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Scottish Legal News is very pleased to welcome legal journalist Margaret Taylor as a contributor. Margaret previously worked for The Lawyer in London and as a business correspondent for The Herald. She has now gone freelance and will be contributing a regular Lawyer of the Month piece as well as an

A man accused of stalking has successfully challenged an attempt by prosecutors to lead evidence that he had previously assaulted one of the complainers.  A sheriff ruled that it would be “prejudicial” to the accused to allow the evidence of a “collateral incident” which

The EU will insist that the Court of Justice of the European Union should be able to rule on any post-Brexit agreement with the UK, The Times reports. An internal Brussels diplomatic document states that the EU will argue its court should be able to enforce the terms of a trade, fishing and security

NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde (NHSGGC) is suing Brookfield Multiplex for £73 million over the construction of the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital complex in Glasgow. The health board announced its intention to take forward legal action against the contractor last month amid a raft of probl

Families Need Fathers Scotland will be formally relaunched and renamed Shared Parenting Scotland at an event in Edinburgh on February 10. The keynote addresses will be delivered by Sir James Munby, who retired as head of the family courts in England and Wales in 2018, and Amanda Masson, partner at H

As legal projects, compliance programmes and strategic transactions become ever more complex and multinational in scope, a new breed of professional legal project manager is emerging to help manage the time, quality and cost paradigm, writes Rachel Wood. Thirty years ago the notion that lawyers woul

The roll-out of live facial recognition technology across London has come under sharp criticism from human rights and civil liberties groups. The Metropolitan Police has announced it will begin the operational use of the controversial technology in order to tackle serious crime in specific locations

Chris Kerr, a partner in the corporate team at Harper Macleod who has been at the forefront of the firm's growth in the Highlands, Islands and Moray, has been named as one of the UK’s "most daring, innovative and creative lawyers" by a legal publication. He is one of only two lawyers from a Sc

TLT has advised clean energy investor Blackfinch on the acquisition of 12 operational onshore wind projects, adding to its growing renewable energy portfolio. The wind projects, located across England and Scotland, were acquired from Harmony Energy and whilst there were some private wire elements, t

The Pensions Regulator has issued a fine – against another watchdog. The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) was taken to task by the regulator in a rare case of one watchdog fining another.

Margaret Taylor interviews Robbie Brodie of Livingstone Brown on his recent triumph at the Court of Session. When Lord Boyd of Duncansby ruled last month that an Ayr-based adult day care centre must remain open for the foreseeable future he delivered a victory not just to the father who had filed th

A Scottish fishing association which claimed that a continued prohibition on catching salmon in coastal waters and a compensation scheme introduced to support affected farmers were unlawful has had its legal challenge dismissed. A judge in the Court of Session ruled that the compensation s

The Scottish government has said legal aid is functioning well and that "any suggestion to the contrary is untrue" amid a warning that the tide of lawyers leaving the profession makes its collapse imminent. Robert More, of More and Co, said responsibility for the collapse of the system will fal

Lord Hodge has been appointed Deputy President of the Supreme Court, meaning the UK's two most senior judges are Scottish. Her Majesty The Queen made the appointment on the advice of the Prime Minister and Lord Chancellor, following the recommendation of an independent selection commission.

Digby Brown has helped secure £100,000 in compensation for a man who was wrongly arrested and sent to prison on remand after being mistaken for someone else. Gary Webb, 60, spent a night in the police cells and three in jail in 2015 even though he showed officers from Police Scotland evid