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The King’s and Lord Treasurer’s Remembrancer (KLTR), the Crown’s representative responsible for ownerless property in Scotland, has welcomed today’s publication of the findings of the Treasure Trove Review launched last year. The review’s report makes detailed recommend

Experts from the Council of Europe have urged the UK to adopt language strategies for Irish and Ulster Scots and to strengthen the teaching of all regional or minority languages in the UK, including Cornish, Scots, Gaelic and Welsh as well as Manx Gaelic. These were among the main recommendations in

The Crown Office has lodged a first notice to begin the court process for a fatal accident inquiry (FAI) into the death of Matthew Peter Burden. Mr Burden, 36, who was employed as a gamekeeper by East Tillypronie Sporting Ltd, Tillypronie Estate, in Aberdeenshire, died on 6 February 2022, after an a

With the end of Soviet Russia, there was little in the way of precedent or planning for the political class to follow in the move to a new society and economy. A socialist state does not plan for its own demise. There was in existence a system of public administration and legislation, but the moves

A rapist who sexually abused two young girls during sleepovers at his home has been jailed. Alexander Hunter was found guilty of seven charges on August 21 following a trial at the High Court in Edinburgh.

Clyde & Co has announced a raft of promotions across its Edinburgh and Glasgow offices. A total of 13 promotions have been made, strengthening the firm’s expertise within its healthcare, disease, SHE & regulatory and catastrophic injury teams.

Three of Lindsays' teams have recently welcomed new solicitors. In Edinburgh, Shiona Wylie has joined the private client team in her first role as a qualified solicitor. head of private client, partner Grant Johnson said: “We are pleased to welcome Shiona to our team and look forward to seeing

A teenage girl has been apprehended after allegedly taking a New York City subway train on a joyride and crashing it. Police say the 17-year-old, along with a companion who has not yet been caught, boarded the empty train just after midnight last Thursday 12 September.

Gillespie Macandrew has appointed five newly qualified solicitors, each of whom has completed their two-year legal traineeship programme. The newly qualified solicitors are Jenny Purdie specialising in private client, Jenna Wayth in construction dispute resolution, Thomas Anderson in land & rura

The ‘new’ Electronic Communications Code came into force at the end of 2017. It is a schedule to the Communications Act 2003. It governs telecoms masts and other ‘electronic communications apparatus’; specifically, relations between their operators and the owners or tenants o

Family lawyers and child law litigators are not the only ones concerned with children: criminal lawyers, probably somewhat behind sociologists and criminologists, will have noted the number of young children arrested and charged with serious crimes. The police and court activity following widespread

The Inner House of the Court of Session has refused an appeal by a doctor against the removal of his name from the medical register following his conviction for a domestically aggravated offence under section 38(1) of the Criminal Justice and Licensing (Scotland) Act 2010. Dr Muhammad Masood was mad

The King’s and Lord Treasurer’s Remembrancer (KLTR) has announced his decision to transfer Campsie High Kirk in Lennoxtown into community ownership for use as an arts, cultural and community events hub.

The opening of the legal year is to be livestreamed for the first time from the Court of Session. On Monday 23 September, the ceremony to mark the beginning of the 2024-25 term will be available to watch as it happens on the Scottish Courts and Tribunals website.