promotion of two lawyers. Eileen Barr has been promoted to the position of senior associate within the firms Glasgow projects and third sector team.
There has been "significant progress" in the proposed settlement over claims of historical abuse at Celtic Boys Club. A judge allowed a group claim to proceed against Celtic last year over alleged abuse at Celtic Boys Club, which was established as a feeder to the senior side in 1966.
A lord ordinary has declined to make an order returning an eight-year-old girl to her mother in Russia after she petitioned the court for an order under the Hague Convention on Child Abduction after her father declined to return her. Petitioner TS, a national of Kazakhstan who resided in Chechnya in
Harper Macleod has advised on the sale of the assets and operations of the Glendevon Hydro Scheme in Dollar, by Torishima Service Solutions Europe Limited to Renfin & Hydropol Group. The scheme, constructed by Torishima in partnership with Scottish Water in 2022, was one of the first of its kind
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has begun hearing a case brought by Nicaragua against Germany over its support for Israel in its war in Gaza. In separate proceedings brought by South Africa against Israel, the ICJ previously found that there is a plausible risk of genocide being committed a
