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Darina Kerr details the Coronavirus (Scotland) Bill's provisions relevant to the commercial property sector. The bill includes changes to the notice period required by landlords to ‘irritate’, or take back, a lease and pursue tenants for unpaid rent. This is now extended from 14 days to

Scottish conveyancers have greeted huge increases in loan-to-value deposits required by mortgage lenders with dismay. Britain's mortgage lenders have dramatically increased their loan-to-value deposits for house purchases with Halifax and Barclays among those seeking 40 per cent down-payme

Convictions for rape and attempted rape increased by 43 per cent in Scotland in they ear 2018-19, new figures reveal. The number of proceedings for these crimes increased by 32 per cent to 324 proceedings in 2018-19, and the conviction rate was 47 per cent.

Scotland’s first purpose-built justice centre in Inverness opens today.

Dean of Faculty, Gordon Jackson QC, has referred himself to the Scottish Legal Complaints Commission (SLCC) following the publication of footage in which he made comments about the trial of Alex Salmond, who was vindicated last week of various sexual offence charges at the High Court in Edinburgh. M

Following the postponement of ICCA Edinburgh due to COVID-19, ICCA and the Scottish Arbitration Centre have announced that the next ICCA Congress will take place from Monday 1 to Thursday 4 February 2021 in Edinburgh. ICCA president, Gabrielle Kaufmann-Kohler, said: “We are delighted that we w

More flexible interim payment arrangements for legal aid lawyers will be made but require primary legislation, the Scottish government has announced. Legal aid lawyers have been asked to finalise and submit their accounts "as soon as possible" as legal affairs minister Ash Denham said the Scottish L

The way we operate as an economy has changed, but the business world has adapted and changed with it. The COVID-19 pandemic has forced all businesses to re-evaluate how they operate on a global level. Many businesses have responded by increasing their capacity to operate remotely, through the enhanc

As we enter the darkest days we have faced since World War Two, the thoughts of the team at Scottish Legal News are with our readers and their families – but also with the many law firms which have only recently recovered from the crash of 2008 and its consequences. They now face an even great

Universities providing the diploma in professional legal practice are advising all final-year LLB students to submit their completed diploma applications by email, rather than post. Students should complete their diploma application as a Word document and send it by email to their respective univers

Property law can seem boring and unimportant to some people at times. In the face of a crisis, property law often seems decidedly unimportant. People need to live somewhere, though, and opportunistic and/or thoughtless landlords might use a situation of crisis (or be completely or wilfully oblivious

Reforms that aim to simplify, clarify and improve electoral law have today been published by the Scottish Law Commission and the Law Commission of England and Wales. Electoral law in the UK is currently spread across 25 major statutes. It has become increasingly complex and fragmented

A homeowner who was ordered to reduce the height of rows of trees along a boundary wall within the grounds of his property after his neighbours complained that they were overshadowing their garden has lost a legal challenge against a decision. Brian Rizza was issued with a “High Hedge Not

A company which sells “souvenir” plots of land and claimed that buyers could style themselves as “Lord of Lady” of an estate has had a £750,000 defamation action against an MSP dismissed. Wildcat Haven Enterprises claimed that Andy Wightman damaged its re

Representatives of the Colombian Truth Commission visited Edinburgh on 11 March to promote the work being done to clarify the main causes of the armed conflict and Colombia’s human rights crisis and promote co-existence, in a visit supported by Arnot Manderson Advocates.