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Ruadhán Mac Cormaic’s book on Ireland's Supreme Court comes highly recommended by Seosamh Gráinséir. Ruadhán Mac Cormaic’s book reads with such ease that you tend to forget that you’re reading an extensively researched chronicle of the cases that have shaped Ireland. Each chapter serves to

Caroline Gardner Reports finding that Scotland’s police “continue to suffer from weak financial leadership and considerable budget pressures” and that “urgent work is still needed to strengthen their finance function and improve their scrutiny governance” have been published today.

An energy company which raised an action against an engineering contractor after a major tunnel collapsed at an electricity generation scheme has had a £130 million claim dismissed by a judge in the Court of Session. Lord Woolman (pictured) found against Scottish & Southern Energy in its claim

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Legal bodies have welcomed Luxembourg's ruling on indiscriminate retention of data as a blow to legislation that undermines legal professional privilege (LPP). The Court of Justice of the European Union ruled that EU law precludes national legislation that prescribes general and indiscriminate reten

Ireland must recover the sum of €8 per passenger from airlines benefiting from unlawful state aid because the difference between the lower and normal rates of the Irish air travel tax constitutes unlawful aid which must be recovered regardless of the benefit the airlines actually derived from the

More than twenty summary sheriffs have been appointed to a role created as part of major reform of Scotland’s courts. The new judicial office of summary sheriff was created to deal with some types of civil and criminal cases in the sheriff court.

The SLN Spotlight falls on Calum Fife (pictured) this week, an associate specialising in insurance law at Weightmans (Scotland) LLP.

Thomas Ross The president of the Scottish Criminal Bar Association (SCBA) has announced his intention not to seek re-election at the group's AGM on 20th January 2017.

A move to appeal to the Supreme Court over a minimum price for alcohol has been permitted by the Court of Session. The Scotch Whisky Association (SWA) is trying to stop the Scottish government from regulating the price of alcohol in a policy it passed in 2012.

Families who had been facing a bleak Christmas are now looking forward to the big day, after a ”moving” show of generosity by Faculty of Advocates members and staff. A collection of presents, treats and more than £2,000 in cash was organised by Maria Maguire QC, and a van-load of goods was deli

A call for views on the future of the British Transport Police (BTP) in Scotland has today been launched by Holyrood’s Justice Committee. The committee will be scrutinising the Scottish government’s proposals outlined in the Railway Policing (Scotland) Bill. If passed, the bill would integrate t

EU law precludes national legislation that prescribes general and indiscriminate retention of data except in the fight against serious crime, the Court of Justice of the European Union has ruled. In Case C-698/15, Mr Tom Watson, Mr Peter Brice and Mr Geoffrey Lewis brought actions challenging the UK

The parents of a baby boy who had his eyes removed after being diagnosed with a rare form of cancer have had an action against their local health board dismissed after claiming they were “fobbed off” by a health visitor when they reported concerns about one of his eyes. A judge in the Court of S

A Commission decision to dismiss a request for review of a market authorisation decision on products containing genetically modified soybeans has been backed by the General Court because the parties making the request failed to refute the Commission’s findings that: 1) there are no significant dif