Terra Firma Chambers’ spring programme of webinars concluded on Thursday 13 May with the seventh event to date in our 2021 webinar series. Our Planning Law webinar was very well attended with 130 delegates signing up and feedback resoundingly positive. The number of attendees have been co
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A man who bundled himself into a wooden crate and tried to mail himself from Australia to Britain has made a public appeal to help track down his accomplices. Back in 1965, Welsh man Brian Robson, now 75, enlisted the help of Irish friends John and Paul in a scheme to return home cheaply.
The average volume of properties advertised on the market has fallen by nearly 22 per cent since the November peak according to property firm Apropos. The firm has analysed data which reveals that the average number of properties advertised has fallen by 21.9 per cent across the largest 20 cities in
Between December 2020 and February 2021, the average property selling price in East Fife, West Fife and Kinross was £218,393, up 11.9 per cent compared to the previous year, according to the latest data from ESPC.
Terra Firma Chambers is launching a spring webinars series with two events looking at the ways in which communities can now use the law to require the transfer of land and other property to them. There are an increasing number of community groups making applications under these provisions, which rai
A lawyer who assisted in running a £1.6 million scheme to defraud vulnerable people out of their homes has been struck off. John Craxton, 60, was hired by Edwin Mclaren, 55, who targeted householders in financial difficulty and induced them to transfer ownership in their homes unknowingly.&nbs
Ian McMonagle, tax specialist at Russell & Russell Business Advisers in Glasgow, is predicting a fresh spate of late notice penalties in the wake of changes made at the start of this tax year to how and when residential property owners pay tax on the sale of a home. The changes to the rules on C
A trustee who embezzled hundreds of thousands from a charity has been ordered to pay back £700,000 in profit. Architect Ian Brash, from Wallyford, East Lothian, admitted embezzling £358,832 from the Dr Robert Malcolm Trust between August 2010 and September 2014.
Property giant Savills has seen reported a 74 per cent year on year increase in home sales across the north east of Scotland in a post-lockdown market bounce. Savills said that the increase between July- October 2019 and the same period this year mirrors what is happening across Scotland as a whole.
A Crown Office employee who stole hundreds of thousands of pounds in drugs and cash from an evidence store has been jailed. Katherine Vaughan, 34, of Aberdeen, was employed as a production keeper for the Crown Office. She embezzled more than £90,000 in cash and stole £147,000 of drugs, i
As a 17-year-old, I first met the late, great, and sadly missed David Lessels (1949-2018) at a law school information day. I brashly declared I would become an advocate. He smiled wryly. Fast forward several penniless years to my traineeship. At last I was earning. Two years later, I even had some m
A former library employee has been accused of stealing at least $1.3 million in printer toner over a period of 12 years. A report alleges that Randall Whited, a former employee of Austin Public Library in Texas, fraudulently bought and stole toner, then sold it online.
Trowels will be left in 90 lay-bys in parts of the Highlands for people who desperately need the toilet to dig a hole and deposit their waste. Lochbroom Community Council Chairman Topher Dawson said the trowels would be an "emergency, last resort" for people who cannot access toilets.
Government officials and politicians in Ukraine have reportedly been encouraged to pre-book "VIP cells" in the event of their arrest. Remand centres in over a dozen cities are now offering gift certificates for "luxury cells", which are valid for six months from purchase, the BBC reports.
