Maria Botha-Lopez ESPC’s first house price report since the EU referendum has reveled an almost immediate shock to the housing market in east central Scotland as the number of people bringing their home to market stalled.
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Two women have been sentenced to 23-and-a-half-years and 24 years in jail after they were found guilty of the murder of a two year old boy in Fife. The court heard that Liam Fee died having suffered a blow to his abdomen. Rachel and Nyomi Fee had tried to blame the injuries on another boy.
Students at Edinburgh Law School’s Freedom of Expression Law Clinic have submitted a petition to the UN Working Group of Arbitrary Detention, urging the group to support detained Vietnamese bloggers, Nguyễn Hữu Vinh and Ngô Hào. Supported by experienced practitioners, the final year LLB stud
CLT Scotland, in association with the University of Strathclyde, has launched the next event in the Scots Law 2016 Conference/Exhibition Series.
Lord Reed The longstanding Lord Rodger Baltimore/Maryland Summer School Lecture will be delivered by Lord Reed this year.
Balfour+Manson recently announced that it raised over £5,200 for MS Society Scotland between April and June this year. The staff have been extremely busy participating in a number of challenges and testing their stamina and nerves.
Matthew Gray A Scottish law firm is adding to the positivity surrounding Watsonians FC’s New Myreside home – by agreeing a four figure sponsorship deal.
Mark Roscoe (left) and Gordon Jackson QC
Ronnie Brown (pictured), from Burness Paull, writes about the new legislation introduced to combat tax evasion. The UK is well known for having one of the toughest anti-bribery laws in the world, and extending the corporate offence of failure to prevent bribery to other areas of corporate crime seem
Susan O'Brien QC has resigned as chair of the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry complaining that the Inquiry's independence was being undermined by government interference -- an allegation also made by Professor Michael Lamb, a senior psychologist resigned from the inquiry last week claiming that interfe
The General Court of the European Union has ruled that the repute of McDonald’s trade marks makes it possible to prevent the registration, for foods or beverages, of trade marks combining the prefix ‘Mac’ or ‘Mc’ with the name of a foodstuff or beverage. The Court today upheld the European
Graeme McWilliams Graeme McWilliams, legal adviser at Standard Life, has been appointed as convener of the Law Society of Scotland’s In-house Lawyers’ Committee (ILC).
Peter Boyd Boyd Legal Solicitors, a full service practice headquartered in Edinburgh, has undertaken a strategic review of its operations and parted ways with its high volume mortgage referral conveyancing team.
Alison Britton The Law Society of Scotland has supported proposals to introduce a no-blame redress scheme for the healthcare sector, but has said the proposed cap for financial compensation is too high at £100,000.
The Faculty of Advocates would welcome more defamation cases being raised in Scotland because, it says, the current low level threatens development of the law in the area and the country’s stature as a litigation forum. Responding to a Scottish Law Commission discussion paper on defamation, the Fa