Search: Scottish syndicate purchased land 1901 for £5000

MacRoberts has been recognised at the British Legal Awards for the third year running. The corporate finance team was awarded the ‘Highly Commended’ accolade in the M&A Team of the Year category at the ceremony in London. MacRoberts, the only independent Scottish firm recognised at t

Delays in the planning system will be put in the spotlight by Scotland’s senior judge and a leading planning QC at a seminar. Lord Carloway, the Lord President, is to examine the court’s approach to delays at the event being held by the Faculty of Advocates’ Scottish Planning, Loca

Expert contributors will help prepare practitioners for what they need to know about Joint Investigative Interviews (JIIs) for courts, children's hearings, child protection and other professional practice at a conference in January. The JII 2020 Masterclass conference, addressing a current and impor

A man serving a life sentence for murder who claimed that his human rights were breached after his “confidential” letters were opened by prison officers has had a £5,000 damages action dismissed. “Limbs in the Loch” murderer William Beggs raised a petition for

The Scottish Parliament’s Justice Committee has concluded that real-terms increases in the revenue and capital budgets for the Scottish Prison Service are needed for 2020/21. The committee is also calling for changes to the post-conviction landscape in Scotland.

The University of Aberdeen is conducting a research project on the reform of the UK laws on surrogacy and is looking for legal practitioners with experience and/or interest in surrogacy to take part. The project is funded by the Clark Foundation for Legal Education and the key objective is to help t

The Joint Standing Committee for Legal Education in Scotland (JSC) is looking for a lay representative. The JSC is a consultative body comprised of representatives drawn from the main branches of the legal profession and the universities, the aims and purposes of which are to act as a facilitator pr

Courts can, in appropriate cases, devise a remedy to protect the good faith purchaser in a gratuitous alienation, the Supreme Court has concluded in a case that turned on the meaning of “adequate consideration” in the Insolvency Act 1986 and which has been remitted to the Inner House of

An event to be held in January will deliver a masterclass in joint investigative interviews (JIIs). Getting It Right For Every Child Witness is necessary and achievable. Children can be good witnesses when adults are good questioners, as this short animation by Professor Martine Powell and her colle

A young artist has been “thrilled” to be given the commission to paint a portrait of the foremost woman in Scottish legal history, Lady Dorrian, the Lord Justice Clerk. The Faculty of Advocates wanted to honour Lady Dorrian, one of its members, on her achievement of becoming Lord Justice

Scotland’s first purpose-built justice centre will open on 30 March 2020.

Dr Nick McKerrell has been promoted to the post of senior lecturer in law at Glasgow Caledonian University. Dr McKerrell teaches mainly in the area of public law, human rights and civil liberties. He also introduces first-year LLB students into the study of law and the Scottish legal system. 

Scottish Legal News now has 10,000 followers on Twitter, underlining its primacy as the leading daily news service for Scotland’s legal community. SLN managing editor Graham Ogilvy said: “Once again, I would like to thank our readers along with Kapil Summan and all of the SLN team for he

The minimum age for an application to obtain legal recognition of gender would be reduced from 18 to 16 and a new offence of false application would be created under proposed legislation. A draft bill reforming the current process for obtaining legal gender recognition has been published by the Scot

Parliamentary sovereignty is "no longer an accurate description of the constitution in Scotland or the UK", the Scottish government said this morning as it launched a demand for legislation to be passed transferring the power to hold a referendum to Holyrood. In a paper entitled Scotland’