In this article, Gordon Watt of Terra Firma Chambers addresses the question of whether non-harassment orders are available early in the life of an action. This article originally appeared in issue 16 (May 2012) of W. Greens Scots Law Times and is reproduced here with their kind permission.  more...

In this article, Terra Firma member Derek Francis examines the ground-breaking tax case of Butlers Ship Stores Ltd & Ors v HMRC [2012] UKFTT 371 (TC) in which he successfully represented HMRC. The case concerned duty on consignments of vodka and whisky dispatched from an excise warehouse in Aberdeen which were fraudulently diverted en route to Estonia and Spain. more...