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15 January 2016
New rules on public procurement in Scotland will take effect in April 2016. Public bodies (“contracting authorities”) and those who tender for public contracts should be getting up to speed with the changes now.
14 January 2016
To decree, or not to decree, that is…or was…the question recently answered by the Court of Session when ruling on a motion for summary decree brought by Pursuers in a fatal case in which the Defenders had previously been found guilty of a criminal offence related to the fatality.
07 January 2016
Our look back at the changes that 2015 has brought to litigating personal injury claims in Scotland including some of the significant and interesting Scottish personal injury decisions from 2015 and what to watch out for in 2016.
18 December 2015
It’s hard to appreciate the full extent of Kirsteen’s training for the New York Marathon on the 1st November 2015. An experienced marathon runner, she put in the training for months beforehand including early morning pre-work runs and weekend ‘mini marathons’ in the build-up to the race, while also finding time to throw in the Great North Run in Newcastle in September for good measure! And all this was on top of working full time as an associate in bto’s busy commercial dispute resolution department.
16 December 2015
Some festive cheers for insurers and defender firms alike can be found in the recent judgment from the Court of Session in the case of Louisa Docherty & Ors v The Secretary of State for Business Innovation & Skills. The Docherty case provides a recent illustration of the approach taken by the Court when considering the applicable law to be applied in cross-border cases where issues of forum shopping arise.
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