Search: Scottish syndicate purchased land 1901 for £5000

Members of the independent panel tasked with reviewing Scotland’s planning system are close to withdrawing their support for the current Planning (Scotland) Bill. In a letter to planning minister Kevin Stewart, Crawford Beveridge, Petra Biberbach and John Hamilton, joined calls by the Scottish

A real estate lawyer from Brodies is set to take part in this year’s (A Little Less) Strictly competition, a key fundraiser for the Prince and Princess of Wales Hospice in Glasgow.

Burness Paull LLP and Brodies LLP have scored double wins for their intellectual property teams at an international awards ceremony. The Managing IP Awards saw Burness Paull named winners of the Scottish Patent Contentious Firm of the Year and also Scottish Copyright Firm of the Year award

In the second episode of Morton Fraser's podcast series, Stuck in the Middle, David Hossack a partner and accredited mediator chats with Graham Boyack, director of Scottish Mediation about the Justice Committee's report "I won't see you in court".

A case can be made for allowing all prisoners to vote in elections in Scotland, including any future referendum, the Faculty of Advocates has suggested. The Scottish government is proposing that only prisoners on short sentences should be given a vote. The current blanket ban has been held to be inc

Livingstone Brown Solicitors in Glasgow has appointed advocate Ximena Vengoechea to the role of consultant in its financial crime team. Ms Vengoechea brings a wealth of international experience in crime, human rights and immigration work to the firm.

Staff from the Aberdeen office of Balfour+Manson have been raising funds for its nominated charity of the year, the Scottish Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Around £1,700 was recently handed over to the charity which was raised from a number of activities. The most challenging of

Lynda Clark, Lady Clark of Calton, has retired from the bench after serving as a judge for 13 years. Lady Clark was appointed a judge of the Supreme Courts in 2006 and was appointed to the Inner House on 1 October 2013.

Morton Fraser has appointed Alan Stewart as partner to its commercial real estate team. Mr Stewart, who joins Morton Fraser from Dentons and brings over 20 years’ experience in the Scottish real estate sector will be based in the firm’s Edinburgh office.

Lady Wolffe is to be the guest speaker at the Faculty of Advocates’ International Women’s Day event, when she pays tribute to pioneering women in the law and looks to the future. In the talk, International Women’s Day: Celebration and Challenges, Lady Wolffe will reflect on her own

A review of legal aid funding for families involved in fatal accident inquiries has been announced. Community Safety Minister Ash Denham told MSPs that a full consultation would be undertaken before this year's summer recess with a view to introducing a new legal aid bill.

Legal experts are to commemorate the twentieth anniversary of the Scottish Parliament at a seminar in Edinburgh next month. The creation of the Scottish Parliament radically transformed Scotland’s constitutional arrangements, bringing political deliberation, governmental accountability, and la

The potential impact of sentencing guidelines being introduced which have not been properly considered and tested would be considerable, according to the Scottish Sentencing Council. The council was responding to a motion for debate in the Scottish Parliament tomorrow, concerning sentencing pol

The public must be engaged if Scotland moves to an opt-out organ donation system, the Law Society of Scotland has said. The society, commenting ahead of the Scottish Parliament debate on proposals to move to an “opt-out” system for organ donation, has called for greater public aware

Shepherd and Wedderburn’s corporate finance team has reported a bumper year for deals activity, with the value of transactions more than doubling to £8.65 billion. The team advised on 114 deals globally in the year to December 2018, up from 98 deals in 2017, boosted by a number of notabl