Search: Scottish syndicate purchased land 1901 for £5000

Lord Malcolm A mother whose baby was left with a permanent disability as a result of the “excessive force” used by a midwife during delivery is to be awarded £725,000 damages after the health board lost an appeal in a negligence case against it.

Lord Pentland The Scottish Law Commission has launched a public consultation on the law reform work that it should carry out in the future.

Gordon Jackson QC Scottish ministers have announced a review of the regulation of legal services with a view to making independent recommendations to reform and modernise the statutory framework for the regulation of legal services and complaints handling.

Pictured: (L-R) Megan MacInnes, Prof David Adams, Andrew Thin, Bob McIntosh, Dr Sally Reynolds and Lorne MacLeod

Lord Minginish From 1 April the Scottish Land Court became one of ”the Scottish courts” as defined by the Judiciary and Courts (Scotland) Act 2008 and within the responsibility of the Lord President.

Her Honour Judge Anuja Ravindra Dhir QC A woman from Dundee has become the first non-white judge to be appointed to the Old Bailey, The Courier reports.

Pictured (L-R): Susan McManus, HR adviser, SCTS ; Geoff Kitchener, customer relationship manager, Centrica; Elena Poulos, chair Carer Contact Group, SCTS; Sarah Jackson, OBE, CEO Working Families

The Scottish Arbitration Centre has again sponsored the University of Edinburgh’s Pre-Vis Moot event as well as its Multi-Tier Dispute Resolution in Practice conference, which was held in in Edinburgh on Friday 10 March. Lord Hope of Craighead delivered the opening and closing remarks at the confe

Pictured: (L-R): Professor Hector MacQueen, Malcolm McMillan (chief executive), Lord Pentland (chairman), Dr Andrew Steven, David Johnston QC and Mrs Caroline Drummond

A Scottish mother has lost a legal dispute with the Australian father of her child after failing in an appeal against a judge’s ruling that their one-year-old son should be returned from Scotland to Brisbane so judges there can determine the baby’s future. The Inner House of the Court of Session

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Keith Campbell The Scottish government is consulting on the future of unconventional oil and gas development in Scotland, writes MacRoberts' Keith Campbell.

Margaret Mitchell The Scottish government is sitting on £1 million worth of empty courtrooms, while around one in six Police Scotland buildings are not in daily use,

The Scottish Legal Complaints Commission (SLCC) has welcomed the Scottish government's announcement of an independent review of legal aid but pointed to an imbalance between the service which legally-aided clients receive in comparison to fee-paying clients. It said that where fees paid to solicitor

Members of the Scottish Parliament will have a vote on the UK government’s bill to trigger Article 50 on Tuesday 7th February. The news comes as the UK government this week published a white paper on Brexit entitled The United Kingdom's Exit from and New Partnership with the European Union.