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The Law Society of Scotland has set out a comprehensive programme for reform in the run up to this year’s Scottish elections, which includes measures to enhance access to justice, boost economic recovery, improve diversity and drive legislative change. In its wide-ranging programme published t

The latest provisional statistics from the UK House Price Index (HPI) show that the average price of a property in Scotland in November 2020 was £165,703, an increase of 8.6 per cent on November 2019. Comparing with the previous month, house prices in Scotland increased by 0.9 per cent between

Ministers have been warned by a judge that she will order them to reconsider a no-trawl scheme intended to protect Scotland’s marine environment after they said it would serve no purpose, The Herald reports. Lady Poole had last month ruled in favour of the Scottish Creel Fishermen’s Fede

The case of EE Ltd and H3G Ltd v Duncan and others came before the Lands Tribunal for Scotland in the summer to be heard as a conjoined application. The case considered how the Electronic Communications Code contained within the Digital Economy Act 2017 applied to leases running by tacit relocation

The Times reported last week on a bitter boundary dispute between two pensioners, each in their eighties, over a strip of land less than a metre wide. Apparently, the legal battle has cost them £500,000, contributed to the death of a spouse and caused stress-related illness. The parties h

Tayside Solicitors Property Centre (TSPC) expects property prices to continue to rise this year. Chairman Hugh Mckay said property sales have risen by 35 per cent in the final four months of last year.

In a video that was filmed to mark Holocaust Memorial Day, Gillian Mawdsley, policy executive at the Law Society of Scotland, reflects on the role that civil servants, lawyers and legislation had to play in facilitating the policies that enabled Nazi atrocities. 

Benjamin Bestgen this week explains that the extinction of rights upon death is more complicated a matter than it first seems. See his last jurisprudential primer here. Fans of old-school computer games might still remember Grim Fandango, where the player guides afterlife travel agent Manny Cal

Mafia bosses have ordered ambulance drivers in Naples to stop using their sirens and lights – because they disrupt drug deals. An ambulance in the city was accosted by armed men on motorbikes on Saturday night, The Times reports.

A prisoner serving a life sentence in HMP Edinburgh who sought a judicial review of the failure of the prison authorities to progress him through the route to parole by moving him to a less secure facility has had his petition refused. The punishment part of William Beggs’ sentence expire

Former sheriff Douglas J. Cusine asks where the responsibility lies in Scotland's malicious prosecution scandal, the greatest crisis in the history of the Crown Office. In his recent article, Douglas Mill, in a semi-jocular way, makes an extremely important point about what the Crown has accepted wa

Dentons’ Scottish private client team is joining Shepherd and Wedderburn. The arrival of the 20-strong team, led by partners Eleanor Kerr and Alexis Graham, will increase the size of Shepherd and Wedderburn’s private client practice to 46.

Joanna Cherry QC has been sacked from the SNP's front bench at Westminster, signalling growing disquiet amongst the party's leadership. She tweeted: "Despite hard work, results & a strong reputation I’ve been sacked today from [SNP] front bench. My constituents & fellow party members w

Faryma Bahrami has returned to full-time practice at Terra Firma Chambers, having spent three years working as an investment professional at Baillie Gifford. Ms Bahrami called to the bar in 2015 having previously held the position of assistant public solicitor on the British Overseas Territory

Scotland recorded 275 deals worth £4.9 billion last year, the Experian United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland M&A Review, shows. The number of deals was almost 50 per cent of 2019's levels and represented a decline of 66 per cent on 2018. The total value of deals fell from the £9.5bn