Search: Scottish syndicate purchased land 1901 for £5000

Professor Lorne Crerar Harper Macleod has been appointed to all six lots of the expanded Scottish Central Government Legal Services Framework.

Bill Drummond Brodies LLP has achieved accreditation as an "Investor in People" and "Investor in Young People" - becoming one of the first law firms in the UK to be recognised for excellence in people management in both categories.

The Law Society of Scotland has welcomed new Scottish government regulations on legal aid funding of summary appeals in Scotland. Previous regulations for legal aid funding for appeal cases heard in the new Sheriff Appeal Court were rejected by the Scottish Parliament's Justice Committee on Tuesday

Following the news the Scottish governmenthas temporarily backed down over proposed legal aid rates for summary criminal appeals, the Law Society of Scotland welcomed the new regulations.

Harper Macleod has collected the Corporate Social Responsibility Award at the Scottish Business Awards in Edinburgh’s EICC.

A gritting company which claimed Scotland’s transport agency breached public procurement law by failing to hold a competitive tendering process for purchasing de-icing salt during two of the country’s coldest winters on record has failed in an appeal to recover more than £3 million. Judges in t

(L-R) Judge Ian Forrester QC and Peter Sellar

Susan O’Brien QC The public inquiry into child abuse will be the costliest in Scottish history.

The dispute resolution team at MBM Commercial beat stiff competition from CMS, Shoosmiths, and Thompsons to win Litigation Team of the Year at this year's Scott + Co Scottish Legal Awards.

Police have investigated nearly 70 alleged sex offences committed in Scottish prisons in the past five years, The Herald reports. Between 2010 and 2015, officers investigated: six alleged rapes; 45 sexual assaults and 14 reported cases of sexual harassment. All of the victims and accused individuals

Susan O'Brien QC has resigned as chair of the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry complaining that the Inquiry's independence was being undermined by government interference -- an allegation also made by Professor Michael Lamb, a senior psychologist resigned from the inquiry last week claiming that interfe

A study of Sir Walter Scott’s The Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border has been written by Alistair Johnson of the Advocates’ Library and published on the website of the Faculty of Advocates. The work explains how the Minstrelsy, three volumes of collected folk ballads first published in 1802 and 1

The Lord Advocate will argue today at the Supreme Court that the Scottish Parliament must be consulted before Article 50 can be triggered. On the third day of the Brexit case, James Wolffe QC (pictured right) will refer to the Sewel Convention as enshrined in law, contrary to UK government lawyers w

John Brett (left) and Shane Presley