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Families who had been facing a bleak Christmas are now looking forward to the big day, after a ”moving” show of generosity by Faculty of Advocates members and staff. A collection of presents, treats and more than £2,000 in cash was organised by Maria Maguire QC, and a van-load of goods was deli

An energy company which raised an action against an engineering contractor after a major tunnel collapsed at an electricity generation scheme has had a £130 million claim dismissed by a judge in the Court of Session. Lord Woolman (pictured) found against Scottish & Southern Energy in its claim

Thomas Ross The president of the Scottish Criminal Bar Association (SCBA) has announced his intention not to seek re-election at the group's AGM on 20th January 2017.

Ireland must recover the sum of €8 per passenger from airlines benefiting from unlawful state aid because the difference between the lower and normal rates of the Irish air travel tax constitutes unlawful aid which must be recovered regardless of the benefit the airlines actually derived from the

Advocate General Eleanor Sharpston

The SLN Spotlight falls on Calum Fife (pictured) this week, an associate specialising in insurance law at Weightmans (Scotland) LLP.

Caroline Gardner Reports finding that Scotland’s police “continue to suffer from weak financial leadership and considerable budget pressures” and that “urgent work is still needed to strengthen their finance function and improve their scrutiny governance” have been published today.

Legal bodies have welcomed Luxembourg's ruling on indiscriminate retention of data as a blow to legislation that undermines legal professional privilege (LPP). The Court of Justice of the European Union ruled that EU law precludes national legislation that prescribes general and indiscriminate reten

A move to appeal to the Supreme Court over a minimum price for alcohol has been permitted by the Court of Session. The Scotch Whisky Association (SWA) is trying to stop the Scottish government from regulating the price of alcohol in a policy it passed in 2012.

More than twenty summary sheriffs have been appointed to a role created as part of major reform of Scotland’s courts. The new judicial office of summary sheriff was created to deal with some types of civil and criminal cases in the sheriff court.

Dogs should not be treated like children, an incensed judge ruled as he threw out a divorcing couple's bid for joint custody of two dogs.Justice Richard Danyliuk, sitting in the Provincial Court in Saskatoon, was forced to tell the pair that a dog "enjoys no familial rights" and that, unlike dogs, "

Court documents should be more readily accessible, an Advocate General of the Court of Justice of the European Union has proposed. Regulation No 1049/2001 obliges the Commission to grant a third party access to the pleadings submitted by a member state, of which it holds a copy, in a case that has a

Ruadhán Mac Cormaic’s book on Ireland's Supreme Court comes highly recommended by Seosamh Gráinséir. Ruadhán Mac Cormaic’s book reads with such ease that you tend to forget that you’re reading an extensively researched chronicle of the cases that have shaped Ireland. Each chapter serves to

EU law does not, in principle, prevent a member state from opposing collective redundancies in certain circumstances in the interests of the protection of workers and of employment. However, under such national legislation, which must in that case seek to reconcile and strike a fair balance between,

A consumer whose legal dispute over the purchase and return of a laptop 18 years ago spawned a litigation which ended up in the UK Supreme Court has failed in a £600,000 action against the bank which he claimed “annihilated” his credit rating. Richard Durkin, 46, who was eventually awarded just