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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.

Professor Hector MacQueen In the final phase of its review of contract law, the Scottish Law Commission (SLC) has today published a discussion paper on remedies for breach of contract.

Michael Dempsey Michael Dempsey called to the bar on Friday 14 July, joining Hastie Stable.

James McGachie James McGachie, legal director in DLA Piper's Edinburgh offices, writes on proposed changes to civil litigation funding in Scotland.

Hefty fines are a small price to pay for data protection that will benefit business and consumers, writes Graham Millar. Businesses that do not deal in data are a rare and dying breed.

Proposals to change the law would offer children the same legal protection from assault as adults according to the Law Society of Scotland. In its response to a consultation on the proposed Children (Equal Protection from Assault) (Scotland) Bill, the Law Society has said that removing the common la