In the last 10 years the value of the Scottish residential property market increased by 45 per cent, from £15.7 billion to £22.7bn, according to the latest Property Market Report published by Registers of Scotland (RoS). Over the past 10 years:
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Plans to boost and encourage the use of Gaelic and Scots have been passed by the Scottish Parliament. The Scottish Languages Bill will enable parents to ask for a Gaelic school to be established in their area. Local authorities would then be required to assess if the request was practical and afford
The board of the Scottish Arbitration Centre has appointed Rebecca Wyke as a deputy registrar. The announcement was made by Duncan Bagshaw, the registrar of the centre, at the centre’s arbitration training day in Edinburgh today.
Retail trade union Usdaw is concerned by the continued growing trend of shoplifting incidents in Scotland, which have more than doubled since the pandemic, alongside a persistent decline in police ‘clear-up’ rates for the offence. The union welcomes that the protection of retail workers
Now more than ever, the Scottish legal landscape appears to be in a state of great uncertainty says SCOLAG's Eamon Keane (pictured). Legislative reform and government policy indicates that whatsoever happens, the future of justice in Scotland will look radically different from that dispensed in cent
Searching, postal and document management services provider First Scottish have signed up to support the roll out of the Law Society’s new Smartcard. The new Smartcard, currently being delivered to all practising Scottish solicitors, acts as a professional ID recognised across Europe and provides
The Scottish Arbitration Survey, a joint initiative involving the University of Aberdeen, Burness Paull LLP and the Law Society of Scotland, has published its first report. Report No 1 covers the period from 1 July 2013 to 30 June 2014. The report provides statistics relative to the occurrence of ar
Paul Brewer The average house price in Scotland could exceed a quarter of a million pounds by the end of the decade, economists have predicted.
Scottish Ministers have appointed Iain Farquhar Maclean as the new deputy chair of the Scottish Land Court. A panel was formed to provide advice to Scottish ministers on suitable candidates to fill the office of deputy chair.
Maggie Moodie The Scottish government has re-appointed Morton Fraser to provide its general property law services.
Updated prison statistics for 2013-14 have been released today by Scotland’s chief statistician and include information on the Scottish prison population, including population by type of custody and establishment, characteristics of prisoners, receptions to/liberations from penal establishments an
John McGovern Scottish courts are cracking down on environmental crime as a recent case illustrates, John McGovern writes.
A Scottish council has won a £3 million legal dispute with an insurance firm over the collapse of the Scottish Coal Company. South Lanarkshire Council raised a commercial action seeking payment of £3,117,724 from Aviva Insurance, which the local authority claimed was due under a “performance gua
Arbitration: Scottish government issues consultation on removing ability to contract out of 2010 Act
The Scottish government has issued a consultation on removing the ability of arbitrating parties to contract out of using the new arbitration law provided for by the Arbitration (Scotland) Act 2010. This consultation is relevant to anyone who is either involved or interested in arbitration as provid
Graham Burnside Graham Burnside, a consultant at Shepherd and Wedderburn, is to speak at a major Zurich conference.