Welcome to the latest edition of our Commercial Newsletter, bringing you essential legal updates and practical insights to help your business thrive in a fast-changing world.

Do you have customers north of the border and if so are any of your contracts subject to Scottish law? If the answer is “yes” to both questions then read on Macduff as there’s one or two risks you might not be aware of.

Friskies Schedules were used by Courts at sentencing hearings for over 15 years in Health and Safety cases. They arose from the case of R v. Friskies Pet Care UK Ltd 2000.

In April 2013, new court rules were introduced that imposed an obligation on all parties to court proceedings who are represented by solicitors and who have cases worth in excess of £25,000 commenced after 1 April 2013 to file and serve a costs budget.

Understanding who you are contracting with may seem simple. However, particularly in the case where you are contracting with a company within a larger group the position may become more complicated.

What happens when a party obtains an adjudicator’s decision in its favour but it is in a company voluntary arrangement (a “CVA”)? Will the courts enforce the decision?

With the ending of subsidy regimes for solar generation, there has been renewed interest in subsidy-free, large scale solar sites. Because of their size, these sites often straddle boundaries between several different landowners.

The government consultation on dairy contracts completed earlier this year failed to take into account the problems faced by those dairy businesses that have gone out of business.

Section 91(14) of the Children Act 1989 allows the family court to make an order barring individuals from making further specified applications under the Children Act 1989 without permission of the court.

It is generally understood that the Party Wall Act 1996 (“the Act”) legitimises activities in relation to party walls which would otherwise be nuisance or trespass. But is the Act purely “permissive”, or does it have teeth?