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Working with change
The spotlight is turning to making the court reforms work, but the profession will not be found wanting
Contributory negligence: precedents unlikely
Inner House says factors have to be set in context of case
Uninsured employer company – director liable?
Supreme Court finds no basis in Act to impose liability
Catastrophic injury: calculating care costs
Judge chooses model between pursuer's and defenders' experts
A case too complex for sheriff court jury?
Various factors held not to make case unsuitable
A rare case of all the pedestrian's fault
Man who ran out failed to show fault on driver's part
Going international – a Scots lawyer's week at the IBA
John Morgan, a newly qualified solicitor at Brodies, recently received a scholarship from the International Bar Association to attend its annual conference in Washington DC. He tells of his experience
No test of necessity to apply in refusing contact
Inner House refuses to interfere with sheriff's decision
Holiday leave refused where risk of children not returning
No adequate safeguards if removed to Algeria
Pre-matrimonial assets as special circumstances
Case also discusses needs justifying periodical allowance
Court sets out threshold test for permanence order
Legislation criticised as sheriff's decision upheld
Contact restoration outweighed by mother and child's opposition
Indirect contact allowed though direct not in best interests
