Search: Scots syndicate 1901 bought land in Glasgow for £5000

Families Need Fathers Scotland has launched a new information and discussion website raising awareness about the benefits of sharing the care of children after parents separate. The new site offers:

Roseanna Cunningham The Scottish and Welsh environment ministers have pledged to work together to resist the UK government’s “attempt to take control of devolved powers”.

John Finnie MSP, justice spokesperson for the Scottish Greens (pictured), has today welcomed the support for his proposed member’s bill to give children equal protection from assault. A three-month public consultation on removing the defence of “justifiable assault” of children from Scots law,

Karen Gibbons Harper Macleod has added to its family law team with the recruitment of partner Karen Gibbons, who will be based in the firm's Edinburgh office at Citypoint, Haymarket.

Scott Blair Terra Firma advocate Scott Blair has been asked to join the Working Group of the Association of Lawyers for Animal Welfare (ALAW). The working group has been formed as part of a project by ALAW to advise on the ongoing implications for the protection of the welfare of animals in the UK a

Pictured (L-R): Andrew Mackenzie, legal affairs minister Annabelle Ewing MSP and centre chairman Brandon Malone

Reforms to contract law on third party rights have been passed by the Scottish Parliament. The Contract (Third Party Rights) (Scotland) Bill will establish a statutory basis for third-party rights.

Professors James Chalmers and Fiona Leverick set the record straight on Scotland's much misunderstood third verdict. The Scottish government’s announcement of a two year programme of jury research, which we are delighted to be carrying out along with Ipsos MORI Scotland and Vanessa Munro of th

The Faculty of Advocates doubts the necessity for a general statutory restatement of the law on remedies for breach of contract. The Scottish Law Commission raised the issue of a restatement in a wide-ranging discussion paper, saying the idea was previously taken nowhere in 1999 following a mixed re

Dundee Sheriff Court (Credit: Google Street View) A woman who failed to pay £24,500 in parking fines she ignored has been declared bankrupt, with fines exceeding £37,000.

John Finnie A bill to abolish "justifiable assault' of children has gained the signatures of more than 18 MSPs across Holyrood's five parties.

A suite of free courses on law in Scotland have been released by The Open University. The courses – The Scottish Parliament and law-making, Scottish courts and the law, Legal skills and debates in Scotland, and Law and change: Scottish legal heroes – come twenty years on from the historic vote f

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The death has been announced of Muir Russell QC, who served as a sheriff at Aberdeen for 20 years. He was 92. Albert Muir Galloway Russell, son of a judge, Lord Russell, was admitted to the Faculty of Advocates in 1951, after serving as a lieutenant in the Scots Guards. He took silk in 1965 and was

DWF is sponsoring the annual Lord Jones Mooting Competition for the second year. The intervarsity competition will be held on Saturday 27th January 2018 at the Scrymgeour Building at the University of Dundee. Teams of law students from universities across Scotland will compete against each other to