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The business team at Blackadders has helped steer through the sale of the online activity booking site, ClassForKids. ClassForKids, the Glasgow-based site which is used by more than 3,000 kids’ activity clubs to help parents and owners save time and money, has been sold to The Access Group, on

The shareholders of a liquidated company that owned a £3.25 million property in Edinburgh have succeeded in a reclaiming motion challenging a Lord Ordinary’s decision to refuse to grant them decree for payment of their shares of the sale proceeds. Colonnade Properties Ltd and other trust

Edinburgh Law School’s Professor Nehal Bhuta is to present a lecture entitled Recovering Social Rights. In the aftermath of a 40-year dismantling of post-war welfare and developmental states, the argument goes, economic and social rights are merely straws in the wind, legalistic arguments whic

TLT has advised Santander UK on its multi-million pound funding to global clean energy enterprise, TagEnergy. The funding supports the construction and operation of two landmark battery storage facilities: the 49.9MW/100MWh Roaring Hill development in Fife, Scotland; and the 49MW/98MWH Jamesfield de

Tidman Legal founder and intellectual property solicitor, Oliver Tidman, has been appointed to the advisory panel at the Institute of Directors (IoD). Mr Tidman, who was recently recognised as a Leading Individual by World IP Review 2023, is currently the only legal advisor based in Scotland on the

Burges Salmon has advised First Bus, a division of transport group FirstGroup plc, on the acquisition of Essex bus company Ensign Bus Company Limited (Ensignbus). Aberdeen-headquartered FirstGroup is the second largest regional bus operator in the UK, serving two-thirds of the UK’s 15 largest

The Lord Advocate, Dorothy Bain KC, has welcomed a review of diversion from prosecution in Scotland which has concluded the practice is working well and developing in a positive direction. Diversion from prosecution is one of a range of community justice interventions available to the Crown Office a

Juries in England and Wales are more likely to convict than acquit a defendant of rape, and this has been the case for at least 15 years, according to a large-scale analysis of all jury verdicts by University College London’s Professor Cheryl Thomas. The analysis found that the jury conviction

A rare book on chess which was stolen from a school library nearly 70 years ago has been anonymously returned with £50 and an apology. The fourth edition copy of Rev E E Cunnington's The Modern Chess Primer was recently returned to Elgin Academy in the north of Scotland, The Herald reports.

Angela Robertson discusses the case of Alan King v Black Horse Limited and Park’s (Ayr) Limited. The Sheriff Appeal Court in Edinburgh has recently (January 2023) decided an appeal on whether a hirer under a hire purchase agreement is entitled to rely upon their rejection of a motor vehic

The sale of peat is set to be banned in Scotland, as part of wider plans to protect peatlands and reduce carbon emissions. As most extracted peat is used for horticulture, the Scottish government is looking for views from gardeners and commercial growers.

Helen Dale has written about the UK's latest constitutional furore and Nicola Sturgeon's subsequent resignation in a piece for Law and Liberty. Ms Dale, who has law degrees from Oxford and Edinburgh, writes: "A tongue-tied Sturgeon responded—to the best of her ability—by making the tradi

Scotland’s mid-market businesses attracted a record amount of private equity during 2022, despite investment dipping across the rest of the UK, according to new analysis by KPMG UK. Over the course of the year 51 deals involving Scottish firms were completed, worth £3.5bn, reflecting a y

A Sheriff Principal has ruled that it is possible to appeal against a refusal to grant an application for recall in simple procedure actions after the issue was raised in an action by a couple against a plasterer for allegedly defective work. Appellant David Bell argued that the sheriff had erred in

A lawyer is being sued by her former employer after allegedly gambling away an incredible $10 million of its money in Las Vegas in just six months. California-based LDR International Limited is suing Sara Jacqueline King for more than $10.2 million (around €9.5 million) for alleged breach of wr