Search: Scottish syndicate purchased land 1901 for £5000

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Carol Anderson Scottish home buyers borrowed £1.8 billion for house purchase in the the first three months of this year, down 15 per cent quarter-on-quarter and five per cent year-on-year.

Hamish Trench The newly formed Scottish Land Commission has announced the appointment of Hamish Trench as their permanent chief executive.

The Scottish Sentencing Council (SSC) has launched a new interactive case study resource on its website. The new resource presents an interactive scenario, following the court case of “Paul”, who has robbed a shop. As web users go through the case, they decide what happens next and choose what s

Lord Pentland The Scottish Law Commission has welcomed the recommendation on law reform by the Commission on Parliamentary Reform in its report published this week.

Roger Mullin About 30,000 tax haven firms will be forced to reveal the identities of their owners following a campaign by The Herald.

A lawyer from Dundee has secured a £6 million settlement for a former prisoner of Guantanamo Bay, the Evening Telegraph reports. Dennis Edney, who lives in Edmonton, Alberta, argued that Canada violated international law after it conspired with the US in its abuse of Omar Khadr.

Two Scottish law graduates have been recognised for their outstanding achievements in conveyancing, with a top award from leading land and property search organisation Millar & Bryce.

The Prison Reform Trust has urged the Scottish Prison Service (SPS) to take a "sensible and considered" approach to smoking in prisons. SPS yesterday announced plans to achieve "smoke-free" prisons by late 2018 following research into the impact of second-hand smoke on prison workers.

Scotland’s Economy Secretary has written to the UK government to call for protection of the Scotch whisky industry following Brexit. Keith Brown (pictured) has called for the current EU definition of whisky to be applied into UK law after the UK leaves the EU.

Lady Dorrian The Scottish Sentencing Council is launching a public consultation on its first draft guideline, which sets out the principles and purposes of sentencing for all offences.

Derek Mackay It is unacceptable that police and fire services in Scotland remain the only territorial forces in the UK unable to reclaim the VAT they incur on the purchase of goods and services, Finance Secretary Derek Mackay said today.

An organisation advocating assisted dying has called on Scotland's law reform body to consider the practice in its next programme. Friends at the End, a UK membership organisation campaigning to change the law to legally allow assisted dying in Scotland, has urged the Scottish Law Commission to incl

Jane-Claire Judson A new member of the Scottish Human Rights Commission (SHRC) has been appointed.

Following last month’s Supreme Court judgment on employment tribunal fees (R (on the application of Unison) v Lord Chancellor) an order has been issued in Scotland staying cases originally rejected by tribunals. The President of the Employment Tribunals in Scotland, Judge Shona Simon issued a case