Search: Scottish syndicate purchased land 1901 for £5000

Lord McConnell Labour peer and former First Minister Lord McConnell has suggested a judge should be appointed to rule over possible constitutional disputes between Holyrood and Westminster as part of the UK’s withdrawal from the EU.

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Pictured (L-R): Journalist and broadcaster Alastair Stewart (awards host), Clare Munro (Brodies), Bill Drummond, Stephen Goldie (Brodies), Nick Scott (Brodies), Lorna Jack (chief executive of the Law Society of Scotland) and Mark Stewart (Brodies).

A new bill to strengthen the laws against those who psychologically abuse their partners using coercive and controlling behaviour has been published today. First Minister Nicola Sturgeon met survivors of abuse at Glasgow Young Women’s Movement (YWCA) centre on the day the Scottish government intro

This year's SLN Annual Review delivers updates from across the field of family law in 2016, including on child law, cohabitation and the Named Persons case. Harper Macleod partner Amanda Masson looks at the state of child relocation in Scots law, noting that last year saw an increase in instructions

Michael Matheson Seven community sector organisations will receive almost £3 million of government investment to deliver services aimed at reducing the cycle of reoffending.

Kirk Murdoch Kirk Murdoch, chairman of Pinsent Masons in Scotland and Northern Ireland, has passed away.

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Caroline Gardner A project to build a national IT system for Police Scotland followed good practice in its early stages but ultimately collapsed due to a "damaging loss of trust" between those involved and fundamental disagreements about what the programme needed to deliver, according to an auditor�

Peter Grant Hutchison In this year's SLN Annual Review, Terra Firma’s Peter Grant Hutchison looks back at the year in employment law, from the controversial Trade Union Act 2016, with its 50 per cent timeout requirement to the application of the Equality Act at the European level. In Dansk Industr

A former prisoner who claimed that the policy of hand-cuffing him when he was escorted from jail to hospital for medical appointments while he was serving his sentence breached his human rights has had a damages claim dismissed. Easdale Campbell, who was convicted of attempted murder in 1996, argued

Pictured (left to right, top to bottom): Emma Carmichael, Leigh Herd, Patricia Hawthorn, Yvonne Brady and Gillian Carty Women are leading the way at UK firm Shepherd and Wedderburn, the firm said ahead of International Women's Day tomorrow.

Dr Duncan Morrow Scotland should consider introducing strict liability rules in order to tackle sectarianism in football, an academic has recommended in a new report.

Holyrood’s European Committee has called for a bespoke solution on Brexit that reflects Scotland’s majority vote to remain in the single market to be explored with the “EU 27” in negotiations before and after the UK government triggers Article 50. The committee’s report Determining Scotlan