Search: Scottish syndicate purchased land 1901 for £5000

Solicitors will hear from Scottish government minister for community safety and legal affairs, Paul Wheelhouse MSP, at the Law Society of Scotland's legal aid conference today. Law Society of Scotland president Alistair Morris will today open the two-day legal aid conference, which takes place after

Maclay Murray & Spens (MMS)'s private client and charities team has been accredited by the newly-created STEP Employer Training Scheme. MMS is the first firm in Scotland to achieve the recognition, accepting the 'Platinum Training Partner' award - the highest of three accreditation levels - for

Christine McLintock The incoming president of the Law Society of Scotland has said students are at risk of being priced out of the legal profession unless the Scottish government creates more support for them.

In preparation for the establishment of the Scottish Sentencing Council (SSC) later this year two Scottish statutory instruments have now been laid before the Scottish Parliament and will come into force on 27 June 2015. The Scottish Sentencing Council (Procedure for Appointment of Members) Regulati

Harper Macleod has been appointed as the official legal adviser for Scottish Swimming.

Police officers in Scotland are solving fewer crimes on average, a think tank has claimed. Reform Scotland's new report, The Thinning Blue Line, shows that the number of crimes being cleared up per FTE police officer fell from 12 in 2006/07 to 8 in 2013/14.

ESPC has announced that its website is now the only property portal in Scotland offering the ability to search for homes by school catchment areas. For every property advertised within the capital, ESPC will show the four council catchment schools available; primary, RC primary, high school and RC h

Michael Matheson The Scottish government will build a new women's prison at Cornton Vale as part of a new strategy on women offenders, Justice Secretary Michael Matheson has announced.

in the CARE programme amounted to or resulted from a breach by the respondents of their duties. “There is then a complaint that, although the CARE programme was completed by the end of March 2014, it took until August before the post-programme report was finalised and until early September for it

Professor Alan Miller Scotland’s national human rights institution has this week reported its long-standing concerns about unlawful police stop and search practices to the United Nations.

Yvonne Brady The number of Scottish corporate insolvencies in the first quarter of the year is 21.2 per cent lower than over the same time last year, according to newAccountant in Bankruptcy (AiB) data.

Ann Henderson More than three-quarters of people in Scotland support legal access to abortion, according to a new opinion poll commissioned by Abortion Rights Edinburgh.

Craig Nicol Thorntons has been awarded a place on a panel of legal firms chosen to provide advice and services to the Scottish government along with a wide range of public bodies and agencies.

The Cabinet Secretary for Justice has announced the appointments of Colin Dunipace, Professor Jim Fraser and Dr Rajan Darjee as members to the Scottish Criminal Case Review Commission. The Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission is a public body which was established in April 1999 by an Act of Par

Grahame Smith The Scottish Trades Union Congress (STUC) has called on public bodies in Scotland to refuse to implement the provisions of the government's Trade Union Bill.