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The legal profession has paid tribute to Queen Elizabeth II. President of the Supreme Court, Lord Reed, said: “On behalf of the Supreme Court, myself and my fellow justices, I wish to express our profound sorrow at the passing of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.”

Interest rates are on the rise and expected to hit unprecedented levels with some observers predicting a recession on the horizon – both of which will impact commercial tenants and landlords undertaking rent reviews. An open market rent review is where the new rent is calculated as what a tena

The Court of Session has allowed an appeal by a landlord seeking declarator that a tenant of their premises at an industrial estate in Aberdeen had not validly exercised a break option in their lease. Ventgrove Ltd sought to have defender Kuehne and Nagel Ltd’s exercise of the break option dec

Courts in Scotland will adjourn today following the death of the Queen. The Lord President, Lord Carloway, confirmed the closures. He said: “As a mark of respect for Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth, courts and tribunals across Scotland will adjourn today.

Terra Firma Chambers will again provide sponsorship for the UKELA (United Kingdom Environmental Law Association) Annual Scottish Conference which will be held at the Apex Hotel Waterloo, Edinburgh on Thursday 6th October 2022. This year’s conference, the first since 2019, features a

Donald Trump once offered a baffled lawyer a deed to a horse in an ultimately unsuccessful bid to settle a $2 million legal bill, according to a new book. Servants of the Damned: Giant Law Firms, Donald Trump and the Corruption of Justice, by David Enrich, recounts how the lawyer confronted the futu

Homebuyer enquires in Scotland fell again during August as wider economic challenges impacted further on market conditions, the RICS Residential Market Survey revealed today.

Now that the 'not proven' debate has been settled, defence advocate Tony Lenehan writes about the impending juryless trials pilot and questions the authority on which it has been proposed. I cannot now remember what I was doing in 1994 which distracted me from watching the OJ Simpson trial on televi

In Oil States Industries (UK) Limited v "S" Limited; Lagan Building Contractors Limited (in administration); John Hansen and Stuart Irwin, the joint administrators [2022] CSOH 52, the argument related to the development of a new office and production facilities for the pursuer. The first defender pr

The High Court of Justiciary has refused two appeals against sentence by two men, convicted of causing death by dangerous driving and of having intercourse with an older child respectively, after their cases were heard together. Robert McDonald and Euan Milligan were separately convicted of offences

The Humanist Society Scotland has said "the time is now" for Scotland to enshrine assisted dying in law, as Liam McArthur MSP lodges a new bill following the highest number of responses to a public consultation on a members bill. A total of 14,038 consultation responses were received – th

Blockchain, cryptocurrency and NFTs can be divisive. For some they are a flash in the pan that haven’t quite lived up to the hype. For others, they are the future. Either way, there is no denying that recent sales of some NFTs (non-fungible tokens) have generated significant returns for seller

The Court of Appeal has quashed another five convictions of sub-post masters and mistresses. The court ruled that their prosecutions and convictions were an abuse of the court’s process as the evidence against them arose from software, Horizon, which was replete with bugs, errors or defects, a

Yesterday, the judgment in the case of SD as legal representative of her son, LD v Grampian Health Board, known as NHS Grampian, was issued by the Court of Session. By way of background, on 24 August 2008, the pursuer, SD, gave birth to her son LD at Aberdeen Maternity Hospital. LD suffered severe a