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Iain Ferguson QC
David Johnston QC
James Wolffe QC
Alistair Clark QC
Ruth Crawford QC
Sarah Wolffe QC
Jonathan Lake QC
James Mure QC
Roddy Dunlop QC
Mark Lindsay QC
Anna Poole
Sean Smith
Alastair Duncan
Kenny McBrearty
Garry Borland
Roisin Higgins
Gavin Walker
Morag Ross
Jonathan Barne
Almira Delibegović-Broome
Martin Richardson
Paul O'Brien
Christopher Wilson
Euan Duthie
John N M MacGregor
Miranda Hamilton
Alasdair McKenzie
Helen Watts
Susan Ower
Chris Paterson
Ross McClelland
Practice Areas
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News
Challenge to tobacco control legislation fails
Procedural irregularities under The Town and Country Planning (Appeals)(Scotland) Regulations 2008
Martin Richardson appointed Standing Junior to counsel to SGLD
Public Procurement: NHS 24 Successfully Lifts Prohibition on Contract Award
Axiom welcomes James McNeill QC back to practice
Still Alive: Litigation Immunity from Suit
Interim orders in mental health appeals
EU law – VAT bad debt relief for solicitors: Simpson & Marwick WS v HMRC
Extradition – whether 40 day rule applies: Lord Advocate v Renata Havrilova [2011] HCJAC 113
No voting rights in Scottish Parliament elections for prisoners who are nationals of the UK under EU law
Chambers UK 2012 states Axiom "best bet for complex, high-end litigation" with 50 recommendations
AXIOM SEMINAR - Thursday 27th October 2011
Supreme Court Issues Decision in AXA General Insurance Limited and others v The Lord Advocate [2011] UKSC 46
Cross border insolvency of EU credit institutions
Axiom secures 36 recommendations in Legal 500 2011
Challenge to the Scottish Ministers approval of the Fife Structure Plan
Successful challenge to rates of interest on damages
Mark Lindsay takes silk
Mentally disordered offenders and the State Hospital
James Mure QC appointed to the Advisory Panel to the Commission on a Bill of Rights
A challenge against the Road Schemes and Orders for the Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route
Eurocentral 'letter of comfort' not binding on Bank of Scotland.
Well heeled win for Axiom
Formation of commercial contracts - modern guidance from the court
Scottish Curling Skip Vindicated
New restrictions on judicial review from the Supreme Court
Ralph Lauren appeal succeeds
Spread Trustee Company Limited v Sarah Ann Hutcheson & Others [2011] UKPC 13
Cole -v- Silvermills Estates & Land Limited [2011] CSIH 37. Arbitration.
Axiom is delighted to welcome new member Ross McClelland
Places available: Current issues in public law, Third Thursday lecture 19th May
Ban on cigarette vending machines justified and proportionate
SFA Disciplinary Committee
Unfair prejudice petition
"Springboard" account of profits
Axiom backing for recording triumph
Human rights, legal representation and children's hearings
The Scottish Lion, Petitioner [2011] CSIH 18.
Places available: EU Law, Third Thursday lecture 17th March
Gerry Moynihan QC successful in 2014 Commonwealth Games CPO challenge
Richard Keen QC, Dean of Faculty called as Master of the Bench of Middle Temple
Convention compatibility of adjudication for debt
Sarah Wolffe QC secures major win for Pension Trustees with a £20 million claim in a Scottish Liquidation
Prescription in Professional Negligence Cases
Applications to disapply the prescribed part in an administration
Prescription; whether claim made in 'appropriate proceedings'; arbitration
Multi-Link Leisure Developments Limited v North Lanarkshire Council [2010] UKSC 47
Axiom "unrivalled in the Scottish market"
Human rights, legal representation and children's hearings
Imperial Tobacco v Scottish Ministers
Roddy Dunlop takes silk
The Trustees of Niall Calthorpe's 1959 Discretionary Settlement v George Hamilton
A.M.A. (New Town) Ltd v Finlay
James Wolffe QC returns to practice.
City Inn v Shepherd Construction
Atholl Developments (Slackbuie) Limited -v- UBC Group Limited [2010] CSOH 94.
Tods Murray v Arakin 2010 CSOH 90
Integrated Building Services Engineering Consultants Ltd trading as Operon v PIHL UK Ltd
Extradition: Harazin v Lord Advocate [2010] HCJAC 65
Axiom is delighted to welcome new member Chris Paterson
Medical Certificates and Dismissal For Want of Insistence
Crofting community right to buy
Lord Davidson of Glen Clova QC joins Axiom Advocates
Euan Duthie helps tackle the pirates
Robert Phipps v. The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh [2010] CSOH 58
Petition of SNP for Judicial Review
Former MSP's defamation claim dismissed.
Collateral warranties, joint and several liability and net contribution clauses
Martin v HMA; Miller v HMA - Legislative competence of the Scottish Parliament
Scottish Lion - scheme of arrangement under Companies Act 2006
The first appeal from the Court of Session to the Supreme Court
Protective Expenses Orders and Judicial Review
Anna Poole appointed First Standing Junior to the Scottish Government
Successful action for reduction of an awarded contract under the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2006
The Defamation Directions - DW v Scottish Ministers [2009] CSOH 151
Axiom Advocates stands out in the Scottish commercial dispute resolution market states Chambers UK
EU law damages claims 2009 SLT (News) 215
Legal Services Centre Ltd.-v-Miller Samuel LLP [2009] CSOH 141. Miller Samuel LLP successfully resists multi-million pound damages claim
Commonwealth Oil & Gas Company Limited v Baxter & Another [2009] CSIH 75: Breach of Director's Fiduciary Duties.
Human rights and Civil Legal Aid
Mrs. KT or K v. Lothian NHS Board [2009] CSOH 132
Scottish Lion Insurance Company [2009] CSOH 127. Creditor protection enhanced in the Commercial Court
Albert Bartlett -v- Gilchrist & Lynn. Remedial costs; alternative remedies.
New QC for Axiom Advocates
Article 2 ECHR does not impose an obligation on a contracting state to explain all suspicious or unnatural deaths
New Standing Junior Appointments for Axiom
Scottish Ministers v Mental Health Tribunal for Scotland and MM [2009] CSIH 66
ICL Inquiry Report Published
Axiom welcomes a further two members
Axiom welcomes new member: Alasdair McKenzie
Article 6(2) ECHR does not prevent recovery by the state of property obtained through unlawful conduct
James Fleming v Ladykirk Estates Ltd
Net contribution clause upheld
Vatenfall Windpower Ltd v Scottish Ministers
Hallam Land Management Ltd-v-The Scottish Ministers
Gray's Timber Products Ltd v HMRC [2009] CSIH
Mitchell-v-Caversham Management Limited. Need for certainty in Commercial Transactions
Bothwell-v-D M Hall. Effect of expert evidence in professional negligence cases.
References to the European Court of Justice
Mitchell-v-Glasgow City Council. Landlords not liable for wrongful acts of tenants.
Legal tests to be applied by Mental Health Tribunals
Anna Poole appointed Second Standing Junior to the Scottish Government
David Johnston QC: Amid the gloom, reform and modernisation may be on the cards
Merger of Lloyds TSB and HBOS
EU law on the rise in the Scottish courts
Billig overruled
Three new QCs for Axiom Advocates
Judicial Appointment for Axiom member
Standing Junior Appointments
Axiom Advocates secure sixteen notes of interest in top legal directory
David Stephen v Scottish Ministers SLC/32/07
Fargie-v-Scottish Ministers [2008] CSOH 117
Mediation case law: current issues [2008] SLT (News) 155
Power to the Tribunal?
Common Services Agency v Scottish Information Commissioner [2008] UKHL 47
I.D.F.A. v Scottish Ministers [2008] CSOH 87
Swanney v General Medical Council [2008] CSIH 35
Milne v Gray and another: Personal liability of directors.
Tonner v Reiach & Hall applied in medical negligence claim.
Decision of House of Lords in historic child abuse cases. Bowden & Another-v-Poor Sisters of Nazareth
Petition of West Coast Capital (Lios) Limited. West Coast Capital sought to interdict the board of Dobbies Garden Centres PLC
Axiom welcomes new member: Roddy Dunlop.
Gerry Moynihan QC delivers speech at Four Jurisdictions Law Conference: Cross border issues.
Axiom Advocates celebrates first birthday.
Four Axiom Members in First House of Lords Freedom of Information Appeal on 1st and 2nd April, 2008.
Remedies and expenses in Judicial Review Cases 2008 SLT (News)51
Successful use of Article 81 of the EU Treaty defence - Calor Gas v Express Fuels
Oral hearings and special advocate procedure in parole decisions
Gratuitous alienation, illiquid claims and the solvency defence. Gillian Thompson,Accountant in Bankruptcy-v-(1) Stella Rae Sneddon and (2) The Keeper of the Registers of Scotland
Landmark decision on directors' duties. Commonwealth Oil and Gas Company Limited v (1) Nicholas Baxter and (2) Eurasia Energy Limited
Beauly-Denny Powerline Inquiry
17th January - Richard Keen QC delivers Axiom's first Third Thursday Lecture
Successful action for breach of procurement rules. Aquatron Marine v Strathclyde Fire Board
Axiom Advocates secure fifteen notes of interest in top legal directory
Mr. A. v The Scottish Ministers & Another
Landmark construction law decision issued, "City Inn v Shepherd Construction"
Richard Keen QC, Axiom Advocates elected Dean of the Faculty of Advocates
Axiom Advocates in the Scottish Parliament
Argyll & Bute Council v Scottish Public Services Ombudsman
Somerville & Others v Scottish Ministers [2007] UKHL 44
WD v Glasgow City Council
£2.3 Bn Capital Reduction - British Energy Group plc
Senior Advocate Depute Appointed: James Wolffe, Axiom Advocates
Dineley v Lothian Health Board [2007] CSOH 154
Lerwick Port Authority v Scottish Ministers
Axiom Advocates welcomes the Appointment of Two New QCs
Judicial Review. Discretion of the court in giving a remedy for breach of article 6
Interpretation of "reasonable diligence" in pleading for the postponement of the commencement of the prescriptive period under section 6, Prescription and Limitation (Scotland) Act 1973
Stirling t/a M&S Contracts v Westminster Properties Scotland Ltd: An analysis
The recent decision of the House of Lords in Lonsdale v Howard & Hallam Ltd [2007] UKHL 32 is a significant development in the area of commercial agency law. Article by Paul O'Brien, Axiom Advocates.
Court of Session rules that it is not competent for a Sheriff to make an award of expenses at a Fatal Accident Inquiry.
"Contractual Freedom versus Statutory Protection: Melville Dundas Ltd (in receivership) v George Wimpey UK Ltd in the House of Lords". Article by John MacGregor, Axiom Advocates published 2007 SLT (News) 165.
Axiom welcomes two new members, John MacGregor and Miranda Hamilton.
Court considers scope of local authority's duties as roads authority and floods authority.
Axiom launches website at official launch party
Judicial review: Early release for prisoners who assert innocence considered
Axiom Advocates - self evidently
Scotland's leading advocates look to the future