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Westwater Advocates is celebrating the service of Christina Ballantyne, who today marks the outstanding achievement of 35 years' work with Faculty Services Ltd. Ms Ballantyne began her career with a two-month spell in the mailroom before she was quickly promoted to the accounts team, where

A recent decision in the Court of Session underlines the importance of adhering to the statutory time limits in raising personal injury actions, writes Mike Kemp. The general rule is that a personal injury claim should be either settled by agreement or a court action raised and served on the defende

Law firms and other employers have taken action to tackle mental health stigma as part of World Mental Health Day today. ScotRail, Apex Hotels, engineering company Babcock and Burness Paull LLP have joined together with the See Me programme, to highlight the potential impact of mental health stigma

A new partnership dedicated to tackling rural crime in the north east and improving safety in remote communities has been launched. The North East Scotland Rural Crime & Safety Partnership is comprised of more than 20 partners involved in rural affairs who have pledged a commitment to sharing th

Thorntons Solicitors recently visited Kingspark Primary School in Dundee to donate a batch of iPads which will help with weekly classroom activities.

A court in Madrid has found that a former doctor took a newborn baby from its mother during the Franco era and gave it away in the first trial of the "stolen babies" scandal. While he was found guilty, the incident occurred too long ago for 85-year-old Eduardo Vela to be convicted.

A claimant was reprimanded in Dublin Circuit Civil Court after addressing the judge as "love". James Flynn, 46, had been addressing defence counsel Adrianne Fields as "love" but was sharply rebuked when he did the same to Judge Sarah Berkeley.

Two teenagers who were given custodial sentences after one pled guilty to behaving in a threatening and abusive manner and the other admitted a charge of assault have had their appeals against the sentences imposed rejected. The appellants claimed that the sheriff failed to properly take into accoun

The Scottish government has been accused of “selling the silverware” of Scotland’s courts for a fraction of their value. The Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service (SCTS) began closing one in five sheriff and justice of the peace courts in 2013, despite warnings of an increased work

The Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service (SCTS) has announced plans to publish a new statistical bulletin providing quarterly data on criminal case activity in the Scottish courts for the first time. The first Quarterly Criminal Court Statistics bulletin, covering the first quarter of 2018, is now

Support has been voiced by the Faculty of Advocates for ending the tacit relocation of commercial leases. The doctrine of tacit relocation is one of the issues raised by the Scottish Law Commission in a discussion paper, Aspects of Leases: Termination.

The number of Employment Tribunal claims in Scotland has increased fivefold in the past six months following the scrapping of fees for bringing cases. More than 8,500 additional cases were lodged in the first half of this year compared to the same period last year, leading to claims the system is be

The dangers of expert evidence in a medical negligence case being based on only one witness's account where that account is disputed by another witness has been highlighted in the recent decision in Taylor v Dailly Health Centres, writes Robbie Wilson. The decision from the Outer House of the Court

The Scottish Law Commission has held an all-day seminar on homicide law reform in Glasgow in conjunction with the law schools at the Universities of Strathclyde and Glasgow.

A cross-party group of MPs and Lords has launched a draft Act of Union Bill to "rebalance and stabilise the constitutional relationships between the four nations of the United Kingdom". The Constitution Reform Group (CRG) includes Robert Salisbury, former Leader of the House of Lords; Gisela Stuart,