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Murdo Fraser The Scottish Conservatives today warned the new Finance Secretary that LBTT rates must be reduced to avoid "virtual stagnation" at the top end of the market.

Martin Darroch Harper Macleod has been appointed as principal external legal advisers to the Accountant in Bankruptcy (AiB), Scotland’s insolvency service, for the next four years.

The right to be forgotten online will be the subject of debate on Thursday evening as some of the most talented young debaters in Scotland take part in the final of the 2016 Law Society of Scotland Donald Dewar Memorial Debating Tournament. It is the culmination of a tournament that involved 128 tea

Kenny Crawford The total value of the residential sales market in Scotland from 2006 to 2016 was just over £148.2 billion, according to a new report published today.

Over 100 delegates attended the 2016 Compensate Personal Injury Network Annual Conference in Edinburgh last week. Speakers at the event included Sheriff Principal Mhairi Stephen QC and Douglas Mill, consultant and former CEO of the Law Society of Scotland.

Brian Moore Maclay Murray & Spens LLP (MMS) is advising British Polythene Industries plc (BPI) on its proposed recommended £261 million takeover by RPC Group plc(RPC), which was announced today.

Mark Beaumont Cyclist and Dundee University rector Mark Beaumont has called for a law of presumed liability to protect cyclists and other vulnerable road users.

Gillespie Macandrew has entered into a significant legacy agreement with the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland (RZSS).

Raising the age of criminal responsibility would bring consistency across Scots law, according to the Law Society of Scotland. At eight, Scotland has one of the lowest ages of criminal responsibility in the world and the Law Society has welcomed a recommendation to increase it.

Guidance for public authorities about the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) needs to get back to basics, the Faculty of Advocates has suggested. Under the Children and Young People (Scotland) Act 2014, a duty is placed on a range of public bodies, such as local authorities

The Succession Act paves the way for a more radical overhaul, writes Alexis Graham. Death and divorce are not popular topics, but given the inevitability of one and the relative frequency of the other, recent changes are certainly to be welcomed by the public and practitioners alike.

Calum MacNeill QC Westwater Advocates’ Calum MacNeill QC represented fingerprint officer Fiona McBride in the Supreme Court in a successful bid to restore the decision of an Employment Tribunal to order her employers, the Scottish Police Services Authority (now the Scottish Police Authority), to r

Rediscovering Scotland's tragic High Priestess of the Grotesque She called herself the High Priestess of the Grotesque and she never shied away from subjects other artists would have regarded as untouchable, but since her death 14 years ago, the work of Pat Douthwaite has fallen into the shadows.

John Swinney A campaigner’s bid to abolish a rule preventing people sexually abused in their own homes before 1979 from claiming compensation could succeed after he was given legal advice that the Scottish Parliament may have the power to revise the law.

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