Search: Scottish syndicate purchased land 1901 for £5000

Shared Parenting Scotland has published a revised and updated guide to child welfare reports and child welfare reporters. Where separated parents cannot agree arrangements for time with their children they may end up in court, most often the Sheriff Court.

A contingency measure to help prisoners affected by drug use during the pandemic is to be rolled out into the wider community after a pilot project was shown to be a success. Last year the Scottish government allocated £1.9 million to support people in prison on prescribed opiate substitution

Scotland's legal system does not comply with international environmental and human rights law, according to UN findings. Article 9 of the Aarhus Convention, which the UK ratified in 2005, requires that access to review procedure over environmental matters should be fair, equitable, timely, and not p

Andrew Scott takes a look at the value of search orders when enforcing intellectual property rights. Most companies are now aware of the value to their business of intellectual property (IP) and the various ways in which to protect those IP assets. However, protecting the asset is only half the stor

A new toxicology laboratory for Scotland is to be created to provide state-of-the-art testing capabilities for police and prosecutors. The Scottish government is providing more than £6 million for the new purpose-built centre that will be able to test for a wide range of substances, including

Former Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill MP has echoed calls for the powers of the Lord Advocate to be divided. Dorothy Bain QC took over the besieged post last month, replacing James Wolffe QC, amid pressure for the role to be divided in two. The SNP promised to consult on the issue in its manifest

Lawyers are generally opposed to the Scottish government's proposals to reform the legal complaints system, the results of a consultation show. A majority of respondents either 'mostly' or 'strongly' disagreed with the majority of the proposals that stem from 2018's Roberton Review. A majority, howe

Govan Law Centre (GLC) has published an advance preview of its 2020/21 annual report showing its successes in supporting 4,500 clients despite a "difficult and challenging" year. Despite its services being reduced due to the pandemic, it was still able to offer free advice and legal representat

Three police officers have successfully challenged the instigation and form of misconduct proceedings brought against them by Police Scotland in judicial review proceedings before the Outer House of the Court of Session. The petitioners, all still currently serving police officers, argued

Shared Parenting Scotland has called for a "new vision" to breathe life into the Scottish government's proposed overhaul of child contact centres. The government has launched a consultation on changes to the Children (Scotland) Act 2020, proposing an overhaul of child contact centres, focusing on th

Recipients of fiscal fines who refuse to pay them are going unpunished, figures from the Scottish Conservatives have shown. Last month, Deputy First Minister John Swinney told Holyrood that refusal to pay such fines “is treated as a request by the alleged offender to be prosecuted for the offe

A new allegation of malicious prosecution has been made against the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service. Solicitor advocate Gordon Dangerfield has written to the Lord Advocate, Dorothy Bain QC, on behalf of his client, Mark Hirst, who was prosecuted for an offence following comments he m

Frontline services for women and girls affected by gender-based violence will receive £5 million to deal with additional pressures that have occurred during the pandemic. The funding will go to rape crisis centres and domestic abuse services to cut waiting lists, helping to ensure those affect

Legal aid in England and Wales is in urgent need of reform to ensure that the most vulnerable can have access to justice, a report by the House of Commons Justice Committee has found. The report warns that a rigid system of fixed fees and low pay is leaving firms specialising in legal aid struggling

A sheriff in Peterhead has found that the death of a north-east prisoner from possible drug and alcohol-related conditions the day after he was admitted to prison was not the result of an accident or any failure on the part of prison staff. Sean Taggart, a prisoner at HMP Grampian, died on the morni