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There has been a quarterly drop of 4.5 per cent in house prices in Aberdeen City and its suburbs, a new report shows. The Aberdeen Solicitors’ Property Centre Limited, working with the University of Aberdeen's Business School Centre for Real Estate Research, has issued new statistics for Q1 20

The Inner House of the Court of Session has found a solicitor guilty of contempt of court in respect of her failure to comply with the court’s order to produce files relating to a complaint. This is the first time a finding of contempt of court has been made for such a failure. The court&rsquo

The average price of a property in March 2023 was £184,877, an increase of three per cent on March 2022, according to the latest provisional statistics from the UK House Price Index. Compared with the previous month, house prices in Scotland increased by 0.7 per cent between February 2023 and

Brodies LLP has launched an international arm: Brodies Middle East LLP, in Abu Dhabi. The firm's Middle East operation will be led by Greg May and Bryan Wilson who have spent 12 and four years respectively in Brodies' UK practice. With their specialist energy and oil and gas expertise, they will con

Stirling's new prison, HMP & YOI Stirling, is opening its doors for locals to explore ahead of its official launch. The new facility succeeds HMP & YOI Cornton Vale.

New figures showing that the number of people dying as a result of workplace incidents in Scotland has reached its highest level since 2019 have prompted urgent calls for reforms to corporate homicide legislation, writes Bruce Craig. Provisional data published by the Scottish Trades Union Congress (

Jonathan Rennie, an employment partner at TLT, has been appointed by the International Council of Arbitration for Sport (ICAS) as an arbitrator at the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), based in Lausanne, Switzerland. CAS is the supreme court of sports dispute resolution. It is independent of any

A property investor who sought the reduction of three personal guarantees granted by him to the Royal Bank of Scotland has been unsuccessful in establishing misrepresentation in an action before the Outer House of the Court of Session. Ved Parkash, 74, argued that he had signed the guarantees on the

It can be tempting to skip over environmental clauses in leases as just being "boilerplate". However, in the context of environmental contamination, to do so could have unexpected and costly implications for landlords and tenants. In the current market, environmental and sustainability provisions ar

Australia has won the latest round in a long-running battle with New Zealand beekeepers over whose honey can be labelled as mānuka honey. Mānuka honey is produced by bees foraging on nectar from mānuka trees, which are indigenous to both countries.

An MSP has called for the Scottish Parliament to instruct an independent KC-led inquiry into some of the Scottish Housing Regulator’s interventions and approach to regulation in general. In a recent speech to the Scottish Parliament, Stirling constituency representative Evelyn Tweed said she f

A 67-year-old waterfowl enthusiast has been sentenced for killing multiple birds. Barry Nicolle, who runs an exotic wildfowl breeding farm in Dumfries and Galloway, has been given a Community Payback Order and ordered to carry out 216 hours of unpaid work after pleading guilty at Dumfries Sheriff Co

Solicitor Aamer Anwar has criticised plans for juryless trials as well as former First Minister Nicola Sturgeon's comments over them. Last week, Ms Sturgeon claimed that even before “the ink was dry on the draft legislation and without a single word of debate… fixed positions had been s

The Scotch Whisky Association’s legal affairs team has been awarded the best Not-For-Profit Organisation Team of the Year at the World Trademark Review Awards in Singapore.

The Law Commission of England and Wales has today published proposals for the reform of sexual offence prosecutions, including introducing juryless trials. Similar proposals in Scotland, predicated on research that did not use actual juries, have incurred the wrath of the legal profession in recent