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A sheriff has ruled following a fatal accident inquiry that the death of a self-employed Glasgow window cleaner who died after falling off a third-floor window ledge could have been avoided. Kenneth McGready, born 12 October 1950, died while working at a properly on Lansdowne Crescent on 22 Septembe

Baktosch Gillan spoke to Law Society of Scotland president Murray Etherington on the work he intends to do during his year in office. Murray Etherington wanted to be a lawyer from a young age. Growing up in 1980s and 1990s, it was the American television drama L.A. Law which encouraged him to s

A sheriff has determined that none of an elderly woman’s three daughters should be considered her “nearest relative” for the purposes of the Adults with Incapacity (Scotland) Act 2000 after a dispute arose between the three of them as to who should take the responsibility. An undis

Former Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, Lord Wallace of Tankerness KC, has paid tribute to Her Majesty The Queen in the House of Lords in a poignant speech, ahead of the service and ceremony on the arrival of the Queen's coffin in Westminster Hall at which he will attend

An action seeking the rectification of missives concluded in 1995 for the sale of part of a farm steading in Kinross has been allowed by a lord ordinary after a dispute arose between the daughters of the seller and the purchaser as to the extent of the land disponed. Robert Purvis and his wife Isobe

Tom O’Connor travels to Poland where he finds pressure on the independent judiciary is intensifying and the country’s defiant judges in a grim mood. An EU fine of €1 million a day is, it appears, a price worth paying for Poland’s populist government which is garbing its sustai

A medical student who was unable to receive support from the Student Awards Agency for Scotland (SAAS) due to the circumstances of her residence in the UK has been successful in a petition for judicial review challenging the legality of parts of the Students’ Allowances (Scotland) Regulations

Scotland's businesses can compete in the global technology race, so long their ambition is matched with the support required to create a truly 'digital nation'. That is among the findings of the new Tech Report Scotland 2022 by Addleshaw Goddard, in association with the University of Strathclyde's F

The UK Supreme Court will soon have the opportunity to settle the law relating to the proximity issue of plaintiffs as secondary victims in claims arising from clinical negligence, writes Belfast barrister James Stitt. On 13th January 2022 the Court of Appeal of England and Wales handed down judgeme

In part one of this article yesterday, we considered the case for saying that taking timber from woodland is one of the recognised servitudes - i.e., included on the list of servitudes known to the law. On the one hand, the list of known servitudes in such standard works as the Stair Memorial Encycl

Last week, news of an accident involving Scottish record-breaking cyclist, Christina MacKenzie, spread through the cycling community and beyond. Christina holds the women’s record for cycling from Land’s End to John o’Groats in 51 hours and 5 minutes and the NC500 Women’s rec

Imagine if you couldn’t make decisions yourself. Who would act on your behalf? Who’d pay bills, manage your welfare, and make key decisions? That’s the role of your attorney. The breadth of the control an attorney can have over your affairs couldn’t have been starker in a cas

A sheriff has determined under section 78 of the Extradition Act 2003 that a man who appeared before him at Edinburgh Sheriff Court under the name Arthur Knight was in fact a wanted fugitive sought by the United States of America to face trial. Nicholas Rossi, who was accused of rape in the state of

A judge in the English Court of Protection has ruled that the parents of a student who died from a stroke could not remove and store his sperm for the purpose of later conceiving a grandchild after an urgent hearing was convened to decide the matter. At the time of the hearing the relevant person, X

A Lord Ordinary has reduced a decision of the Home Secretary rejecting a take charge request by the Greek authorities concerning of two Syrian brothers who applied for asylum there but wished to go and live with their uncle in Glasgow. Petitioners A and B, twins born in 2003, were informed that they