Search: Scottish syndicate purchased land 1901 for £5000

Maureen Watt Regulation of private clinics carrying out dental and other healthcare services, including non-surgical cosmetic interventions will begin next year.

Susan McPhee Drivers who are charged unfairly by private car parks have grounds for legal challenge - according to a new legal opinion obtained by Citizens Advice Scotland (CAS).

A part-time firefighter who was found guilty of wilful fire-raising but claimed that a “miscarriage of justice” had occurred has failed in an appeal against conviction. David Mackay argued that the sheriff “erred” in leaving it to a juror who knew one of the witnesses to hear the evidence an

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Philip Rodney Philip Rodney chairman of Burness Paull comes under the SLN Spotlight this week.

A report examining LGBT equality in Scotland has found that while advances have been made in legal and social attitudes towards LGBT people they still face widespread inequality. The Scottish LGBT Equality Report is a state of the nation report on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people

Police Scotland is pushing for a centralised CCTV network governing all of Scotland's streets, public spaces and shops following a warning that the majority of its current cameras are unreliable and possibly unlawful. The single force told Scottish ministers it wants to abolish the current “piecem

Lady Stacey A prisoner whose confidential correspondence was opened by prison authorities had his human rights breached, a judge in the Court of Session has ruled.

Colin Borland, the FSB’s head of external affairs in Scotland Plans to create a “lobbyist register” risk discouraging business from taking part in public policy debate, the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) has warned.

Fans Against Criminalisation (FAC) has demanded that a Scottish government minister withdraw inaccurate remarks he made about the campaign organisation's position during a Holyrood debate. Community safety minister Paul Wheelhouse told the Scottish Parliament's debating chamber that FAC had welcomed

The National Union of Journalists (NUJ) is to demand answers of Police Scotland after the force failed to deny it had used surveillance powers to spy on journalists in order to flush out their sources. Paul Holleran, NUJ organiser in Scotland, will call on police to reveal whether they used their po

Shami Chakrabarti This week's SLN Spotlight falls on Shami Chakrabarti (pictured), who has been director of Liberty since 2003. She was called to the English bar in 1994 and was a lawyer in the Home Office between 1996 and 2001. She will be discussing themes from her book On Liberty at a CPD-accredi

Marianne Russell Bond Dickinson has recently recruited three new lawyers into its Aberdeen office following its results for the 2014/2015 financial year.

Malcolm Hurlston CBE The number of business debt judgments recorded in Scotland rose sharply in the first half of 2015, according to new Registry Trust figures.

One of Scotland’s most notorious court cases, the trial for sedition of the political reformer Thomas Muir of Huntershill, is to be re-examined at an event to mark the 250th anniversary of his birth. The event is being staged by the Faculty of Advocates within Parliament House, Edinburgh - home of