TLT Solicitors has announced a 10 per cent increase in fee income to hit £82m for the financial 2017/18 – the first full financial year since the launch of its new strategy to 2020. Activity levels were up across the firm's transactional, advisory and disputes services driven by new
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Selling prices for residential property across east central Scotland rose by 8.2 per cent on average over the past three months of March, April and May compared with the same months of spring last year, according to the latest house price report by ESPC, property experts in east central Scotland. Av
Fraser Sutherland, campaigns manager at Humanist Society Scotland, calls for dead letter blasphemy laws to be scrapped. Last week when talking to friends about the campaign work Humanist Society Scotland, they expressed surprise that Scotland still has a common law offence against blasphemy. To be f
A successful night was had by all on Friday 25 May as over 150 people gathered in the Eglinton & Glencairn Gardens in the west end of Edinburgh for the fourth annual Cancer Research Racquet & Marie Champagne Garden Party.
Gay and bisexual men in Scotland will receive automatic pardons for historical convictions for homosexuality. Under the Historical Sexual Offences (Pardons and Disregards) Bill, passed unanimously by the Scottish Parliament, men will also have convictions of same-sex sexual activity that is now lega
An official opening of the refurbished Faculty library at the High Court in Glasgow has helped to give the west-coast criminal bar "the best facilities for many a long day".
Catherine MacPherson considers issues on the horizon for the cash and digital payments regimes. What Scot doesn't love a conversation on legal tender? It's been the focus of many a joke, those of Michael McIntyre and Kevin Bridges come to mind. Most people will be familiar with the adage that "cash
SFA compliance officer Tony McGlennan will join Addleshaw Goddard in Edinburgh as a legal director later this year. A compliance officer at the SFA since 2014, his experience includes reviewing actions and bringing charges against players, coaches and other officials on reported disciplinary in
Scotland’s police and prosecutors could face “complex and far-reaching” challenges in tackling cross-border crime after Brexit, a new paper has suggested. The latest in the series of ‘Scotland’s Place in Europe’ papers details the impact of withdrawing from the EU
Graham Horn recounts the latest legal episode in the battle against Brexit. In December 2017, a judicial review was raised at the Court of Session by Andy Wightman, MSP & Ors, seeking an answer to the question of whether the UK government’s notice of intention to withdraw from the European
A Holyrood committee has recommended that the general principles of the Prescription (Scotland) Bill be agreed to when it reaches its stage 1 debate in Parliament later this month. While the Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee welcomes the "greater clarity" the bill provides for users of the l
Scottish property prices are rising at their fastest rate in three years and have soared to record levels in two parts of the country. The average price of a home rose to £166,075 during the first quarter of the year – up almost £11,000 on the same time last year, according to inde
Brexit is threatening the Sewel convention "almost to destruction", according to one academic. Writing in The Herald today, Aileen McHarg, professor of public law at Strathclyde University, said that the UK government had not explained its breach of the Sewel convention in the Commons last week &nda
Morton Fraser has pointed to its investment in talent as the foundation for 60 per cent revenue growth over the last five years. The firm has increased revenues by nine per cent year-on-year, topping the £20 million threshold for annual billings for the first time in its history (£21.7m)
Pinsent Masons today revealed its unaudited results for 2017-18 which shows global turnover increased by six per cent to £449.8 million. Fees billed rose by 10 per cent on the previous year and in the last five years turnover has increased by more than 40 per cent while profit growth has risen