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Roseanna Cunningham A community group with ambitious plans to repopulate a Scottish island has become the latest organisation to benefit from right to buy powers.

On Friday 15 September, Turcan Connell hosted its second inter-firm hockey tournament, this time raising £7,000 for its nominated Charity of the Year, CCLASP.The evening saw 12 teams take part in a five-a-side round robin tournament followed by a BBQ and drinks reception. Taking on the team from T

Brian Inkster reflects on innovation in the legal sector in his comprehensive review of Remaking Law Firms – Why & How by George Beaton and Imme Kaschner. Remaking Law Firms is a book that very much looks at the past, present and future of law firms and the change that might be necessary to re

A cafe in Italy could soon see former jailbirds serving judges coffee in a novel effort to give offenders a fresh start. The coffee shop in a Turin courthouse is looking for baristas who have served time in a plan signed off by the city council last week.

A party litigant who was seeking to reduce a will has had an application for permission to appeal against a sheriff’s decision to dismiss his claim and award expenses to the other side rejected. A judge in the Court of Session refused leave to appeal after ruling that the grounds of appeal were �

Val Surgenor Val Surgenor looks at changes to the notification regime under GDPR.

Alison Gilson Shoosmiths has advised coffee chain Bob & Berts on £2 million funding from the BGF to venture into the Scottish market.

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Michael Matheson The number of homicides in Scotland has risen for the first time in seven years, new figures have revealed.

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There is still time to take part in the Scottish Sentencing Council’s public consultation on its first guideline on the principles and purposes of sentencing for all offences. The deadline for submissions is noon on 27 October.

Caroline Marshall A Diploma student's hard work paid off after she was awarded a prize for her performance in a commercial contracts course.

A man known as “the German James Bond” has been slapped with a two-year suspended sentence for evading over £2 million in tax. Werner Mauss, 77, a former private investigator who has since become infamous for his work with police and intelligence services, was also ordered to donate £178,000 t

The Faculty of Advocates doubts the necessity for a general statutory restatement of the law on remedies for breach of contract. The Scottish Law Commission raised the issue of a restatement in a wide-ranging discussion paper, saying the idea was previously taken nowhere in 1999 following a mixed re

Michael J Mylonas QC, Susanna Rickard and Jamie Mathieson (instructed by Hughes Paddison) for the Claimant; Jeremy Hyam QC and Suzanne Lambert (instructed by Hempsons) for the Defendant; Mark McDonald and Christopher Pask (instructed by Axiom Stone) for the Third Party. A father who claimed that his