“If you’re good enough, you’re old enough” is a phrase often used to justify the selection of a promising young athlete or promotion of a young lawyer. But does it work in reverse? Not according to a generation of baby b...

  Former shipyard workers from Inverclyde who were recklessly and knowingly exposed to asbestos will be among the beneficiaries of a recent highly significant judgment in the Court of Session. Lord Emslie rejected a bid by major insurance comp...

Everyday I help tradesmen and labourers who have been injured while using power tools and other machinery win compensation. The vast majority of this equipment is owned by their employer   When they are using their own tools and have accidents th...

  The Scottish legal system is in a state of flux at the moment with a number of changes under discussion which could radically affect your freedom to go to court to settle a dispute, a grievance, or to defend your rights. The most worrying, and...

  One of the side effects of the recession is that workers feel so insecure about their employment prospects that many of them are reluctant to report accidents at work, industrial or otherwise.   I increasingly hear stories of workers being ...

As the recession continues to bite, more and more companies are going to the wall, some of them without giving their employees due warning. Just the other week a large company in the West of Scotland closed its doors and turned its back on its employe...

  Occasionally the media bend the idea of raising personal injury claims into something seedy.  The tag line “compensation culture” is banded about and Solicitors are vilified for the part they play.   One such example is the...

  Much of my work in obtaining compensation for victims centres around those with diseases, be it industrial, hospital associated or blood-borne. One of my longer term campaigns is for those who were contaminated with Hepatitis C through defectiv...

  I don’t get much time for TV but when I do I love a chat show.  My favourite was Michael Parkinson, a real old-fashioned gent and excellent journalist.  It hasn’t been the same since he has been gone – Jonathon Ross and...

  It’s that time of year when the financial cobwebs of Christmas are being blown away and the pennies are counted and stacked with a view to booking a summer holiday. Last year, more than any year in the recent past, would-be holiday makers...

  It’s good to see that the Department of Work and Pensions has decided to help victims of asbestos exposure trace the insurers of their former employers, the vast majority of whom have long since ceased to exist. These diseases, a miser...

  Me and Solicitor Greg Whyte at Thompsons currently have a number of compensation cases against TUI travel, also known as ‘First Choice Holidays’ in regard to gastroenteritis and other stomach complaints caused by bad hygiene.   ...