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Gillian Ralph Perthshire law firm Macnabs is working in partnership with Churches Action for the Homeless (CATH), a local charity which supports, encourages and promotes the development and delivery of projects to relieve homelessness and poor housing in the Perth & Kinross area, to help them ra

From 12 January 2018, the Additional Support Needs Tribunals for Scotland (ASNTS) will transfer into the Health and Education Chamber of the First-tier Tribunal for Scotland. May Dunsmuir, the current President of the ASNTS, will become the President of this new Chamber. In addition, the Scottish Ch

Paul Hilton In their look back at 2017, ESPC found a continued shortage of properties in the Edinburgh market and a sustained increase in selling prices but have yet to see materialise fears that Brexit would have a negative impact on housing.

An appeal against conviction in which counsel for the appellant made “serious allegations” of impropriety against the trial judge and advocate depute has been dismissed after appeal judges ruled that the claims were “unfounded”. The Appeal Court of the High Court of Justiciary also expressed

The Scottish regional branch of the Property Litigation Association has announced the appointment of its first junior members to the regional sub-committee: Magnus Miller of Davidson Chalmers LLP (pictured) and Chloe Postlethwaite of Brodies LLP. It said in a statement: “The Junior Property Litiga

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Simon Allison Blackadders’ employment team has been nominated for the “Innovation in Practice Award” at the Scottish Legal Awards 2018.

The Scottish government has begun preparations to introduce an EU Continuity Bill to prepare Scotland’s laws for Brexit after UK government legislation was described as being “incompatible with the devolution settlement” by a cross-party Holyrood committee. The Scottish government has an oblig

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Craig Bradshaw Craig Bradshaw gives his top 10 tips for reviewing design responsibility in construction contracts.

David Martyn Former employees of the defunct construction company Land Engineering Scotland have won a quarter million pound compensation award after they were made redundant last year with less than a day’s notice.

The Bar of Ireland has launched a new initiative to promote Ireland as a world-leading centre of legal services after Brexit.

Roseanna Cunningham Plans to introduce legislation to ban the manufacture and sale of plastic stemmed cotton buds have been announced by Environment Secretary Roseanna Cunningham.

The term "spouse" includes a spouse of the same sex for the purposes of European free movement, even in member states whose laws do not provide for same-sex marriage, according to Advocate General Melchior Wathelet. Although member states are free to authorise marriage between persons of the same se

Human rights organisation Reprieve has called for all branches of the US government to uphold fundamental values enshrined in US law by ending the practice of detention without charge or trial at the Guantánamo Bay detention camp on the 16th anniversary of Guantánamo’s opening. On 11 January 200