The Tayside property market has posted a strong performance for 2017, according to annual statistics compiled by the Dundee-based Tayside Solicitors Property Centre, which reveal local homes with a total value of nearly £440 million changed hands last year. Lynne Hill, manager at TSPC’s Whitehall
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A full obituary of Kenneth Mure QC, who passed away at the age of 69 on November 18, 2016, has been published by The Herald. Mr Mure became known to the public as the judge in the Rangers tax case. He joined the Faculty of Advocates in 1975 and took silk in 1989.
House prices in Scotland continued to push up in August as two thirds of local authorities witnessed increases, according to the latest Your Move/Acadata House Price data. The average house price increased by £700 (0.4 per cent) on the previous month to reach £169,834. It is now £4,000 above its
House prices in Scotland's buy-to-let rental sector have risen by 5.4 per cent in the last 12 months, with Edinburgh and Lothians home to the highest rents in Scotland. The latest 2016 buy-to-let index from Your Move found that typical rental prices remained increased slightly from £574 in July to
Edinburgh-based Standard Life has been ordered by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) to review its handling of pension customers dating back to July 2008 amid suspicions of the mis-selling of annunities. The insurance giant said it was opening the review following a wider FCA investigation that l
Independent Glasgow firm Yuill & Kyle Limited has secured ‘full authorisation’ from the Financial Conduct Authority – the ‘gold standard’ for firms carrying out pre-sue collections of regulated debt. The status, acquired following a rigorous application process, means the West Regent S
John Sturrock QC enjoys a Poacher's Pilgrimage to the Western Isles and finds this mystical journey is much more than another travel book. The human ecologist, Alastair McIntosh has already established his credentials as one of Scotland’s greatest living authors. Soil and Soul and Hell and High Wa
A letter from Jessica M Burns: I have never felt moved to write to your otherwise excellent publication on any previous occasion but do so now in respect of the new item yesterday concerning the sad and sudden death of former Sheriff Andrew Lothian.
Plans to transform a disused 18th Century Scottish court house into a film set for legal dramas, have been submitted to the Scottish Courts and Tribunal Services to be discussed at their next meeting. The Stonehaven Town Partnership has already appointed an architect, project manager and solicitor f
An enterprising law student has set up a new website --www.brexiles.com -- to help and support young lawyers who are appalled at the Brexit decision and who now want to leave the UK. Tom Phillips, who recently completed the Graduate Diploma in Law at City University, set up the site as a response to
Brodies LLP has become the latest Scottish firm to report positive results as the economic recovery, now threatened by Brexit, takes hold.
Scottish independent law firm BTO Solicitors LLP has announced that two of its associates, Mark McCluskie and Stephen Waclawski, have passed their civil solicitor advocate exams and have been admitted as solicitor advocates. This takes the total number of solicitor advocates in BTO’s ADVantage adv
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".
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled that France was wrong to incarcerate a woman attempting to enter Britain with a fake passport through the channel tunnel. The ECJ said yesterday that EU member states were prohibited from imprisoning the non-EU migrant who is in the country illegally, an
An independent child protection review chaired by former Crown agent Catherine Dyer is to be commissioned in Scotland. Part of the Scottish government’s Child Protection Improvement Programme, the announcement for the independent review comes following the conviction of a mother and her partner fo
