Search: Scottish syndicate purchased land 1901 for £5000

A multi-agency partnership and website with the aim of avoiding wherever possible the separation of and improving contact for looked after brothers and sisters, Stand Up For Siblings, was launched in Glasgow on Friday. Stand Up For Siblings is a collaboration between a number of child welfare, child

Maurice Corry MSP Research by the Scottish Conservatives has found that the number of special constables in Scotland has more than halved since 2013.

Work has begun on Scotland’s first purpose-built justice centre in Inverness due to be completed late 2019.

Difficulties could be created if Scotland alone in the UK forges ahead with a new system for legal recognition of acquired gender, the Faculty of Advocates has suggested. The Scottish government is looking to introduce a self-declaration system for legal gender recognition, removing the need for app

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Richard Murray TC Young has announced that Richard Murray has joined the firm.

The Law Society of Scotland's offices will be closed today but it will continue to offer services to solicitors and the public by email.

Eleanor Mannion MacRoberts has added to its employment law team with the arrival of senior associate Eleanor Mannion.

Paul Chapman Scotland may be renowned for its culture of innovation, but it is being outdone by its Scandinavian counterparts, according to a Scottish patents expert.

One of the many areas of law in Scotland which will be significantly affected by “Brexit” is environmental law. That topic will be one of the questions which will be examined by a “Brexit Update” seminar, which is being held in Edinburgh on the morning of Monday, 26 March. Dr Annalisa Savare

Michael Matheson The controversial integration of the British Transport Police (BTP) into Police Scotland has been delayed until after next April.

A married couple who challenged a sheriff’s decision to grant a permanence order in respect of their youngest of four children following their conviction for assaulting her three older siblings have had their appeal rejected. The appellant’s claimed that the sheriff erred in his assessment of th

Credit: Google Street View The Law Society of Scotland has successfully petitioned the Court of Session to appoint a Judicial Factor to Dalbeattie law firm Austins LLP, which ceased trading earlier this month.

Numerous industrial sites are failing to comply with environmental protection measures, the BBC reports. Both BP’s Kinneil Terminal and Petroineos at Gragemouth were rated “poor” in addition to two sites at Dounreay.