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The recent high profile case of Tylicki v Gibbons in the English High Court reiterates that professional sportspersons can successfully sue their fellow competitors for negligence, writes Ahmed Khogali. The core issue of the legal dispute concerned a “duty of care” in sport. The case exa

A judicial review petition challenging the policy of the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority to withhold compensation for victims with unspent criminal convictions has been refused by the Outer House of the Court of Session. A, the petitioner, had applied to CICA, the second respondent, for com

Advocate Michael Upton discusses CTIL v Compton Beauchamp Estates Ltd; CTIL v Ashloch Ltd and On Tower UK Ltd v AP Wireless II (UK) Ltd [2022] UKSC 18. The ‘new’ Electronic Communications Code came into force at the end of 2017, replacing a predecessor dating from 1984. It is a schedule

My cool son in the west assured me over a civilised lunch in Cottier’s, in Dowanhill, that a leisurely meal at Glasgow’s Ka Pau, just off the Byres Road, is an experience to be savoured, and he knows about such things. What a dreadful turn of events, then, that this same culinary icon wo

Review: Justice need not be static. In Scotland the lady, sans her blindfold, but with a vestige of the tell-tale scales in her left hand, once stood proudly over the doorway of Scotland’s 1639 Parliament with her companion Mercy until that building was ‘improved’ (i.e. largely dem

The Scottish government's indyref2 bill is ultra vires of the Scotland Act, the Supreme Court has ruled.

Dr Felicity Loughlin, lecturer in the history of modern Christianity at Edinburgh University, writes about Scotland’s last persecution for blasphemy as a criminal offence, and what this can tell us about changing attitudes towards religion and free speech in the Victorian age. In 1837, a

Paul Motion considers a recent advocate general's opinion from the Court of Justice of the European Union. Is a person who makes a subject access request entitled to copies of all documents such as emails?

I recently caught a very spirited radio discussion on the question of whether the Welsh Rugby Union should have banned its fans from singing the Tom Jones standard Delilah at matches. Welsh Women’s Aid took some credit for the decision having argued for years that the lyrics to the song could

Dear Editor, As Thomas Ross notes in yesterday’s Scottish Legal News, the current common law requires provocation in a murder case to take the form of sexual infidelity or physical violence. Mr Ross sought comments on the Scottish Law Commission’s provisional view that the partial defenc

Nicola Edgar compares the approaches to awards for damages following wrongful death between Scotland and the rest of the UK. For a number of years in Scotland, the appropriate level of damages which should be awarded to relatives following the wrongful death of a loved one has been the subject of mu

War and the internet … Inna Dzhurynska sits in her Dundee flat, drafting new legislation for the government of Ukraine. She’s part of a dispersed project team funded by USAID, working online to ensure that the laws and regulations governing Ukraine’s energy markets are compatible

This week Fraser Myers in Spiked questioned if it was right in a country which allegedly protects its citizens rights to free speech, that the media can hardly cover more than the basic outline of the biggest Scottish political story for years. It was inevitable that the question of the strict limit

On Thursday 29 June 2023, the Crown Office’s request to extradite Richard Sharples for serious offences – alleged to have happened in Scotland in September 2021 – called before Mr Justice Paul McDermott in the High Court of Ireland, writes Thomas Ross KC. The application was oppose

In the case of Kirkwood v Thelem Insurance, 2023, the Inner House of the Court of Session shone a light on the recoverability of English solicitors’ costs for a litigation conducted in Scotland before the Court of Session, write Mark Hastings and Gavin Aitken.