We are pleased to announce the opening of our new Hamilton office as part of the ongoing growth of the firm. The office is based in the Brandon House Business Centre next to the bus station in Hamilton. The new new office allows us to offer appointments to clients in the centre of Hamilton which […]
Read more →We were more than a little surprised to hear that University of Glasgow academics are developing a board game to help the public negotiate the complex legal world of marriage. The new board game prototype is called Legally Wed. It has been inspired by the work of academics at the university’s School of Law – […]
Read more →The rights of grandparents to see their grandchildren is something we are often asked about. Our trainee solicitor, Louise Scullion, wrote a blog post some time ago on the issue and we attached the web address for the full article here: http://www.hamiltonross.co.uk/grandparents-rights-not-so-grand/ When considering a request for such an order the court must have regard […]
Read more →A rise in guardianship orders giving guardians control over the affairs of adults who lack the capacity to make their own decisions has been described as concerning recently. A report by the Mental Welfare Commission for Scotland relating to guardianships found that guardianship orders in Scotland rose by 12% to 13,501 between 2017/18 and the […]
Read more →A Fife Council adoption order will go ahead despite an attempt by the father to prevent it. The man was described as aggressive and it was said he kept his two children in a dirty home and failed to prevent contact with a known sex offender. The Sheriff Principal held that living with the man […]
Read more →Relationships And The Law Earlier this year, Rebecca Steinfeld and Charles Keidan, lost their Court of Appeal case, in which they sought the right to be able to enter into a civil partnership, instead of a marriage. The couple reject the traditional notion of marriage and wanted a civil partnership which is currently only available […]
Read more →Having a will is important because if you die without making a will there are certain rules called the rights of succession which will dictate how your money, property and possessions will be allocated which may not be the way that you would have wanted it to be distributed. For example, unless there is a […]
Read more →The Office for National Statistics recently published figures relating to the make-up of families across the UK. It highlighted that the number of cohabiting couple families has grown considerably in recent years. The figures from the ONS show that cohabiting couple families grew by 29.7% between 2005 and 2015, to a total of 3.2 million, […]
Read more →Family Is What You Make It What is a family? Is it something the law can define? How does Scot’s law adapt to this ever changing term? Historically in Scotland, like in many other jurisdictions, the nuclear family was the primary family unit. This simply encompassed a married man and woman and their children, and […]
Read more →The Civil Partnership Act 2004 introduced the UK to a new relationship status, the Civil Partnership. The Act was explicit in its terms; only two people of the same sex could enter into such a relationship status. This was the means deployed by government to address inequality between homosexual couples and their heterosexual counterparts. By […]
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