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Scottish solicitors have endorsed amendments to practice rules intended to raise standards around their anti-money laundering practices and incidental financial business - the vote was counted at the Law Society of Scotland's special general meeting, in Edinburgh yesterday. The Law Society’s curre

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Roseanna Cunningham A new bill has been submitted to the Scottish Parliament outlining the long-term future of Crown Estate Scotland.

Liam Entwistle Liam Entwistle, a partner at Wright, Johnston & Mackenzie LLP (WJM) has been appointed a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.

Shona McCusker In the wake of Carillion's collapse, Shona McCusker looks at the contractual protections available to construction parties.

The Scottish Parliament has launched a website ahead of the Lobbying (Scotland) Act 2016 coming into force on 12 March this year. The Lobbying Register website must be used by anyone who engages in regulated lobbying to record details of their activities.

A property developer who entered into an agreement with a bank to sell 26 homes he had purchased with loan funding after he became liable to repay more than £2.5 million in loans is challenging a bid by the lender to terminate the contract. The bank claimed that the pursuer failed pay the rental in

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Austrian privacy campaigner Max Schrems can bring an individual action in Austria against Facebook Ireland, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has ruled. However, he cannot bring proceedings on behalf of seven other users in Austria, Germany and India who assigned him their claims for

The excellent piece below by Robert Pirrie of the WS tonehociety records the friendship, some may say ‘bromance’ between Robert Burns and Robert Ainslie WS. It was one of many friendships the poet had with lawyers, reflecting the prominent role of ‘writers’ as they were known in the intellec

Lawyers can still book a place at a seminar to be held next Monday on the workings of the Community Empowerment (Scotland) Act 2015. Top experts will explain the legislation and highlight the key issues for all those involved in using the new rights.

Robert Burns found his friendship with Writer to the Signet Robert Ainslie to be "almost necessary to my existence". Robert Pirrie, chief executive of the WS Society, reveals how the Scottish bard and the Edinburgh lawyer formed an enduring friendship as their remarkably candid correspondence b

Joanne Cruickshank Joanne Cruickshank has joined Morton Fraser as legal director in its residential property team.

UK statutory sick pay as well as government help for jobless and self-employed people breach international obligations, a European committee has ruled. The European Committee of Social Rights, a monitoring body of the Council of Europe, described the money available to people claiming statutory sick

Kirstin Nee DUAL Asset Underwriting Limited has been nominated for the Innovation in Practice accolade at 2018 Scottish Legal Awards.