Search: Scottish syndicate purchased land 1901 for £5000

Michael Matheson The number of extra police officers continues to exceed the SNP's 1,000 target, figures published today show.

Lindsay McCormick On Friday the 26th of February, the Aberdeen Law Project (ALP) will host its Annual Lecture at the Kings College Auditorium, located in the University of Aberdeen campus.

A man involved in the supply cocaine was subjected to a renewed proceeds of crime action after property worth £35,000 was uncovered during a 2006 investigation into his activities. David Rush, 50, plead guilty in April 2006 to involvement in the supply of cocaine, which triggered a proceeds of crim

Cameron Fyfe Legal reforms set to go through Holyrood will allow alleged victims of historical abuse whose claims were time-barred to re-raise them in court.

The Law Society of Scotland has today welcomed the Scottish Law Commission’s Draft Third Party Rights Bill. Michael Clancy, director of law reform at the Law Society, said: “We fully support the intention of the Third Party Rights Bill and believe that the legislation will provide clarity and ce

A Scots law firm whose complaint to the legal complaints watchdog about the conduct of a solicitor from another firm was ruled ineligible has successfully appealed against the decision. The firm complained to the Scottish Legal Complaints Commission that the lawyer may have been guilty of profession

Lord Drummond Young The Inner House of the Court of Session has rejected a law firm's bid to avoid contributing more than £50,000 to the Scottish Solicitors’ Staff Pension Fund £10 million deficit.

The Law Society of Scotland has supported plans to remove the need for suspects to pay a contribution towards the cost of legal advice they receive while held in custody at police stations but has cautioned that fundamental difficulties with legal aid arrangements for police station work remain. Reg

A law professor's widow who passed away last year has gifted £4 million towards the protection of birds and woodland and to fund research into Parkinson's disease, The Herald reports. Margaret Walker left the bulk of her legacy for The Woodland Trust, the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI),

The Crown has successfully challenged the sentence imposed on a man who pled guilty to attempting to conspire to rape and sexually assault a young girl and to take indecent photographs of her. The Criminal Appeal Court ruled that the sentence of 18 months’ imprisonment imposed was “unduly lenien

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(L-R): Howard Beach, Donna Strong and Andrew McCowan Glasgow-based commercial law firm Leslie Wolfson has announced the promotion of a partner within the firm, along with a new lateral associate hire, as part of its ongoing expansion programme.

John Campbell QC A QC and solicitor advocate have claimed consumers in Scotland have been let down by a failure to modernise the legal profession nine years after the then Office of Fair Trading backed a “supercomplaint” by consumer watchdog Which?.

A prisoner in Scotland is set to face justice in the US after a court rejected his plea that extradition to his native Pakistan would put him at a “mortal risk”, The Herald reports. Johar Javed Mirza, 35, who converted to Judaism, is serving a three year prison term for attempted rape of a stude

Laurence Kennedy An advocate in Perth came to the rescue of a pet dog that seemed set for certain death.