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The owners of a pub and proprietors of properties within a tenement which was destroyed by a fire are to be awarded more than £2 million in damages after a judge ruled that the building’s electricity suppliers were at fault for the blaze. The Court of Session held that the electricity company wer

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The Faculty of Advocates has identified improvements it believes could be made to a blueprint for a new corporate insolvency framework. The UK government, through the Insolvency Service, is seeking views on whether legislative change would improve the UK corporate insolvency regime and “provide a

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Colin Hart Judges in the Supreme Court will publish their decision on the Scottish government’s "Named Person" scheme next week, with the court unusually offering a preview of the judgment to the media an hour before its publication.

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Lord Carnwath In a speech entitled “People and principle in the developing law”, delivered at the University of Cambridge, Lord Carnwath discusses three cases he heard while a judge in the Chancery Division.

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Douglas McLachlan Anderson Strathern has partnered with Visiting Arts to host their Arts & Law Conference on 23rd August 2016. The event has been arranged to take place during the Edinburgh Festival and it aims to bring together professionals from across the arts and legal sectors. The Arts is a

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A bird conservation charity has successfully challenged plans to develop four offshore wind farms in the Firth of Forth and Firth of Tay. A judge in the Court of Session ruled that the decisions by the Scottish Ministers to grant consent for the construction of the marine electricity generating proj

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ed by a flood in her engine room. Her main engine was damaged beyond repair. The flood was caused by (i) the crew’s negligence in failing to close the sea inlet valve in the emergency fire pumps, (ii) damage to the pumps, (iii) the negligence of previous contractors who had failed to seal bulkhead

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Lord Hardie The Edinburgh trams inquiry has already cost more than £3.7 million, BBC Scotland reports.

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Mike Dailly Govan Law Centre (GLC) has written to business minister Paul Wheelhouse, expressing its concern that many creditors are gaining a massive financial windfall at the expense of financially vulnerable people in Scotland who are finding it tough to make ends meet.

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Numan Kurtulmuş Turkey is to temporarily suspend the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) as part of its state of emergency declared in the wake of an attempted coup apparently led by members of the Gülenist movement.

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