Search: Scottish syndicate purchased land 1901 for £5000

David Johnstone The demand for more transparency over land ownership in Scotland will be at the heart of a landowners’ conference next month.

Professor Lorne Crerar and Martin Darroch

Jenny Allan Five Scottish-based colleagues at CMS are included among the 31 promotions being announced across 22 of the firm’s offices.

A dramatisation of the 1528 trial of Patrick Hamilton, the first martyr of the Scottish Reformation, is being staged in St Andrews, where he was convicted of being a heretic and burned at the stake.

Ben Macpherson Figures from the Scottish legal world have been elected as MSPs in the Holyrood elections.

Four Scottish legal figures have taken up places at Holyrood for the Conservatives as the party becomes the main opposition in Scotland. Among the 31 Conservatives MSPs are advocates Gordon Lindhorst (pictured right) and Donald Cameron (pictured below) as well as Professor Adam Tomkins and Oliver Mu

Professor Eric Clive Writing for Scottish Legal News today, distinguished legal academic Professor Eric Clive discusses the consequences Brexit would have on family law.

Sir David Edward A dismantled European Union would encourage Russian militarism, a Scottish expert on Europe has claimed.

Fiona Hyslop The Scottish government has welcomed the consensus reached by the Scottish Parliament to back the campaign for Scotland and the UK to remain part of the EU.

Around 180 judges from Brazil are finding out about the Scottish legal system during a four-day visit. The Association of Brazilian Magistrates (AMB), which represents all levels of the Brazilian judiciary, chose the United Kingdom as the venue for its second International Congress.

David Stewart New research by Morton Fraser has found that Scottish independence is not a priority for UK property investment in Scotland as long as yield outperforms other regions.

Welcome to SLN's new book review feature where we review some of the latest non-fiction books that may be of interest to our readers. In our first feature Graham Ogilvy finds the war-time memoir of a Jewish refugee fleeing Nazi persecution both timely and moving while Flora Edgar enjoys a biography

Independence campaigners have told a judge in the Court of Session they asked 144 solicitors to take their case one – but were unanimously rejected. The group, which has set up a camp on the grounds of the Scottish Parliament was in court to give an update on whether it had found representation to

Book of revelations It was revealed last week that Scottish police had access to GCHQ’s project MILKWHITE in documents leaked by Edward Snowden, reminding us, in the words of Chelsea Manning, that "information should be free".

Martin Gill Over two thirds (69 per cent) of Scottish mid-sized businesses are committed to remaining in the EU after an "uninformative and lacklustre" Leave campaign, according to a new poll published by business advisory firm BDO.