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The Revitalising Trusts project, a collaboration between The Scottish Charity Regulator (OSCR) and Foundation Scotland, has been working with legal teams to release dormant charitable funds for public benefit. Over 300 inactive charitable trusts of varying sizes and purposes have been identified to

Macdonald Henderson has again topped the legal adviser rankings in Scotland with 44 deals, the latest Experian M&A report shows.

A coroner's finding that the 1992 shooting by British soldiers of four Provisional IRA men at Clonoe Chapel was not justified has been referred to prosecutors. Mr Justice Michael Humphreys ruled earlier this month that the soldiers, who belonged to a specialist military unit (SMU), held no honest be

A new independent commission has been established to review sentencing and penal policy and identify the most effective ways to address offending behaviour to help reduce crime and lower the number of victims. The Sentencing and Penal Policy Commission will be chaired by Martyn Evans, former chair o

Legislative proposals to help restore nature and protect biodiversity in Scotland have been introduced to Parliament. The Natural Environment (Scotland) Bill, which will now be considered by MSPs, would place a duty on ministers to set legally-binding nature restoration targets and aims to modernise

A conference to commemorate the life, work and career of Professor Alan Boyle will be held next month in Edinburgh. Professor Boyle was professor of public international law at the University of Edinburgh between 1995 and 2017. During this time, he made an immense contribution to the scholarly life

From the Second World War the dynamics of the vast overseas empire of the United Kingdom began to change, although certain former colonies had gained significant powers before then. The end of the empire, in the sense of complete political and legal independence, came about very quickly in the late

A senior UK government minister was told by the English solicitors' regulator to stop describing himself as a former solicitor when he had in fact dropped out of his traineeship to become an MP. The Solicitors' Regulatory Authority (SRA) wrote to the business secretary Jonathan Reynolds in January i

A sheriff has ruled that it would be disproportionate for a housing association to evict a tenant under a Scottish secure tenancy with a lifelong psychiatric disorder after proceedings for recovery of possession were raised based on anti-social and criminal behaviour in Glasgow Sheriff Court. Wheatl

Ewan Kennedy explores the connections between our national bard and our other national language. In Ayrshire, Gaelic had already largely died out before Burns was born in 1759. His Jacobite father had North East ancestry and didn’t have the language. While the Ayrshire Scots that Burns spoke i

Two metal detectorists have unearthed a hoard of 15th century coins in the Scottish Borders. Keith Young and Lisa Stephenson discovered 30 gold and silver coins in close proximity dating to the 15th Century in the Cappercleuch area of the Borders.

A tax officer who embezzled thousands of pounds from HMRC to pay off her mortgage and settle other debts has been jailed for two years.  Joanne Connell, 37, used her position in the bankruptcy team and knowledge of the HMRC computer self-assessment system to add bogus credits to the records of

A triple hiring has bolstered the ranks at Gibson Kerr. Joining the firm are Angela Fyfe as a consultant in the family law team, Brittany Thomas as an associate solicitor in family law, and Sumaya Rouf as a solicitor in the personal law department.