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Advocates' personal injury arbitration service to launch next month
Forty have completed special training for new procedure
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Commission offers draft Defamation Bill for comments
Month of consultation opens ahead of final report
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Appeal fails over criminal injuries "family" claim though ECHR point upheld
Inner House agrees that good reasons given for discrimination
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Child abuse time bar bill passes final stage
All-party approval for measure removing three year limitation
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Former fiscal sues for injury through stress at work
Time allowed to amend contested £1.3m claim
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Discount rate needs more regular review, Faculty argues
"Real injustice" from recent "massive" change, says consultation response
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No contest at stage 1 for Limitation (Childhood Abuse) Bill
Approval without vote after first parliamentary debate
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Resource concerns over Childhood Abuse Bill highlighted by MSPs
Stage 1 report on limitation measure also flags up impact on survivors
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Faculty finds flaws in Commission's Prescription Bill draft
Consultation response highlights potential anomalies and ambiguities
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Woman photographed urinating on Trump estate loses data protection case
Sheriff holds only breach of law founded on did not cause distress
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Consultation opens on how to set PI discount rate
Lord Chancellor's move follows controversy over new negative rate
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Ministers' order confirms new damages discount rate in Scotland
Lord Chancellor's negative rate adopted north of the border
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Company allowed to seek health and safety fine recovery from adviser
No necessary bar due to criminal conviction
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Commission floats Prescription Bill draft for views
Working version posted for comment ahead of final report
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Truss makes radical change to PI discount rate
Insurers protest at negative rate to apply from 20 March
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Insurer's statement not waiver of right to time bar plea, court rules
Statement of intention at early stage did not bar change of mind
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Combat immunity plan will "shut out justice": LSEW
Solicitors' body criticises MoD's proposed compensation scheme
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Data Protection Act damages success against neighbours' "oppressive" CCTV
UK first claimed for case based on unlawful surveillance
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Crown reveals figures for wrongful detention ex gratia payments
Twenty two cases identified over past three years; £12,667 paid out
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Child abuse time bar change has resource implications, Faculty warns
Bill submission predicts increase in number of complex actions
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Supreme Court rules on rendition and Afghan detention claims
Government appeals partly allowed but immunity plea not upheld
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Sheriff refuses sanction for counsel instructed to match other side
No "unfair advantage" straightforward case of low value
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Faculty to launch personal injuries arbitration scheme
Accredited counsel to be offered as alternative to court action
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Injured golf club member's case against committee members dismissed
Averring personal responsibility did not avoid rule that members cannot sue