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John Schorah Weightmans LLP has announced a turnover of £95.1 million for the 2015/2016 financial year, an increase of almost £6m on the previous year’s result of £89.2m.

Niall Hassard TLT's Niall Hassard, licensing legal director, has successfully represented four traders and the local Business Improvement District Essential Edinburgh to secure licensing permissions for a 'pop up' dining experience to take place during the iconic Edinburgh Festival 2016.

Pictured (L-R): Paula Skinner, Martin Darroch, Lucy-Rose Walker, Craig Daniels, Louise Torr and Jo Nisbet

Martin Gill Business confidence fell following the UK’s vote for Brexit, and is now at its lowest in over three years, according to the latest Business Trends Report by accountants and business advisers BDO LLP.

A woman who raised a damages action against a health board following the death of her care home resident husband will be allowed to pursue her claim, after a judge in the Court of Session ruled that she had averred “more than the bare bones of a case”. The judge rejected the health board’s arg

Alan Inglis In Re DB EWCOP 30, Mr Justice Baker, a High Court Judge sitting in the Court of Protection, considered whether two severely learning disabled adults who had been placed in an English hospital by Scottish local authorities had become habitually resident in England and Wales.

Police Scotland has launched an internal investigation following the loss of CCTV footage that formed part of the intelligence case investigating a leak over the murder of Emma Caldwell, The Herald reports. The video footage that indicates a link between a retired policeman and serving officer.

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Scott Whyte Three newly appointed trainee solicitors have beaten hundreds of applicants to secure coveted traineeships with Scotland’s fastest-growing personal injury specialists.

Geoffrey Robertson QC A human rights barrister has called on the UK authorities to do something about a British citizen who has been held in Iran without charge – for five months.

A road traffic accident victim who sought to challenge a judge’s charge to a jury after the jurors had retired to consider their verdict in her damages claim against the driver who knocked her down has had her note of exception dismissed because it came “too late”. A judge in the Court of Sess

Damages claims against motor insurance bureaus should be determined according to the law of the state in which the accident occurred, the Supreme Court has ruled. Ms Moreno is a UK resident. In May 2011, whilst on holiday in Greece, she was hit by a car. The car was registered in Greece and driven b