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Addleshaw Goddard has lost an attempt to have a professional negligence claim made against it heard in Scotland, The Lawyer reports. Arthur Holgate & Son (AH&S), which entered insolvency in 2012, brought a claim against the law firm, which argued that the English courts lacked jurisdiction.

TLT posted a seven per cent rise in turnover from £82 million in 2017/18 to £87.6m this year, representing a near 50 per cent increase in revenue over the last five years. In response to client demand, TLT has made significant investments in Scotland with the acquisition of specialist re

Specialist personal injury law firm Road Traffic Accident Law (Scotland) LLP (RTALS), which offers legal services to road users under Motorcycle Law Scotland, Cycle Law Scotland and Pedestrian Law Scotland, has announced that its trainee solicitors Thomas Mitchell and Zara Jones have qualified and w

The Scotsman has published a full obituary of Sheriff Noel McPartlin. Born in Galashiels, the son of mill workers, Mr McPartlin graduated from Edinburgh University and was a solicitor in private practice for 12 years in Linlithgow, Stirling and Glasgow before being admitted to the Faculty of Advocat

Anyone who has purchased property knows just how stressful an experience it can be. In one particular case however, it turned into a nightmare, not only for the purchaser, but for their solicitors and ultimately their solicitors’ insurers, writes Karen Stachura. In the English case of Dreamvar

A recent success in the All Scotland Sheriff Personal Injury Court in a slip and trip case where the pursuer failed to prove how her accident happened has raised two issues of perhaps more general application given the looming introduction of qualified one way cost shifting (QOCS), writes Eoin Quinn

Law is not universally enforceable in the way we believe it is in theory – but “does it always have to be that way?”, Edward Snowden has asked. The American whistleblower, whose revelations in 2013 exposed Britain and America’s mass spying programmes, was addressing the ORGCo

The Faculty of Advocates’ non-practising member, Joanna Cherry QC MP, has been elected as an Honorary Bencher of Middle Temple in London, one of the four Inns of Court. Ms Cherry was sponsored by Lord Anderson of Ipswich QC (former Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation in the United Ki

An independent investigation has recommended that Police Scotland undertakes a review of the guidance given to officers regarding monitoring people being transported in police vehicles. The recommendation comes after a 25-year-old woman suffered severe burns when she set fire to her clothing in the

The European Commission has announced the opening of a formal antitrust investigation into Amazon over its use of sensitive data from independent retailers who sell on its marketplace. The investigation will consider whether Amazon collects competitively-sensitive information about marketplace selle

Via Macleod & MacCallum: Bob Glover of Inverness Food Stuff was delighted to receive a cheque from the firm's Alison Martin. Mac and Mac have chosen Inverness Food Stuff as their nominated charity.

A multi-million dollar damages award in favour of a man who sued Bayer after he developed cancer linked to subsidiary Monsanto's weed killer Roundup has been slashed by over two-thirds. Plaintiff Edwin Hardeman was initially awarded $75 million in punitive damages and around $5 million in compensato

A man has been arrested on suspicion of trying to smuggle half a kilo of cocaine across continents under his wig. Police in Barcelona Airport became suspicious of the man, who had just arrived from Bogotá, Colombia, because of the size and height of his wig.

A Hibernian fan who was jailed for confronting Rangers captain James Tavernier during a match has failed in an appeal to have his custodial term quashed. Cameron Mack, 22, who was sentenced to 100 days’ imprisonment in April 2019 after pleading guilty to a charge of breach of the peace, claime

The UK government will make a definitive statement setting out its decision about a judge-led inquiry into torture later this week, de facto Deputy Prime Minister David Lidington MP announced in Parliament.  The commitment came in response to an urgent question asked by Ken Clarke MP, who