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19th May 2022
With international travel back on the cards after two years of significant restrictions, it stands to reason that we’re going to experience an increase in the
16th July 2021
June marked the deadline for EU citizens living in the UK to apply to the EU settlement scheme - a way of regulating how long someone has lived and worked in Great![The Scope of Duty of Care Test in cases of Professional Negligence: UK Supreme Court Ruling in Manchester Building Society v Grant Thornton LLP [2021] UKSC 20](/images/cms/330x150/16263564341613153516lawsuit1610098559lawsuit1.jpg)
14th July 2021
The UK Supreme Court has recently taken the opportunity to clarify the scope of the duty of care assumed by a professional adviser in the context of negligence clai
14th July 2021
Most legal systems provide for time limits to litigation. These time limits restrict the ability of claimants to raise court proceedings after the passage of a spec
6th January 2020
An employment tribunal has ruled that ethical veganism should be protected under discrimination law. Mr Jordi Casamitjana, an ethical vegan claims he was discrimin
22nd May 2019
WJM's leading property lawyer has called on Scots to think twice before entering property raffles in a bid to land their dream home. Legal Director Graham Adams ha
21st March 2019
Whether the UK leaves the EU with or without a deal, businesses must be ready for changes that will affect their data flow processes and agreements. As 29 Ma
11th August 2017
Are you a Scottish Limited Partnership, registered at Companies House in Edinburgh under the Limited Partnerships Act 1907, or a traditional partnership under the P
7th February 2017
So called “Hot-tubbing” refers to the hearing of concurrent evidence from expert witnesses present in court at the same time, rather than the more tradi
25th January 2017
The Chancellor announced in the July 2015 Budget that higher rate tax relief on mortgage interest payments by individual buy-to-let landlords of residential propert
17th October 2016
In this Briefing Note, we report on the 7 October 2016 decision from the English Court of Appeal in the case of Horton v Henry on the question of whether a Trustee
18th August 2016
The law has never been entirely clear about how to treat two delays on a construction site, which run alongside each other at the same time but which are the respon
15th August 2016
Whether it's the Law of Unintended Consequences, or "the best laid plans of mice and men", sometimes things don't happen the way you expect. In a recent Sheriff Co
26th April 2016
A recent published judgement from Forfar Sheriff Court acts as a useful reminder of the possibility of bringing an unfair prejudice petition in terms of the Compani
15th April 2016
The English High Court recently looked at the question of when directors can be found to have traded wrongfully for the purposes of the Insolvency Act 1986, and wha
