The Personal Injury Users Group met on 22 September 2025 in Parliament House, Edinburgh.

The Group provides a forum for consultation, discussion and feedback between judges, clerks and practitioners involved in the conduct of personal injury business in the Court of Session.  The Group is chaired by Lady Haldane.

The Group received an update from the SCJC Secretariat on its personal injury workstreams.

It considered draft recommendations from a practitioner working group on matters relating to Chapter 42 of the Rules of the Court of Session and topics which practitioners felt might be usefully covered in future practice notes.

The Group also discussed a number of matters relating to the mode of attendance for opposed motion hearings and case management hearings. Two days’ notice is given of opposed motion hearings, however a judge is assigned to preside over the hearing on the day of the hearing.

While the expectation is that as many hearings as possible will take place in court, parties can ask the clerks whether they may join the hearing remotely. Whilst remote access will, as a generality, be facilitated whenever it is reasonable and practicable to do so, ultimately whether or not remote attendance will be permitted is a matter for the presiding judge.