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Member states may reserve to notaries the power to authenticate signatures appended to the documents necessary for the creation or transfer of rights to real property, the Court of Justice of the European Union has ruled. This requirement contributes to guaranteeing the legal certainty of real prope

Brodies LLP has been named “Scotland IP Firm of the Year” at the Managing Intellectual Property Global Awards in London for the fourth consecutive year, while Marks & Clerk has been awarded the accolade of “Scottish Prosecution Firm of the Year”. Brodies partners Robert Buchan and Gill G

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Caroline Loudon TLT continues to grow its licensing team with the arrival of Lindsays head of licensing & gambling Caroline Loudon. Ms Loudon’s arrival at the firm comes shortly after that of licensing solicitor, Michael McDougall, who also joined from Lindsays. Both will work out of TLT's Gla

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 man who claimed that a Scots lawyer who acted for his wife in a divorce action marketed the estranged couple’s property for sale without his consent has failed in an appeal against a tribunal’s decision to dismiss his complaint against the solicitor. The Inner House of the Court of Session rul

Figures released today by Registers of Scotland (RoS) show a 3.3 per cent year on year rise in property sales across Scotland, with 99,860 total sales. RoS’ Annual Market Review 2016 found that the last calendar year was a relatively stable period for the Scottish residential property market, comp

An assault case has been referred to the High Court of Justiciary by the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission as a possible miscarriage of justice. In accordance with the commission’s statutory obligations, a statement of reasons for its decision has been sent to the High Court and Crown Offi

Pictured top row (L-R): Alan Gilfillan, Kirsten Knight, Sindi Mules, Karen Gibbons and Margaret Ross. Bottom row (L-R): Sarah Shiels, Irene Turner, Julia Cryan and Stephanie McLaren.

Martin Sloan Martin Sloan explains why data risk compliance should be at the top of the boardroom agenda.

Syrian families in Edinburgh have presented the Faculty of Advocates with a special artwork in thanks for a Burns Supper held in their honour.

Maya Foa The family of a UK resident who campaigns against the death penalty in Bahrain is coming under sustained attack, human rights group Reprieve has warned Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson.

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

Lord Mance A Supreme Court Justice has called it “critical” that the role of judges in a representative democracy is properly understood as one of applying the law and not making it, broadly speaking.