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According to the Office of Fair Trading, the market in personal current accounts is not working well for consumers. The OFT report on the issue found that much of banks’ revenue from current accounts is derived opaquely, with 81 per … Continue reading →

BBC News is reporting that Stirling Council may stop charging the elderly for food preparation services. Only eight Councils in Scotland currently charge for the service, and some local authorities have begun paying back people charged for the service. Scottish … Continue reading →

The Scotsman is reporting that a company which pled guilty to polluting of the water environment was fined a mere £3,000 for causing an oil slick that spread for nine miles across the Firth of Forth. The maximum fine faced … Continue reading →

A government run database holding the telephone and internet communications of the entire population would raise serious data protection concerns, the Information Commissioner, warned today. Commenting on speculation that the government is considering the development of such a database Richard … Continue reading →

Further to news of plans for a new law centre for Fife, there’s more good news in the form of Govanhill Law Centre. Govan Law Centre are to open a Govanhill Law Centre in partnership with the Govanhill Housing Association … Continue reading →

Kevin Dunion, Scottish Information Commissioner, has welcomed the House of Lords ruling on the appeal by the Common Services Agency against a Court of Session judgement in favour of his decision in the case of Michael Collie and the CSA. … Continue reading →

Yes, I’m on my holidays in Perthshire, so the blog will be updated less frequently for a little while. Of course, the Absolvitor Scots Law Firms Gazetteer has an impressive list of Law Firms in Perth & Kinross for you … Continue reading →

The High Court has ruled that Pringles are not potato crisps. The delicious and addictive snacks are only 42 per cent potato and the judge decided that they were not therefore “wholly, or substantially wholly, made from the potato.” The … Continue reading →

The Electronic Frontier Foundation are reporting that a court ruling will expose the viewing habits of YouTube users. As part of the ongoing Viacom v. Google litigation, the federal court for the Southern District of New York has ordered that … Continue reading →

The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) has recently granted a licence to the Clinical Sciences Research Institute, University of Warwick, which permits the creation of human-pig hybrid embryos for research purposes. This licence is purportedly enacted under the Human … Continue reading →