Search: Scottish syndicate purchased land 1901 for £5000

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.

The Law Society of Scotland is launching a new, consumer-focused advertising campaign in October to promote the work of Scottish solicitors as trusted, regulated legal professionals.The new print and digital campaign, which will be launched on 16 October, will also raise the profile of the Law Socie

It is the responsibility of the Crown Office to prosecute Scottish Limited Partnerships (SLPs) which have failed to comply with transparency rules, a UK government minister has said. The Herald reports that UK business minister Margot James admitted that 28,000 SLPs, which are used as tax haven shel

Graham Ogilvy SLN editor Graham Ogilvy ponders the seemingly intractable problems in recruiting new judges to the Scottish judiciary.

Seventy per cent of Scottish law firm leaders believe that technology will have the greatest impact on their client relationships in the next five years compared with 40 per cent in the rest of the UK, according to a report published by accountancy and business advisory firm BDO LLP. BDO’s Law Fir

Brown (Appellant) v The Parole Board for Scotland, The Scottish Ministers and another (Respondents) (Scotland) On appeal from the Court of Session (Scotland)

Mike Kemp Mike Kemp explains his views on why the time-bar should be removed for abuse victims over 18 where there is a power imbalance.

Pictured (L-R): Martin McLellan and Donald Reid

A guideline setting out the principles and purposes behind sentencing in Scottish courts has been welcomed by the Faculty of Advocates as a way of demystifying the process for the public. The document has been drafted by the Scottish Sentencing Council, which sought views on it in a consultation.

Sarah McWhirter Travelling the country is no problem for Scottish-borders born solicitor and keen hill runner Sarah McWhirter.

The UK Supreme Court has refused to hear an appeal by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds in a legal challenge against decisions by the Scottish Ministers to grant consents for the construction of four offshore wind farms in the North Sea. A panel of three justices refused permission to ap

A suite of free courses on law in Scotland have been released by The Open University. The courses – The Scottish Parliament and law-making, Scottish courts and the law, Legal skills and debates in Scotland, and Law and change: Scottish legal heroes – come twenty years on from the historic vote f

Twins Stephanie and Madeleine Barratt, originally from Glasgow, were welcomed to the legal profession as Scottish solicitors on the same day. Graham Matthews, president of the Law Society of Scotland, presented Madeleine, Stephanie and 62 other new solicitors with their certificates at the Law Socie

Ahead of this week’s Scottish budget tomorrow, the Law Society of Scotland has called for further reforms to the Land and Buildings Transaction Tax (LBTT) and has commented on the impact of the Scottish Rate of Income Tax introduced last year. In its comment paper the Law Society has said some of

The Herald has published an obituary of Scottish lawyer Anne Shipton Middleton, who has died at 52. Ms Middleton, who latterly worked as an in-house solicitor for property and land management business Greenbelt, was one of Scotland's leading land lawyers.