Terra Firma Chambers will once again sponsor the Scottish Planning and Environmental Law (SPEL) Annual Conference which will be held on Thursday 13th September at the COSLA Conference Centre, Edinburgh. Now in its 28th year, the SPEL Conference will focus broadly on two main themes - the Planning (S
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Divorcees looking for additonal payments from their former spouses were dealt a blow after the Supreme Court ruled a woman who spent all her settlement money cannot claim more from her ex-husband. Graham Mills, 52, challenged a Court of Appeal order mandating that he pay an extra £4,090 a year
Amy Entwistle explores the details of recently enacted community empowerment provisions. Last month saw reports of the completion of the transfer to the North West Mull Community Woodland Company of the Island of Ulva. North West Mull Community Woodland Company is a Community Body (more below)
Recreational use of marijuana has been legalised in Canada. The Canadian Parliament in Ottawa passed the Cannabis Act yesterday, with the Senate voting 59-20 in favour.
Police in Turkmenistan have been inspecting bathrooms after reports of locals using newspapers with photos of the country's president – as toilet roll. Police in the western region of Balkan instructed community policing officers to inspect public toilets and private houses for evidence of peo
A woman given nearly £10 million after she split from her husband has had her maintenance brought to an end by senior judges, The Briefreports. Kim Waggott, 49, was told by appeal judges to get a job if she needs more money.
Frank Jarvis Frank Jarvis summarises some recent cases where the Equality Act was deployed against letting agents discriminating against prospective tenants.
The French government is cracking down on supermarket promotions blamed for the "Nutella riots" that recently made worldwide headlines. Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire, unveiling plans to tighten rules on sales, said: "We can't have scenes like this every few days in France."
Brian Crook More than 80 people took part in a very successful seminar in Edinburgh yesterday on the subject of “New rights for communities to buy land and acquire public assets”.
Hamilton conveyancing and wills specialists, Stirling Dunlop, and Blantyre divorce lawyers, Baker Gostelow Family Law have said both towns will benefit as they announce a merger and extend their range of services.
A report has revealed that more than 500,000 acres of land in Scotland is now in community ownership. But the figures also show that the vast majority of this land is in just two local authority areas: Highland and Na h-Eileanan Siar.
Tech giant Apple is facing criminal prosecution in France over allegations that its phones, by slowing down as they get older, fall foul of France's "planned obsolescence" laws. In 2015, France became the first country in the world to introduce legislation criminalising "planned obsolescence" - wher
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Ken McEwan Ken McEwan gives the Scottish government short shrift over the "virtual stagnation" at the top end of the housing market caused by the introduction of LBTT.
A strip club has convinced a court that an award of over £2 million in damages to a woman injured by a drunk-driving stripper should be overturned because of local dram shop laws. The Ohio Supreme Court found the stripper qualified as an "intoxicated person" under the Dram Shop Act even though she
