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The former employer of the driver involved in the 2014 Glasgow bin lorry crash has successfully defended an action by Glasgow City Council seeking to recover over £6 million it paid in settlements to claimants affected by the crash. It was averred by the pursuer that First Glasgow Ltd owed it

The UK Supreme Court has dismissed a legal challenge to the £1,012 fee required to register children as British citizens, while recognising that the fee excludes large numbers of children from their rights. The ultimately unsuccessful legal challenge was brought by the Project for the Registra

Thursday 24 February 2022 at 6pm The Scottish Young Lawyers’ Association is collaborating with Harper Macleod LLP to host ‘Spotlight on...Decarbonisation and Natural Capital’.

Final year law students Cameron Irons, Zosia Zakrzewska, James Beattie and Calum McArthur have been selected to represent the University of Dundee and Scotland at this year’s Telders International Law Moot Court Competition, which sees teams across Europe meet at The Peace Palace in The Hague,

A project that brings the law to schools has an opportunity for a new lawyer. MiniTrials – conceived by Lord Kinclaven – was launched in 2002 and has helped thousands of pupils throughout Scotland learn about the legal system.

An eel smuggler has been slapped with a record €7.2 million fine by Spanish authorities. The man, who has not been identified, will also have to serve a 15-month prison sentence after being convicted of trafficking a protected species.

Gail Docherty has been appointed as head of the residential conveyancing team at Macdonald Henderson. Ms Docherty has an impressive range of experience in the residential property market, having acted as an advisor to private clients and lending institutions, developers and management companies.

DAC Beachcroft has announced the appointment of construction litigator Jilly Petrie as a partner in its national professional & commercial risks team, which sits within its global insurance practice.   Ms Petrie, who is based in DACB’s Glasgow office, moves from BTO Solicitors wh

McKee Campbell Morrison (MCM) has marked its first year in business with the appointment of a new senior associate. The firm was established last year by Stacy Campbell, Maureen McKee Matheson, Fraser Morrison and Alan McKee.

A health board that admitted liability to a patient jointly with a private doctor for serious personal injuries suffered by her has had its contribution for the award of £2.8 million damages assessed at zero per cent, with the doctor bearing 100 per cent. Carolyn Almond-Roots attended the acci

Criminal offences associated with fireworks have been proposed in a new bill. The Fireworks and Pyrotechnic Articles (Scotland) Bill provides for tougher action on the sale and use of fireworks and the misuse of pyrotechnics. The bill follows the report of an independent Firework Review Group which

Faculty members have elected Neil Mackenzie QC as the new Keeper of the Advocates Library. Mr Mackenzie was director of training and education at Faculty between December 2017 and June 2021. During this period he built on the strengths of the existing devils’ training programme and devised and

Addleshaw Goddard's Open AG network is marking LGBTQ+ History Month in February with two webinars for clients, colleagues and connections of the firm. On 8 February, Richard Angell, campaigns director for the Terrence Higgins Trust, will discuss THT and the work they have done in the HIV journey in

A 2021 Scottish government scheme providing for the funding of milk and healthy snacks for nursery-age children has been ruled unlawful after a petition for judicial review was brought against it. The School and Nursery Milk Alliance Ltd objected to the funding method of the scheme, asserting that i

Jacqui Taylor has been assigned temporary president of the newly created Local Taxation Chamber of the First-tier Tribunal for Scotland. The appointment is for three years and is made by the president of the Scottish Tribunals, Lord Woolman.