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The Inner House of the Court of Session acted wrongly in referring to the Court of Justice of the European Union the question of whether the UK can unilaterally revoke Article 50 and so remain in the EU, according to think tank Policy Exchange. In an analysis of the court's decision, forme

Ailie McGowan considers the significance of the Prescription (Scotland) Bill. Since the UK Supreme Court ruling in David T Morrison & Co Ltd v ICL Plastics Ltd [2014] UKSC 48 there have been a number of court decisions, which could be described as “hard cases”; where claima

MacRoberts has secured a place on the UK government’s Crown Commercial Service (CCS) public sector full-service panel. The CCS opened the tender for its wider public sector legal services roster last year and announced a five-lot framework covering regional and full-service work in March, with

Judges in courts across Scotland will from today have to take into account a sentencing guideline when sentencing offenders. The principles and purposes of the sentencing guideline were approved by the High Court of Justiciary on 30 October and it applies to all offenders who are sentenced on o

Morton Fraser is growing its medical negligence team with the appointment of senior solicitor Derek Couper. Mr Couper who has a breadth of experience in dealing with medical negligence cases and also specialises in birth injury and fatal cases is joining Morton Fraser from the medical negligence tea

Humanists have written to Scottish government secretaries Aileen Campbell and Humza Yousaf to call for Scotland’s common law offence against blasphemy to be dropped in forthcoming legislation covering hate crime. A letter from Humanist Society Scotland calls the retention of the common la

The Scottish Human Rights Commission has welcomed a report from a Holyrood committee on the steps the Scottish Parliament can take in order to become a better human rights guarantor. Commenting on the Equalities and Human Rights Committee report, Judith Robertson, chair of the commiss

TLT has appointed clean energy specialist Pamela Sealey as an associate in Scotland as part of its UK-wide real estate group and multi-disciplinary clean energy sector team. Ms Sealey joins from the energy and natural resources team at Shepherd & Wedderburn, where she completed a year's sec

A sole practitioner who failed to pay counsel for work done in relation to a number of cases has been struck off the solicitors’ roll. Jeremy Cram instructed three advocates but came up with various excuses to avoid paying them and then refused to engage with the Dean of Faculty and the Law So

Solicitors and advocates providing people with advice and representation through the legal aid scheme in Scotland will receive a three per cent increase in fees. The increase, to take effect next April, was announced as part of the Scottish government’s wider response to Martyn Evans’s i

Ross Caldwell comments on the demotion of floating charge holders that will follow the reinstatement of Crown preference in 2020. Amidst all the hype attending the recent Budget about the £20bn windfall which befell the Exchequer and was thereafter shovelled towards the NHS, one could be forgi

The Law Society of Scotland has welcomed the Scottish government's announcement of a three per cent uplift in the legal aid rates but said simplifying the legal aid system and implementing evidence-based review system for fees remain major priorities. The Scottish government’s response to the

Brodies LLP enjoyed a double success at the Law Awards of Scotland, scooping the awards for Outstanding Contribution and Innovation. Bill Drummond, managing partner of Brodies for 20 years, received the Outstanding Contribution award in recognition of his services and commitment to the legal industr

A revision of the law governing motorsports events has been proposed in an attempt to bring them back to Scotland's roads. Organisers have been unable to secure insurance since three spectators died at the Jim Clark Rally in the Borders three years ago.

Professor Steven Peers of University of Essex School of Law explains and comments on today's opinion from Advocate General Sánchez-Bordona on the revocability of Article 50. Was sending the Article 50 notification of withdrawal from the EU like jumping off a cliff – impossible to c