Search: Scottish syndicate purchased land 1901 for £5000

The Scottish Climate Emergency Legal Network is running a climate conference entitled Using the Law to Tackle the Climate Emergency on Thursday 21 October 2021 at Blythswood Hall, Glasgow. At the event, supported by the Clark Foundation for Legal Education, Ben Christman, Javier Martin-Torres a

The Faculty of Advocates and the Scottish Ethnic Minorities Lawyers Association (SEMLA) will be hosting a virtual event on the process of joining the Scottish Bar entitled How to become an Advocate. This event aims to demystify the process of becoming an advocate and will cover topics such as the ad

The Scottish Civil Justice Council is consulting on the mode of attendance at court hearings in civil proceedings. Last year, in response to the pandemic, the Scottish Parliament passed legislation making changes to the law for conducting civil business in Scotland’s courts and tribunals.

The Scottish property market continued its upward trend during May, June, and July 2021, as buyers flocked to secure homes across Edinburgh, Lothians, Fife, and the Borders, ESPC reports. The average selling price rose to £275,623 – up 7.6 per cent on the same period in 2020.

A judicial review petition by the General Secretary of the Scottish Police Federation challenging a decision of the Deputy Chief Constable of Police Scotland to institute misconduct proceedings against him has been refused by a judge in the Outer House of the Court of Session. Calum S

A group established by four Scottish law firms to benefit clients and lawyers by creating free, standardised template documents to streamline the process for buying, selling and leasing property in Scotland is celebrating its 20th anniversary. The Property Standardisation Group (PSG) launched in 200

A limited partner in a Scottish investment fund has succeeded in the first stage of an action of count, reckoning and payment against the partnership and its general partners before the Outer House of the Court of Session. Johann Herberstein believed that the value of his interest in the p

Three Scottish law schools have been included in the top 10 of the Complete University Guide's 2021 rankings for law. Cambridge and Oxford took first and second place respectively, followed by UCL in third and LSE in fourth.

Bad faith actors are making crypto-political arguments in the legal arena, the Lord Chancellor has suggested. In a speech delivered at a conference on constitutional reform at University College London, Robert Buckland QC MP suggested the concept of the 'rule of law' was being abused for political e

​Two Scottish solicitors have been shortlisted for the Law Society of Scotland In-house Rising Star Award 2021. Anna Ziarkowska, a conveyancing and planning solicitor at Aberdeenshire Council, and Angus Niven, in-house general counsel for media and production company, Boxmedia, have been shortlist

The Scottish courts should make greater use of video-link technology to reduce the number of people in custody being brought to court for short procedural appearances, prison inspectors have said. In a new report, HM Inspectorate of Prisons for Scotland (HMIPS) said there had been an increase in cou

A survey of Scottish solicitors has found that more than three-quarters think aspects of remote civil court work should continue after the pandemic. Findings from the Law Society of Scotland survey of 448 civil court practitioners have indicated that most think remote hearings work well for procedur

Prosecutors have no licence to "police a free press in a free country", a group of former lawyers who have held high office claim. Writing in Scottish Legal News today, the group, which calls itself Quis? – Latin for 'who' – argues that the Crown Office abused the contempt of court mecha

Writing in Scottish Legal News today, Quis? – a group of senior retired lawyers who have held high office in Scotland – express concerns over the Crown Office's behaviour during the Salmond inquiry and call for reform to prevent prosecutors from overstepping their role. Contemp

Her Majesty The Queen, on the recommendation of the First Minister, has appointed Shona Haldane QC, Martin Richardson QC and Craig Sandison QC as Senators of the College of Justice. Ms Haldane graduated with a law degree from the University of Edinburgh in 1987. She was admitted to Faculty in 1996 a