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Millar & Bryce, Scotland’s leading land and property search firm, has launched Financial Asset Search (FAS), to support legal professionals and executors during the executry administration process. Recognising the complex and time-consuming measures practitioners undertake during the admin

Brexit is threatening the Sewel convention "almost to destruction", according to one academic. Writing in The Herald today, Aileen McHarg, professor of public law at Strathclyde University, said that the UK government had not explained its breach of the Sewel convention in the Commons last week &nda

British immigration officials have allegedly been promised cake and chocolates if they arrest more migrants than their colleagues.A whistleblower told the PCS trade union, which has criticised the practice: "Whoever made the most arrests in a month would get cake and possibly a box of Roses. This wo

A petition seeking judicial review of the Scottish Government’s purported ban on “fracking” has been refused, after a judge ruled that there was in fact “no prohibition” against the controversial process of oil and gas extraction in Scotland – despite ministerial

Holyrood’s Environment, Climate Change and Land Reform Committee today approved legislation that bans the use of plastic microbeads in personal care products in Scotland. Microbeads, which can be found in face scrubs, toothpastes and shower gels, can pass through sewage systems and reach seas

The Scottish Parliament has approved in principle a bill that aims to give local authorities and communities the opportunity to directly manage Scottish Crown Estate assets. The Scottish Crown Estate Bill will establish a framework for changes in the management of these assets to "deliver wider bene

Anderson Strathern has secured a series of client appointments during the first half of 2018, helping to increase year-on-year revenue at the firm. Revenue is up by eight per cent in the six months to 28th February 2018.

The requirement for the Scottish Parliament to consent to UK government legislation affecting devolved areas – the Sewel convention – should be embedded in law, Brexit minister Michael Russell has said. In a statement to the Scottish Parliament, Mr Russell called for parliamentary discus

An 84-year-old woman says she will be “forever grateful” to the Faculty of Advocates’ pro bono unit and a volunteer QC who helped her win a court case over damage to her tenement home. The ceiling in the woman’s living room partially collapsed and cracks appeared in other cei

Former Lord Advocate Dame Elish Angiolini QC is to review the processes for handling complaints against the police and investigating serious incidents and alleged misconduct. The independent review, jointly commissioned by Justice Secretary Michael Matheson and Lord Advocate James Wolffe QC, will as

A business has been fined over its "try before you buy" scheme – for sex dolls. Gateshead-based LD Europe Ltd, which trades as Lovedoll UK, was letting customers have "first hand experience" of the dolls in a bedroom on its premises.

Glasgow solicitor Sarah Haig has been named as the Law Society of Scotland’s In-house Rising Star 2018. Working as part of Glasgow City Council's Legal Services team, she has acquired a high level of knowledge in the field of information law and played an integral role in implementing GDPR not

Recreational use of marijuana has been legalised in Canada. The Canadian Parliament in Ottawa passed the Cannabis Act yesterday, with the Senate voting 59-20 in favour.

The Scottish courts are to be given powers to impose periodical payment orders. Alteration to the method of fixing the discount rate, the impending legislative requirement to obtain actuarial advice and the perennial uncertainty of life expectancy all point to the need for both parties to consider w

A teenager has been sent to jail after she named two girls on Facebook who had been sexually abused by her brother. Sophie Turner, 19, posted the victims' names on the Liverpool Echo's page after her brother, Jamie Turner, 26 and his friend, Myles Bell, 23 were found guilty of child sexual