Bill of health

Scottish Law Commission chairman Lord Pentland has written a well-timed article to promote the widely-welcomed reforms proposed in his Defamation Bill. Writing in the Journal of the Law Society of Scotland, Pentland said: “The law has become increasingly antiquated, inaccessible and difficult to advise on.”

The bill introduces a serious harm test to weed out frivolous claims and to bring legislation into line with English law, and