Search: Scots syndicate 1901 bought land in Glasgow for £5000

Advocate Paul Harvey and Lord Turnbull's new book, The Law of Sexual Offences in Scotland, is now available to buy. The book, published by Bloomsbury Professional, is the comprehensive guide to the law and practice of sexual offences in Scotland.

Scots lawyer Ken Swinton, editor of the Scottish Law Gazette, is to give a talk on his fascinating history of a street in Edinburgh's New Town at the Royal Scots Club on Monday February 17 at 7.00pm. During the pandemic, Mr Swinton assiduously researched the history and life stories of the residents

Musing over the haggis, coaxed down with a friendly single malt, David J Black shares his thoughts on why it is that so many Scots have a bizarre love-hate relationship with that man from Ayrshire. Robert Burns is, by a long way, the most celebrated poet in the world. His January 25 birthday feast i

Edinburgh Law School has announced the passing of Dr Parker Hood. Dr Hood had served as a lecturer in commercial law at Edinburgh Law School since 1994, before which he studied there. From 2013, he was the director of the LLM in Commercial Law.

Professor Gillian Black has been reappointed as a commissioner of the Scottish Law Commission. Professor Black has held a ministerial appointment as commissioner of the Scottish Law Commission since 22 April 2020. 

Ewan Kennedy explores the connections between our national bard and our other national language. In Ayrshire, Gaelic had already largely died out before Burns was born in 1759. His Jacobite father had North East ancestry and didn’t have the language. While the Ayrshire Scots that Burns spoke i

This day, 244 years ago, marked a milestone in the fight to abolish slavery, when the Scots-born Lord Mansfield, the Lord Chief Justice declared slavery “odious” and ruled that escaped slave James Somerset must be released in a case that was to usher in the abolition of the trade and, in

A law graduate who sought to appeal her 2:1 degree classification but was told she could not raise an appeal after her graduation has won an appeal against a decision of the court to uphold a finding of the Scottish Public Services Ombudsman that there had been no viable ground of complaint. Petitio

Professor Andrew Steven explains how the Clark Foundation for Legal Education has enabled more than 100 students to attend an enlightening summer school on the Continent. In 2004, I was invited to lecture on Scots law at the European Private Law Summer School at Salzburg in Austria. The Summer Schoo

In the final article of the series on the Clark Foundation for Legal Education, the trustees look at an ongoing project that it is supporting. MiniTrials – an initiative begun by Scots lawyers to help schools find out more about the Scottish legal system – simulates court cases and is de

With this book Dr Kennedy, a lecturer in Scottish history at the University of Dundee, provides a substantial analysis of crime in late seventeenth-century Scotland. The limitation is ‘serious’ crime, which is to say that prosecuted in the Justiciary Court, the central court with crimina

The Lawscot Foundation has opened applications to provide support for aspiring lawyers facing financial and other barriers to their legal studies and the profession. The charity is accepting applications from pupils who meet the eligibility criteria, including having an offer to begin a Scots law LL

Tessa Till has been promoted to legal director at BBM Solicitors. She is a highly experienced private client specialist, advising on wills, succession and tax planning, trusts, executries, powers of attorney, and adults with incapacity matters. 

The Lawscot Foundation has unveiled a modern new logo to help aid its mission supporting aspiring Scottish lawyers who face financial and other barriers. The new look has been launched as 2025 applications for support are considered. Applications can be made up to midday on Monday, 30 June 2025 by p