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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

John Macmillan MacRoberts LLP has had an impressive year with increased turnover, profits and headcount. Draft accounts in the year-end to April 2016 show turnover up by 10 per cent to £19.78 million, profits climbing 12 per cent to £6.9 million and the firm’s headcount increasing by 12 per cent

A sheriff has suggested Celtic Football Club could take action against a fan who possessed smoke grenades where the law prevented her from doing so. Sheriff Tait at Perth Sheriff Court could not impose a football banning order on Colum Martin, 24, because he had not actually set the canisters off wh

Lord Pentland The Faculty of Advocates and the Scottish Law Commission have worked together to produce a detailed study of the commission and its law reform work.

Neil Sugarman The Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (APIL) has criticised proposals by Companies House to delete the details of defunct businesses after six years.

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