Search: Scottish syndicate purchased land 1901 for £5000

Families Need Fathers Scotland, a family rights charity, has called on schools to adhere to legislation requiring them to involve both parents in the school life of a child. FNF Scotland said: "The Scottish Schools (Parental Involvement) Act 2006 spelled out the obligations of schools and education

The Scottish government has said a decision has not yet been made on the planned women’s prison in Greenock. The £75 million HMP Inverclyde has been widely opposed by campaigners and opposition parties who say the focus should be on reducing the number of women being put in prison.

Commenting on the Court of Session’s ruling in the "named person" judicial review, which rejected the petition on all counts, children’s minister Fiona McLeod (pictured), said: “This decision is good news for families in Scotland. "The ruling states that the policy does not contravene ECHR rig

The owners of a hotel in the Highlands are to take their fight to have the identities of anonymous reviewers revealed to the UK Supreme Court. Martin Clark and his wife Jacqui, owners of the Tigh Na Cheo guesthouse in Lochaber allege malicious reviews were posted on the website TripAdvisor.

More funding is being made available for projects designed to tackle female offending in Scotland after justice secretary Michael Matheson today announced an additional £1.5 million would be made available. It follows the decision earlier this week that plans for a female prison at HMP Inverclyde w

The Scottish government has offered its support to Liberty’s “common values” campaign. The campaign aims to broaden understanding and respect for human rights and counter the damaging myths and misunderstandings that have grown around it.

The Scottish Police Authority (SPA) has published the findings and recommendations of its scrutiny inquiry into the public impacts of Police Scotland’s decision in 2013 to authorise its trained armed response vehicle officers to operate under a firearms standing authority. Among its key findings,

Lorna McGregor A Scottish human rights lawyer has been announced this week as one of two new commissioners to join the Equality and Human Rights Commission(EHRC).

House prices continued to rise in the third quarter of 2014-15, according to official statistics published today by Registers of Scotland (RoS). The average house price in Scotland in the third quarter was £165,197, up 3.4 per cent on the same period in 2013.

The Law Society of Scotland has responded to growing use of gender neutral titles to include "Mx" among the option of titles available as part its registration process. Neil Stevenson, director of representation and support at the Law Society, said: “We work very hard to ensure that the society ad

The Scottish Law Commission’s Annual Report 2014 has been published. The report outlines progress on the commission’s law reform work during 2014 and looks ahead to events during 2015 to mark the fiftieth year since the commission was set up.

Calls have been made for clarity over the public’s right to use railway level crossings. A decade after access rights were secured for much of the country’s land and water under the Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2003, Ramblers Scotland wants the Scottish parliament to re-examine the legislation.

The organisation representing rank-and-file police officers has accused politicians of ignorance in relation to non-statutory stop and searches. The Scottish Police Federation (SPF) has attacked politicians as well as Police Scotland’s leadership over plans to remove the police’s right to search

The Scottish Ministers have been found in contempt of court after prison officers breached an undertaking not to open an inmate’s letters. A judge in the Court of Session ruled that the Scottish Prison Service took “no steps” to inform any member of its staff at HMP Glenochil about the existen

A date has been announced for the establishment of the new Scottish Sentencing Council (SSC). The Scottish government has confirmed that the SSC will be established by October this year with a view to having a first meeting in November.