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Kenny Crawford The latest publication of the UK House Price Index (UK HPI) shows that the average price of a property in Scotland in December 2016 was £141,553 – an increase of 3.5 per cent on the previous year and a decrease of 0.2 per cent when compared to the previous month. This compares to a

David Wilson The requirements of a valid payment notice issued under a construction contract were considered in a previous update: “A Payment Notice? Be Clear?” with reference to the case of Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust v Logan Construction (South East) Ltd (“Surrey and Sussex”) a

Keith Campbell The Scottish government is consulting on the future of unconventional oil and gas development in Scotland, writes MacRoberts' Keith Campbell.

Jennifer Maciver Jennifer Maciver has joined Gillespie Macandrew LLP as a legal director and head of family law.

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The employment team at Shepherd and Wedderburn has collaborated with a number of leading law firms across Europe to produce the European Employment Law Update for 2017. Aimed at companies with a pan-European presence, this guide provides an overview of the key reforms being introduced to European em

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Jodie Ginsberg Proposed changes to official secrets legislation would see the maximum prison sentence for journalists who obtain leaked official documents increased to 14 years.

The owners of the “Tartan Army” trade mark have failed in a legal bid to prevent another company using the name without its permission. Tartan Army Limited claimed that Alba Football Fans Limited was infringing its rights in terms of section 10 of the Trade Marks Act 1994 and EU Trade Mark Regul

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Margaret Mitchell The Scottish government is sitting on £1 million worth of empty courtrooms, while around one in six Police Scotland buildings are not in daily use,

Foreigners and British citizens without passports, particularly those from ethnic minorities, are being discriminated against in the private rental housing market as a result of the Right to Rent scheme designed to crack down on irregular immigration, according to a new report by the Joint Council f

Maria Botha-Lopez The property market in east central Scotland has seen a slight increase in the number of properties being put up for sale over the last three months, according to the latest analysis from ESPC.

Ministry of Justice (MoJ) plans to impose cuts of up to £30 million on criminal defence solicitors have been condemned today by the Law Society. The cuts come less than a month after the MoJ published proposals that will see QCs' fees rise by 10 per cent "at the expense of other criminal advocates"