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Changes should be made to the way the personal injury discount rate is fixed, to avoid “real injustice”, the Faculty of Advocates has suggested. Earlier this year, the rate - a key factor in fixing damages awards and negotiating settlements - was reduced from 2.5 per cent to –0.75 per cent, th

Prosecutors have successfully challenged a sheriff’s decision to desert simpliciter a case against a man accused of a catalogue of domestic abuse charges. The sheriff deserted the trial after the Crown had repeatedly failed to disclose the telephone records of the appellant and his wife, but the C

Claire Armstrong Maclay Murray & Spens LLP (MMS) earlier this month saw the bell ring at the London Stock Exchange for the IPO of Downing Strategic Micro-Cap Investment Trust raising more than £55 million.

Advocate Niall McCluskey (pictured) has completed the Stirling Marathon, raising more than £1,900, including gift aid, for PBI a charity which assists human rights defenders. He said: “Peace Brigades International and the Alliance for Lawyers at Risk provide protection and support to human rights

Brandon Malone The Scottish Arbitration Centre has supported the London Centre for International Law Practice 2nd Annual Conference on Energy Arbitration and Dispute Resolution in the Middle East and Africa, held in London last week. Brandon Malone, chairman of the board of the centre, devised and d

Lord Neuberger In an address delivered at the Northern Ireland Personal Injury Bar’s Inaugural Conference in County Down earlier this month, President of the Supreme Court, Lord Neuberger reflects on shifts in the underlying principles in the law of negligence and the role of policy in deciding su

Whatever type of ‘Brexit’ is eventually agreed between the UK and the EU, legislation made by the EU and the case law of the European Court of Justice is likely to be important for Scottish courts for many years in the future. The way that EU law influences UK courts is likely to change however.

The fund-freezing measures imposed on Rami Makhlouf, cousin of Syria's President Bashar al-Assad, must be maintained for the period 2016-2017, the General Court of the European Union has confirmed. Since 2011, the Council has included Mr Rami Makhlouf on the list of persons covered by the restrictiv

David Gourlay MacRoberts has advised the shareholders of CLCB Holdings Limited, which includes CORGI HomePlan, in the sale of their business to the OVO Group.

A full bench is to review the procedure for challenging the validity of a police search warrant granted by a sheriff and the admissibility of evidence obtained from the search. Three judges of the High Court of Justiciary Appeal Court observed that there was “confusion” among the legal professio

Margrethe Vestager Facebook has been hit with a €110 million fine by the European Commission over information it provided ahead of its merger with WhatsApp.

David Smith Legal firms with five or more partners have had a third year of growth across the sector and experienced significant income growth rates of between eight per cent and 20 per cent, fuelled by mergers and the volume of corporate transactions, according to Scottish accountants Henderson Log

Hamish Patrick The winners of the IFLR European Awards have been announced, and a deal on which Shepherd and Wedderburn’s banking and finance team acted has come out on top.

Murray McCall Anderson Strathern experienced a small decrease in turnover in the financial year to 31st August 2016, partly impacted by Brexit, with the top line off by three per cent at £21 million against the previous year. In spite of a marginal slowdown in the corporate and commercial property

Professor Alison Britton Health Secretary Shona Robison has commissioned Glasgow Caledonian University’s (GCU) Professor Alison Britton to examine and report on the Scottish government’s Independent Review into Transvaginal mesh implants.