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Show me the money, or not

25 July 2023

In the case of Kirkwood v Thelem Insurance, 2023, the Inner House of the Court of Session recently shone a light on the recoverability of English Solicitors’ costs for a litigation conducted in Scotland before the Court of Session.

Pursuer entitled to protection from expenses despite no title to sue

20 July 2023

The latest case to test the murky waters of the application of Qualified One-Way Costs Shifting (hereinafter referred to as QOCs), accentuates the uphill battle that defenders face to find an exception to the rules set out in Section 8 of the Civil Litigation (Expenses and Group Proceedings) (Scotland) Act 2018.

Early stage Company issues to avoid

19 July 2023

Companies in the STEM sector often start out life as a hot bed of creativity and optimism regarding how to solve a new problem or engineer a new product. This creative and optimistic starting point can also lead to certain errors that can be hard to unwind, but which could have been avoided. Below is a list of early stage company mistakes to try to avoid:

EU-US Data Privacy Framework

18 July 2023

In July 2023, the European Commission confirmed that it had adopted an adequacy decision in respect of the EU-US Data Privacy Framework. The decision states that the Commission considers that the data protection safeguards which the Framework provides, are comparable to those provided by EU law.

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