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Andrew Mackenzie Andrew Mackenzie, chief executive of the Scottish Arbitration Centre (pictured), has been appointed co-vice chair for the International Bar Association Access to Justice and Legal Aid Committee.

James Kelly An attempt to have controversial laws meant to curb sectarian behaviour at football matches repealed will go ahead at the Scottish Parliament before the end of the season, the MSP leading the campaign has pledged.

Cat Maclean In this year's SLN Annual Review, MBM Commercial’s Cat Maclean (pictured), who secured victory for her client, Mr Carlyle, at the Supreme Court in a bank dispute case in 2015, looks at the state of third party litigation funding in Scotland – without which her client could not have h

Pictured (left to right, top to bottom): Emma Carmichael, Leigh Herd, Patricia Hawthorn, Yvonne Brady and Gillian Carty Women are leading the way at UK firm Shepherd and Wedderburn, the firm said ahead of International Women's Day tomorrow.

A 40-year-old case on the effect of arrestment of a company’s property following the appointment of a receiver was “wrongly decided”, a five-judge bench has ruled. The Inner House of the Court of Session held that the court in the 1977 case Lord Advocate v Royal Bank of Scotland, which ruled t

Graham Ogilvy

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.

Val Surgenor

Alan McIntosh Alan McIntosh summarises his new report on the Scottish government's faltering Debt Arrangement Scheme.

The Court of Session has refused to allow the relatives of a mechanical fitter who died as a result of exposure to asbestos to amend their claim in their personal injury action for damages against the state. A judge held that the new claim set out in the minute of amendment, which was lodged after t

Guy Lougher UK workers are showing significant resilience in the face of Brexit uncertainty, according to research commissioned by Pinsent Masons.

A Swedish man whose daughter was “wrongfully removed” from Sweden to Scotland by her mother has been granted a court order to have the eight-year-old girl returned to the country of her birth. A judge in the Court of Session granted the order under the Child Abduction and Custody Act 1985 after

David Hoey

A party litigant who argued that a solicitors’ firm instructed by the other party should be barred from acting because one of its consultants had previously represented her while working as a partner in a firm which merged with the opponent’s firm has her claim dismissed. By a majority of two-to

The Faculty of Advocates favours the law on penalty clauses remaining unchanged while a key Supreme Court judgment is given time to “bed in”. Penalty clauses are under scrutiny by the Scottish Law Commission (SLC) as part of its review of contract law.