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New guidance for Scottish solicitors on publishing pricing aims to help consumers better understand the cost of legal advice and services. The new guidance from the Law Society of Scotland means solicitor firms offering legal services to the public are encouraged to publish indicative price informat

Stephen Webster considers the issues surrounding the reform of commercial leases. This year, following an extensive stakeholder consultation exercise, the Scottish Law Commission (SLC) is expected to make important recommendations for the reform of six areas of Scots law relating to the termination

Rights concerns about policing, prisons and access to justice have been raised with the United Nations in the latest report from the Scottish Human Rights Commission. The commission has raised nearly 200 human rights concerns in its latest report to the UN on the implementation of the Inte

I was invited to speak at the conference of the Cyrenians’ Scottish Centre for Conflict Resolution and took the opportunity to read their very detailed report: Transforming Conflict, Improving Relationships and Lives. A very sobering read it was. Fabulous work is being done with families on th

Anderson Strathern has appointed Jemma Richardson as a director in its residential property team following growth in business. Ms Richardson joins the firm from Simpson & Marwick. She’ll work alongside the head of residential property, Sara Jalicy, and head of East Lothian operations, Grah

The All Party Parliamentary Group on Inheritance Tax and Intergenerational Fairness has published proposals for radical reform of the current inheritance tax system. The move follows two previous reports from the Office of Tax Simplification (OTS), with the APPG proposing sweeping changes.

So John Cleese famously asked in “The Life of Brian”. If you were to ask the proponents of Brexit the same question about EU legislation and the European Court of Justice, you will get a dusty answer. From diktats on the shape of bananas, to the banning of UK number plates, to the enforc

A Scots law student is set to spend the summer working with a death row project in America. Iain Mathieson, who graduated from Dundee University in 2018, will be working with the Arizona Capital Representation Project as a caseworker, assisting the organisation in its death penalty litigation work.

Ronald Conway responds to Michael Upton's recent reflections on Brexit. So John Cleese famously asked in The Life of Brian.

The Scottish Human Rights Commission has joined calls for an urgent government response to a new report detailing serious concerns about practices in Scotland’s prisons and police custody facilities. The report from the Council of Europe’s Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT) fo

Stirling solicitor Ken Dalling has today been confirmed as the Law Society of Scotland president for 2021-22. Mr Dalling will be appointed as the Law Society’s vice president on 31 May 2020 before taking up the reins as president next year. He was first elected as a Law Society Council me

Aneta Hologa has joined Munro & Noble's financial services team. Mary Nimmo, partner, said: “Munro and Noble are reporting increased demand in 2020 for our financial services advice, and as such we are delighted to announce the expansion of the Munro & Noble financial team.

A global infrastructure survey by Pinsent Masons has revealed that there is still a lack of understanding of technology across the sector, which is prohibiting change. The research, which explored the digital transformation of the infrastructure sector, found that 64 per cent of respondents said tha

So Brexit is done. My mother still recalls the news on 19 April 1945, sixteen days before the war’s end, that Germans had executed her grandfather in prison in Copenhagen for membership of the Danish Resistance. His daughter and son-in-law, my Danish grandparents, had themselves not long befor

Levy & McRae is to seek leave to appeal a decision which has significant implications for the way the profession bills clients. The firm announced the move following the decision in a case raised by former client Robert Kidd. The firm successfully acted for Mr Kidd and his business in a damages