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Fife Law Centre (FLC) has celebrated its 10th anniversary at an event in the Lochgelly Centre. The local community legal service was set up in 2009 to improve access to justice by providing free legal services to people in Fife who cannot afford to pay for legal services and who have difficulty acce

More than 100 guests representing 80 organisations attended Lindsays' annual Third Sector Drinks Reception, held at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh on Wednesday, to discuss issues emerging for this year and beyond. Attendees heard from some of the most important figures in the field, wi

The Edinburgh Tax Network, in conjunction with CIOT and Terra Firma Chambers, will present a seminar on Entrepreneurs’ Relief Bear Traps on Thursday 27th February 2020 at the Mackenzie Building, Old Assembly Close, Edinburgh. The speaker will be Bob Langridge of Brodies. Registration will comm

Environmentalists at Yale Law School have joined peers at Harvard Law School in a campaign targeting recruitment events for Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP until the international law firm drops ExxonMobil as a client. The firm, which employs over 1,000 lawyers, has successfully def

A round-up of human rights stories from around the world. Statement by Ambassador Karen Pierce, UK Permanent Representative to the UN, at the United Nations Security Council briefing by the Chairperson from the OSCE

A pair of senior Russian police officers have been spared jail after creating a drug den to later bust. They convinced three known drug users to manufacture and consume the opioid "krokodil" in a flat using ingredients they stole from police evidence stores.

Technology in the 21st Century is providing us with the means to communicate our thoughts and ideas across the planet in a way that would have been unthinkable, even 10 years ago. However good the technology is, it cannot pick up the subtleties of a language, the culture that underpins it, or even t

A woman who sued her former partner for more than £40,000 following the sale of their jointly owned home, claiming that he had agreed not to take his share of the property if their relationship ended, has had her “unjustified enrichment” action rejected by appeal judges. A sheriff

Murray Beith Murray has announced a number of internal promotions across its asset protection and property groups. Fraser Scott, who has been with Murray Beith Murray since 2015, has been promoted from senior solicitor to associate. He works in the firm’s asset protection group and specialises

Lindsays' private client team in Dundee has welcomed Harriet Grant, who has recently joined the firm as a solicitor from Burness Paull. Ms Grant deals with a wide variety of private client matters including the administration of executries and the drafting of wills and powers of attorney.

Over the past three months, the average property selling price in Edinburgh, the Lothians, Fife and the Borders was £248,009 – an increase of 2.1 per cent on the previous year. In Edinburgh, the average selling price was £265,748, a 1.8 per cent increase compared to last year.

Shirley McIntosh, tax partner at RSM, discusses the challenges facing the legal sector amid changes in property tax. The start of the new tax year on 6 April 2020 will see the latest in a long line of changes in the taxation of property introduced since April 2013, from new and abolished rules, to a

New rules affecting Chapter 42A personal injury actions in the Court of Session will be analysed at an information event by the Faculty of Advocates. The revised process, outlined in a Practice Note, is designed to facilitate the more efficient progress of actions by early disclosure, discussion and

Pinsent Masons has advised Aberdeen-based John Wood Group PLC on the sale of its industrial services business to KAEFER, a technical services provider, for $104 million (£80m) and a further payment of up to around $14m (10.8m) pending achievement of agreed financial goals. The divestment is an

A new report published by Amnesty International today shows how the Saudi Arabian authorities are using a counter-terrorism court – the Specialised Criminal Court – as a weapon to systematically silence peaceful opposition in the country. Charges used in proceedings in the court fre