“Congratulations to Westwater’s Calum MacNeill QC who is the Scottish Legal News Lawyer of the month after wins for New Lanark Trust in an appeal by the Office of the …

Housing expert Adrian Stalker of Westwater Advocates acted for a homeless Sudanese refugee living in Scotland and succeeded in establishing that a local authority acted unlawfully in failing to provide …

Lady Wise has issued an important opinion dealing with “bespoke” procedure for a young person when decisions are made about his contact with siblings, in the context of an interim …

Westwater Advocates’ David Anderson has successfully represented a landlord in a Sheriff Appeal Court judgment published by Scottish Courts today. The case concerned the “streamlined” eviction procedure provided under the …

CHAS reports that December was their busiest month to date in the virtual hospice, reaching 219 families! Rachael McDonald from CHAS says “We also welcomed 618 children and their families …

Westwater Advocates’ senior counsel Calum H S MacNeill QC has successfully resisted appeals to the Court of Session by the Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator (OSCR) against a decision …

The 21st Century Bar Conference celebrates its 20th Anniversary today, with a Key Note Address from former Westwater member the Honourable Lady Wise. Westwater Advocates’ Alice Stobart (pictured) is giving …

Today members of Westwater Advocates are in action talking about the way that Brexit is changing family law.  Antonia Welsh is working with the Scottish Young Lawyers’ Association and Gillespie …

The second edition of Adrian Stalker‘s hotly anticipated Evictions in Scotland has been published this month by Edinburgh University Press. At more than double the length of the 2007 first …

Last year, an Employment Tribunal ruled that Kirsty Ure, 35, had been unfairly constructively dismissed from her post as general manager of an equestrian centre, and ordered her former employer …