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House prices in the UK rose by a substantial two per cent month-on-month in August, marking the largest monthly rise since February 2004, according to Nationwide's latest House Price Index. The increase followed a similarly robust gain of 1.8 per cent in July; this lifted the year-on-year increase t

Conservative MSP Adam Tomkins has announced he will return full-time to his role as the John Millar Professor of Public Law at the University of Glasgow next year. Mr Tomkins, an MSP for the Glasgow region since 2016, will not seek re-election at the upcoming Scottish Parliament election in May 2021

DWF is in the early stages of a consultation process on its UK business, which is understood to put between 15 and 18 positions at risk. The redundancies follow cuts made across the company's international outposts to deal with the economic effects of the pandemic.

Anderson Strathern has become the first 'gold #ROCKME partner' at the £63 million HALO Kilmarnock enterprise and innovation centre.

Four Scottish universities have been ranked in the top 10 for law in the latest Complete University Guide.

Ayla Iridag has been re-elected president of the Scottish Young Lawyers' Association following the virtual AGM held yesterday. Miss Iridag, an associate with Clyde & Co, has served on the committee for four years and also holds an executive position on the board of the European Young Bar Associa

Partick Thistle’s principal sponsor Just Employment Law (JEL) has extended its support of the club by a further year, taking their partnership to a fifth season up to the end of the 2021/22 campaign.

The Scottish Arbitration Centre has confirmed that Brandon Malone, chairman of the centre, and Andrew Mackenzie, chief executive of the centre, are to remain in post to deliver ICCA Edinburgh on 1-4 February 2021.  Mr Malone was due to stand down as chairman of the board in June 2020. Mr Macken

Lady Hale's memoirs are to be published next year and will detail how “a little girl from a little school in a little village in North Yorkshire became the most senior judge in the United Kingdom”. The first female president of the Supreme Court, who retired earlier this year, has signed

The Coronavirus (Scotland) Act 2020 came into force on 6 April 2020. In relation to commercial leases, the act gives tenants under commercial leases in Scotland additional protection from irritancy (i.e. forfeiture or termination). This protection is similar (although not identical) to the protectio

An international arbitration conference which had been due to take place in Edinburgh in May has been postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic. The Congress of the International Council for Commercial Arbitration (ICCA 2020) – the arbitration Olympics – was to have been hosted by the Sc

The European Young Bar Association's conference that was due to be held in Glasgow next month has been cancelled due to the ongoing coronavirus outbreak, the hosts have announced. The Scottish Young Lawyers' Association said in a statement: "In light of the recent COVID-19 outbreak in Europe and glo

A Holyrood committee has called on the Scottish government to include a “sunset clause” in legislation that will enable the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) to continue to operate during a post-Brexit transition period and to bring forward proposals and a timetable for introducing a new

Following on from the launch of the new First Home Fund, Harper Macleod held a special briefing for solicitors who regularly act for shared-equity scheme purchasers. The First Home Fund is a £150 million national pilot scheme to provide first-time buyers with up to £25,000 towards the pu

Rachel Dunn has been appointed chair of Women in Property's Central Scotland branch for 2020/21. Ms Dunn, an associate at Dentons in Glasgow, takes on this regional role for the national property and construction industry lobbying and networking organisation for one year from 1st March 202