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Aberdeen Solicitors’ Property Centre Limited in cooperation with the University of Aberdeen, Business School, Centre for Real Estate Research have published statistics for the fourth quarter of 2014 relating to the Aberdeen housing market. The main points arising from the report are:

In response to the announcement by the lord president, Lord Gill on the timetable for reform of Scotland’s civil courts, Alistair Morris, president of the Law Society of Scotland said: “The timetable for reform set out by the lord president is set to transform our civil courts through the use of

From left: James Shaw, Ruaraidh Niven, Neil Oxford, Edith Forrest , Sarah Chilton and Paula Chan

An application for protected food status has been launched for a Scottish barley .

Lawyers representing families who lost loved ones to the pandemic have criticised the "glacial pace" of the Scottish Covid-19 inquiry after its last set of hearings were postponed to 2027. At a preliminary hearing yesterday, inquiry chairman Lord Brailsford said it "will not be possible" for the inq

Mediation could play a far bigger role in Scottish civil justice – that was the message from a symposium in Edinburgh last week, bringing together judges, practitioners and international experts. Hosted by University of Strathclyde Mediation Clinic and Scottish Mediation, with support from the

Joe Warren, building consultancy partner at Knight Frank, looks ahead to the EPC changes coming into effect later in the year. There are lots of legislative and regulatory difference between Scotland and the rest of the UK. But perhaps one of the most misunderstood differences in property has been t

Lawyers acting for the wife of the captain of a Venezuela-linked oil tanker seized by US forces are seeking judicial review of his detention, arguing he is being held without legal authority. The Marinera, a Russian-flagged vessel, has been anchored in the Moray Firth in recent days. The tanker was

Holyrood’s Rural Affairs and Islands Committee has confirmed its support of the general principles of the Crofting and Scottish Land Court Bill. In light of broad-based agreement for a "more fundamental and structural review" of crofting policy and law in modern Scotland, however, the committe

A judge in the English High Court has set aside a 2014 judgment of the Chancery Division after the claimants, a family of Scottish dairy farmers, raised an action alleging that the decision in favour of the defendants, which upheld the appointment of the second defendant as receiver in relation to a

A landmark UK Supreme Court judgment handed down this morning will lead to a significant change in how Scottish courts handle certain types of evidence in sexual offence cases. The Law Society of Scotland and the Faculty of Advocates had both intervened in the case, relating to two men convicted of

An event being held next month will celebrate the life of Thomas Muir. Lenzie Academy, in East Dunbartonshire, is to host a symposium on the eighteenth-century Scottish champion of political democracy.

Glasgow Caledonian University has launched an academic prize in memory of a Scottish woman who was persecuted for witchcraft more than 300 years ago. Lilias Adie died in prison in 1704 before she could be burned for “confessing” to being a witch. Locals buried her under a large stone on

The Inner House of the Court of Session has allowed an appeal by a woman who raised a personal injury claim against an ambulance technician and the Scottish Ambulance Service against a lord ordinary’s decision that her direct case of breach of duty against the second defender was irrelevant in