Latest News From Complete Clarity Solicitors

New legislation to bring about the biggest modernisation of Scotland’s courts in a generation has been passed by the Scottish Parliament.

New rights came into force on 1st October 2014 that give consumers greater powers to challenge rogue traders and get their money back.

In a decision that has been welcomed by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), the Supreme Court has recently ruled that a consumer who entered into a doorstep selling contract was entitled to cancel his contract and get his money back when a trader failed to tell him about his legal right to cancel.

A Stonehaven animal feed company has been fined after a lorry driver was crushed to death when a two-tonne, fully-loaded grain bin fell onto him from a forklift truck.

Last week saw the official opening of Aberdeen’s Civil Justice Centre and Commercial Court, in a ceremony that was attended by Scotland’s most senior judge, the Lord President and the Cabinet Secretary of Justice Kenny MacAskill MSP. The new court is located in the building previously occupied by the Justice of the Peace Court.  

There has been a 38% increase in issues caused by people without rent arrears being threatened with eviction from a private sector rented home, the Citizens Advice has said.

In a move that could help to reduce the number of disputes in the property letting sector, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has published guidance for lettings professionals to help improve their understanding of, and compliance with, consumer protection law.

There is a big difference in the level of fees being charged by councils for processing applications made by residents under the High Hedges (Scotland) Act, the Herald has reported.

Complete Clarity Solicitors, one of Scotland's leading law firms, continues to support British Boxing Champion, Harry Peacock as he remains to take on the best young boxing talent in the UK.

Complete Clarity Solicitors are exceptionally delighted to update the progress of Scotland's young boxing hopeful Harry Peacock.

The latest Quarterly House Price Statistical Report, from the Registers of Scotland (ROS) shows encouraging signs for Scotland's residential property market.

Human rights organisation Liberty has announced that it has been granted permission to bring a Judicial Review of the Government’s controversial “bedroom tax”, based on the policy’s impact on separated families with shared custody of children.

Complete Clarity Solicitors are delighted to announce that Scotland's most promising young boxing prospect Harry Peacock will in May 2014 fight for the British Boxing Title.

An initiative by the European Commission to help businesses recover millions of euros that are currently lost each year in cross-border debts has now received the backing of the European Parliament.

At the Law Society of Scotland's annual general meeting, the Lord President has strongly defended the Courts Reform (Scotland) Bill in his speech entitled ‘Looking over the horizon – life after the Courts Reform Bill’

Complete Clarity Solicitors are proud to announce that we have signed up to offer discounted legal services to serving and former members of the UK’s military.

Complete Clarity Solicitors are delighted to announce our sponsorship of one of Scotland's youngest boxing prospects, Harry Peacock! 

Proposed measures to assist local authorities in recouping the costs they incur in making defective or dangerous buildings safe have been welcomed by the Scottish Parliament’s Local Government and Regeneration Committee.

Resolving disputes between neighbours over the size of garden hedges should become a bit easier after a new Act comes into effect in April this year.

The Supreme Court has recently given its ruling in a contractual dispute involving the lease to a grouse moor.