Search: Scottish syndicate purchased land 1901 for £5000

Private client lawyer Lisa Law has joined Ledingham Chalmers as partner in Inverness. She is one of only 10 solicitors accredited by the Law Society of Scotland as a specialist in incapacity and mental disability law — and the only one based in the Highlands.

Brodies LLP in partnership with Edinburgh Law School presents: Effective Environmental Standards, Law and Governance, a talk with James Martin, chair of Environmental Standards Scotland. Mr Martin has had a wide-ranging career in the public and private sectors, serving as the Scottish Public Service

Chala McKenna, an environmental lawyer at Davidson Chalmers Stewart, has been awarded chartered status with the Chartered Institution of Wastes Management (CIWM). She joins her colleague Laura Tainsh, a partner at the commercial law firm, to become only the second Scottish solicitor to achieve this

A housing developer that challenged the rejection of planning permission for around a hundred houses to the north of Kilmacolm, Renfrewshire, has lost its appeal to the Inner House of the Court of Session. Taylor Wimpey UK Ltd argued that the reporter for the Scottish Ministers who considered the in

Cold case investigators today released a new facial reconstruction image in a bid to identify a man whose body was found in woods just outside Glasgow more than 11 years ago. Mystery surrounds the discovery of human remains in woodland near Balmore Golf Club, East Dunbartonshire, on 16 October 2011.

Lawyer Shalinay Raghavan has been appointed as "non-executive whistleblowing champion member" of The State Hospitals Board for Scotland. Miss Raghavan has a keen interest in mental health, staff well-being and good organisational governance. She is currently head of employment law at the Scottish go

Representative bodies for solicitors in Scotland have agreed to an £11 million package that increases fees for legal aid lawyers in Scotland and supports the country’s court recovery programme. The Scottish government offer, accepted by the Law Society of Scotland and the Scottish Solici

A coalition of landlords and letting bodies has submitted a petition to the Court of Session seeking judicial review of the Scottish government’s rent control and eviction ban legislation. The Scottish Association of Landlords (SAL), Scottish Land and Estates (SLE) and Propertymark believe the

Students from the University of Aberdeen paid a trip to legal London recently to learn about life at the English bar.

Scottish court staff are to strike over pay next month. The Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) said bar officers and clerks employed at sheriff courts will stop working on February 1 in protest at low pay.

A home economics teacher in a Perth school who made a discrimination claim against her employer based on its response to her complaints of being subject to racially motivated abuse by pupils has had her claim dismissed by the Employment Tribunal. The teacher, who described herself as of Scottish nat

Dear Editor,

Tuesday 7 February9.45am - 3.30pmRoom 207, No.10 The SquareUniversity of Glasgow An event featuring presentations and panel discussions exploring ideas relating to the influence and impact religion may have on corporate social responsibility is being held next month at Glasgow University.

Friday 27th January 1pm – 4pm The Lantern, Annie Lennox Building, Glasgow Caledonian University

A Glasgow sheriff has dismissed an action by a television production company that sought over £1 million in potential lost profits arising from a TV channel’s decision to cancel a sports magazine show that it produced for it. PLZ Soccer Ltd, which produced 19 episodes of a programme titl