Search: Scottish syndicate purchased land 1901 for £5000

Pictured (L-R): Vanessa Kennedy, Yvonne McAllan and Steven Jansch

Yann Robin Yann Robin looks at employee compensation for inventions of outstanding benefit to employers in the UK's patent regime.

The UK government has announced new measures to tackle the sale of "unsafe" laser pointers, including strengthening safeguards to stop high-powered lasers entering the country. In a response to a call for evidence launched last year following a recent increase in the number of incidents involving la

Andrew Foyle Andrew Foyle, partner and solicitor advocate at Shoosmiths, reflects on the simple procedure rules introduced over a year ago.

Alan McIntosh Alan McIntosh offers his thoughts on the BBC's controversial programme on bankruptcy.

Scottish Legal News welcomes today's editorial in The Herald, which we reproduce in full below. The alarm bells have been ringing in Scotland’s legal aid service for years now, but it looks like we may finally have reached breaking point.

Beverley Addison

Paul Chapman Intellectual property practice Marks & Clerk filed the highest number of Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) applications between January 2014 and December 2016 according to data published by the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO).

Macdonald Henderson has advised Old College Capital, University of Edinburgh’s investment arm, in its investment alongside Scottish Investment Bank, Equity Gap and high-net-worth individuals, in a £1.6 million funding round in Shot Scope Technologies, maker of a performance-tracking watch for gol

A former partner in a property letting department of a firm of chartered surveyors who was interdicted from soliciting business from any company clients with which he had dealings after he set up a rival agency has successfully appealed against a decision that he was in breach of the court’s order

A majority of Holyrood's Justice Committee has backed James Kelly MSP’s bill repealing the Offensive Behaviour at Football and Threatening Communications Act. While strongly condemning sectarian behaviour, the majority of the committee found that the original act was flawed, and other existing law

Rebecca Barrass

Murray McCall Anderson Strathern has been appointed to all six lots of the Legal Services Framework for the Advanced Procurement for Universities and Colleges (APUC) which was established to ensure good value and high quality services for education institutions in Scotland.

A man convicted of murdering his wife who has been seeking to challenge his former employer’s decision to award him a reduced pension has had his case dismissed. David Lilburn, 54, who is currently incarcerated at the State Hospital in Carstairs after being sentenced to life imprisonment with a pu

Professor Ross Deuchar