Search: Scottish syndicate purchased land 1901 for £5000

Displaced Ukrainian litigation lawyer Vitalii Diakov tells Jimmy Black about the life he left behind, and the social enterprise he helped to establish, promoting nonviolent communication in Scotland. Ukrainian lawyer Vitalii Diakov still has one case to finish. The Russian war has massively delayed

Lord Advocate Dorothy Bain KC has dramatically increased the number of appeals against sentences judged to be too soft. Figures obtained by The Sunday Times show a 500 per cent rise over the past decade in appeals brought by the lord advocate on the grounds that sentences were unduly lenient.

When Jamila Archibald was named the Law Society of Scotland’s In-House Rising Star earlier this year, then-president Susan Murray was glowing in her endorsement. Ms Archibald had, she said, impressed the judges not just with her ability to “deal with cross-jurisdictional legal queries wh

Small scale, unsubsidised, borne along on a wave of bookish enthusiasm, the ‘Writing Worth Reading’ cluster of 12 events at the Royal Scots Club can hardly be described as a competitor to the big literary beast which, not long past, was licking its wounds in a venue oddly described as th

The optics are never good where bearing a placard or the wearing a T-shirt leads to an arrest, especially where the miscreant is a retired vicar, an old lady or a blind man in a wheelchair protesting about a matter of public concern, such as the ethics of abortion or the killing of defenceless child

The Scottish Solicitors’ Discipline Tribunal has found Torquil MacLeod, formerly of Torquil MacLeod & Co, in Inverness, guilty of professional misconduct after he charged grossly excessive fees to an executry and failed to render fee notes in respect of the fees taken. He has been fined £3,00

Time is running out for any delegates who have not yet registered for the Conveyancing Conference, part of the Scots Law Summer Series which will take place online on Wednesday 16 June.