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The Scottish Land Commission has recently published its seventh Land Rights and Responsibilities Protocol, which focuses on promoting good stewardship and high standards of land management across Scotland.

In a recent article we discussed how, following the COVID-19 pandemic halting the Scottish residential property market for the first time in living memory, the market had experienced a resurgence...

Kevin Clancy, a Partner in our regulatory team, has written a series of articles to guide you through the new short-term let licensing scheme which came into force in Scotland on 1 October 2022.

Sudlows was engaged in 2017 by GSEL in a project to fit out and upgrade GSEL's specialist data centre located at East India Dock House in London.

In ATG Services v Ogilvie Construction, the Court of Session upheld an adjudicator's decision, ruling no breach of natural justice occurred. The adjudicator's use of English case law in a Scots law contract was within their authority, and Ogilvie's defense was rejected.

You don't have to look too hard for examples of countries where systems of rent controls have been tried and found wanting.

In a fascinating court case involving perhaps the best known players in the crytocurrency sector, old legal principles were used to try to solve a new problem.

Drones are used extensively by farmers and surveyors, for example to map and monitor crops. However, they are also used by other people for recreation, particularly for aerial photography: stately homes...

Highlands and Islands Airports Limited (HIAL) has failed to persuade the Scottish Land Court that crofting rights relating to an area of land adjacent to Stornoway Airport had been extinguished in the 1940s.

Implementing a Power of Attorney – it's not exactly a run-of-the-mill topic of conversation for the average 20-something-year-old. Indeed, you might not consider...

The Contract (Third Party Rights) (Scotland) Act 2017 (the Act) came into force on 26 February 2018. It modernises the previous common law rules governing the creation of contractual rights...

In November 2003 the then Justice 1 Committee held an evidence session with John Sturrock QC on Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR).

This month, the Inner House (Scottish appeal court) handed down judgment in Van Oord UK Ltd v Dragados UK Ltd, an appeal from the commercial court concerning the interpretation of an NEC3...

With recent improvements to defined benefit scheme funding, many trustees will be looking to complete a buy-in transaction in the near future.

February's Supreme Court ruling in Bloomberg confirmed that those under criminal investigation have a right, enforceable in the civil courts, to prevent publication of their identity until the moment they are charged.

On 8 June 2023, following consideration of a judicial review, there was a significant legal ruling that the City of Edinburgh Council's Short-Term Lets Licensing Policy is unlawful.

The European Court of Justice published three rulings on Thursday, 9 March 2023, related to the investigatory powers of the European Commission, in particular how the Commission makes the decision...

Traditionally the focus of competition law has been on economic goals. Arguably, that is on the assumption that non-economic public goals are better served through other areas of law.