Millar & Bryce has announced that Professor George Gretton and the Keeper of the Registers of Scotland, Jennifer Henderson, will headline this year’s Modern Conveyancing Conference, set to take place on Tuesday 4 September in Edinburgh. Both will join leading industry experts to discuss so
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The Scottish Arbitration Centre co-organised with the Beijing Arbitration Commission/the Beijing International Arbitration Center (BAC/BIAC) the 2018 Edinburgh Summit on Commercial Dispute Resolution in China, which was held at the centre on 22nd June 2018. BAC/BIAC was established in 1995 as an ind
Ledingham Chalmers has announced a merger with north east solicitors and estate agents, Gray & Connochie. Effective from 1 July, the agreement increases Ledingham Chalmers’ headcount by 11: partners Julie Longmuir and Fiona Thomson, consultant Ken Shaw, senior solicitor James Florance and
No more than five per cent of households in Scotland should be living in fuel poverty by 2040, under a target set out in a new bill introduced to the Scottish Parliament. The Fuel Poverty (Target, Definition and Strategy) (Scotland) Bill also sets out a new definition of fuel poverty with innov
Pinsent Masons has been named law firm of the year at an awards ceremony hosted by The Lawyer in London.A panel of in-house general counsel, The Lawyer Hot 100 alumni and managing partners of major international firms recognised the firm’s achievements over the past ye
TLT has successfully represented both of Glasgow’s famous football clubs, Celtic and Rangers, in securing alcohol licences for improved match-day fan zone facilities. While a number of football clubs in England and Wales are already operating successful fan zones, these are thought to be the f
Harper Macleod has advised a community in Sutherland on the purchase of a historic crofting estate in West Helmsdale. Garbh Allt Community Initiative Estate bought out the Sutherland Estates' crofting townships of Portgower, Gartymore, West Helmsdale and Marrel – some 3,000 acres, in May of th
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A new type of land register recording all applications of community bodies to buy land or property which is abandoned, neglected or causing harm to the environmental wellbeing of the community, where the owner is not willing to sell that land, has gone live. The Register of Applications by Community
The Scottish Legal Complaints Commission (SLCC) has said it is to focus on improving efficiency and proportionality. Its 2018-19 operating plan details the implementation of new complaints regimes for ‘Alternative Business Structures’ – which will see non-lawyer ownership of law fi
Glasgow Caledonian University Principal and Vice-Chancellor, Professor Pamela Gillies CBE FRSE, has been appointed as a founding trustee of Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights UK (RFKHRUK), a human-rights advocacy organisation established to keep Robert F. Kennedy's legacy alive. Led by human-rights acti
DWF’s Scottish projects team has advised West Midlands Combined Authority (“WMCA”) on the insourcing of the operation of the West Midlands Metro to wholly owned subsidiary, Midland Metro Limited. Working closely with WMCA's in house legal team, DWF advised on the public service con
Kirsty Glennan, senior solicitor at Burness Paull, writes on impending changes to Scottish land law. Every day on my way to work, I pass a bare and neglected plot of suburban land. It is unremarkable but for one feature: it has a sign bearing the name of a local housebuilder. In 15 years, it has not
The name of a law graduate who was killed while fighting in the First World War has been added to University of Glasgow's war memorial. Captain William Campbell Church, known as Billy, studied mercantile law in 1905/06 before becoming a stockbroker.
Morton Fraser has pointed to its investment in talent as the foundation for 60 per cent revenue growth over the last five years. The firm has increased revenues by nine per cent year-on-year, topping the £20 million threshold for annual billings for the first time in its history (£21.7m)
