Gilson Gray is planning to expand its business and have a “significant impact” in Dundee this year. The firm opened an office in South Tay Street last year and now has almost 20 staff, among them property expert Lindsay Darroch.
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A new fund to help organisations provide support for victims of crime using money paid by offenders has opened for applications. The Victim Surcharge Fund, drawn from additional financial levies imposed on all offenders who receive a court fine, has opened to bids from organisations that provide dir
Disruption can bring opportunities, and those businesses which have a mindset of accepting opportunities thrown up from the unwelcome disruption caused by Covid-19 will survive and thrive, while new businesses will emerge to capitalise on these opportunities. Initially, the pandemic led to a tempora
Yesterday was a record day for our sister publication Scottish Construction Now with over 30,000 visitors to its website. The total number of unique visitors was 30,483 – a new milestone. The free daily SCN newsletter was also sent to 10,110 readers.
Tributes have been paid to Professor Robert Rennie, who has passed away following a sudden illness. Harper Macleod chairman, Professor Lorne Crerar, said: "I can’t think of a more popular partner and well respected member of the legal profession than Robert. He was a lovely man about whom
Robert was a first-class person. He was at the University of Glasgow at the same time as I was. He graduated with an ordinary degree in law, but went on to do a PhD, (on floating charges) part-time during his apprenticeship, and under the supervision of Jack Halliday. Robert admired Jack and, I thin
Regulations to improve Scotland’s parole system have been introduced to Parliament. The proposed changes include:
Malcolm Cannon, director of the Institute of Directors (IoD) Scotland, has quit the role for a new post with Simpson & Marwick in Edinburgh, after less than 18 months in the job. Mr Cannon has been appointed as the new managing director of Simpson & Marwick's property services in Edinburgh.
UK law firm TLT has entered into a strategic alliance with Belgian law firm GSJ advocaten. The firms have significant expertise in common across a number of sectors including real estate, financial services, retail and the public sector, enabling cross border support for clients operating in the UK
JUSTICE Scotland’s Annual Human Rights Day Lecture will return on 21 January 2021 with a discussion on the Human Rights Act. Twenty years of the Human Rights Act: a Scottish Perspective will feature a panel of four top speakers, chaired by Lord Hodge, Deputy President of the Supreme Court.
Benjamin Bestgen gives readers an overview of smart contracts this week. See his last jurisprudential primer here. Part of being a lawyer in the 21st century is the necessity to develop a degree of digital literacy, whether you like it or not. The legal world, it is often said, tends to be conservat
There are advantages to having a bit of age on you when you’re a family lawyer – quite apart from the fact that you are less likely to be trying to home school your own children. If you are 40 plus you will remember family law pre-Brussels II, which is going to be useful in this post-Bre
When Justice Secretary Humza Yousaf announced plans for increased fees and a series of grants in the dying days of 2020, he said he was offering up a “significant package of support” for legal aid practitioners who had “worked hard since the Covid-19 outbreak to help maintain acces
According to a recent survey, post-Brexit Britain is considered a prime real estate proposition by investors, developers and asset managers from across Europe, China and the US. Notably, it ranked the UK highest for future residential property investment. The UK property sector reportedly attracts i
The second edition of Adrian Stalker‘s hotly-anticipated Evictions in Scotland has been published by Edinburgh University Press. At more than double the length of the 2007 first edition, the new edition states the law as at 31 May 2020.
