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This week the Supreme Court handed down a judgement in the case of Dooneen v Mond, upholding the judgments of the Inner House and the Lord Ordinary (the late Lord Jones) before it. The claimants were therefore successful before all three courts. So what was their claim about? Cat Maclean and Fr

The Edinburgh office of Shoosmiths has announced three new appointments within its real estate, litigation and employment teams. With 18 years of legal expertise in real estate and property, including the past eight as a PSL in real estate, Mandy Soppitt has joined Shoosmiths as a PSL for the growin

Axiom Advocates is delighted to announce another outstanding set of rankings in the Chambers UK Bar Guide. Axiom members have obtained a substantial 118 individual rankings in the 2019 edition with the set also being ranked band 1 in a total of 12 practice areas. It is also noted that

Compass Chambers is delighted that Chambers and Partners has ranked the stable Band 1 in its core areas of Personal Injury, Clinical Negligence and Health & Safety in the 2019 edition. Compass was also ranked as a set in the category of Product Liability.

Arnot Manderson Advocates is delighted to report the remarkable achievement of thirty-three individual Rankings (including fifteen in Band 1) across twelve wide-ranging practice areas in the recently announced Chambers and Partners listings. As well as the haul of individual rankings Arnot Manderson

Iain Young points to the German Mittelstand as a model Scottish business would do well to emulate. The latest economic predictions for the growth of Scotland’s economy sit at around one per cent. This is lower than the rest of the UK and some other European nations, and there are many factors

Andrew Mackenzie, chief executive of the Scottish Arbitration Centre, has instructed and coordinated an International Bar Association study into ombudsman services. The research culminated in a report which was published at IBA Rome earlier this month. The report, written for the IBA by the Bingham

Strathclyde University Law Clinic was recognised at this year's Herald Society Awards, which celebrate projects and initiatives that demonstrate value, innovation and best practice in Scotland’s public and third sectors.

Reforms to the law are required to protect victims from online and social media-based abuse, according to a new report by the Law Commission for England and Wales. In its scoping report assessing the state of the law in this area, the commission raises concerns about the lack of coherence in the cur

American lawyer David Rudolf, whose client Michael Peterson was the focus of the Netflix hit The Staircase, has said mounting interest in crime documentaries and podcasts is helping to hold the criminal justice system to account. Mr Rudolf, who is speaking in Edinburgh on November 25th, told Scottis

A man who was shot by his Rottweiler has said he has long forgiven the offending dog. Harold Gilligan, 74, was left with three broken ribs, an injured lung and a broken collarbone after his dog Charlie caught the trigger of his gun with his claw.

A Scottish health board which is being sued by a patient for £1.5 million has had an application to remit the clinical negligence claim against it to the Court of Session dismissed. A sheriff in the All-Scotland Personal Injury Court ruled that while the case was “imp

The question of whether the UK can unilaterally revoke its notification of withdrawal from the EU is a step closer to being answered after the deadline passed for written statements and observations to be submitted to the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU). This followed the Inner House o

We are pleased to announce that Scottish Legal News has broken through the 12,000 subscribers mark with the addition of 147 new readers in October taking subscribers to 12,026. October also saw 38,629 visitors to www.scottishlegal.com and the number of Twitter followers rise to 9,221.

Terra Firma Chambers has again been recognised in the latest edition of Chambers & Partners UK Directory as one of the leading stables at the Scottish bar, retaining its Band 1 rankings for Planning and Environmental Law, Agriculture & Rural Affairs and Tax. Terra Firma remains the only stab