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Harper Macleod has advised on the Scottish aspects of the £107 million sale of technical textiles business Low & Bonar plc to German firm Freudenberg SE, a leading player in the global market for performance materials. Low & Bonar is a Scottish founded and listed company with a manufac

RICS has called on the Scottish government for clarity on when the house buying and selling process can restart as it suggested house prices will be four per cent lower when the market reopens. The surveyors' body said it could take 11 months for prices to recover and said the Scottish government sh

The Crown Office is setting up a dedicated unit to examine COVID-19 deaths, the Lord Advocate, James Wolffe QC, has announced. Mr Wolffe said the unit's findings would help determine if fatal accident inquires should be held and that this included, but was not limited to, "care home workers, frontli

Lockdown has created domestic tensions of many kinds in the home, for those in all different kinds of relationships, writes Lynne Mulcahy. Family lawyers are concerned about a number of adverse effects of the current crisis and the impact on clients (and others), who might be experiencing relat

The Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) is to submit a report to the Crown Office over a potential prosecution in relation to the flaring at the Mossmorran complex in April 2019. Over 900 complaints were received by the agency’s pollution hotline, the highest number the agency has re

Administrative law expert Paul Daly explores the Supreme Court's judgment in R v Adams. On two occasions in the 1970s, Gerry Adams, allegedly a leading member of the Irish Republican Army at the time and later a prominent Sinn Féin politician, was convicted of attempting to escape from lawful

One of Scotland’s leading experts on immigration law, Alan Caskie, will be speaking in the last of the series of webinars on EU citizens’ rights, organised by the Citizens Rights Project. Applications for settled or pre-settled status can be refused if an applicant fails a ‘suitabi

BTO Solicitors LLP has announced the launch of a new online product for its wills & estates and family law clients. This artificial intelligence tool will ease the process for new clients seeking advice on their circumstances. The product, which has been created in conjunction with legal tech co

The Scottish Young Lawyers' Association (SYLA) has launched its new podcast series: Conversations with SYLA.

A man who stole a 2,000-year-old Roman relic has returned it as he believes "the end of the world is near” and wants to clear his conscience. Moshe Manies, who returned the 'ballista stone' on behalf of the man who stole it, posted about the relic on Facebook.

An oil and gas group had has its petition for sanction of schemes of arrangement under part 26 of the Companies Act 2006 granted by the Outer House of the Court of Session. Premier Oil plc and Premier Oil UK Limited proposed identical schemes with the same Scheme Creditors,

The Lands Tribunal for Scotland has rejected an application by a landowner for the discharge of a real burden that would have deprived three proprietors in Glasgow's West End of their servitude right of use of a garden. The real burden bound owners in a disposition from 1882 "not to erect any buildi

With lockdown measures extended by at least another three weeks in Scotland, ESPC and its member solicitor estate agents are calling on the Scottish government for parity across the UK for solicitor estate agents accessing the business rates relief scheme. The differences in approach between the Sco

A lawyer in Scotland's first virtual Sheriff Court hearing has praised the process and suggested areas where it can improve. Craig Watt, a solicitor advocate at Brodies, said on Twitter that he was "very proud" to have appeared in the hearing, over which Sheriff Principal Pyle presided.

Former Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams has won a Supreme Court appeal against his two convictions in 1975 for attempting to escape from detention. In the judgment delivered this morning, the Supreme Court unanimously held that the interim custody order (ICO) made in respect of Mr Adams i