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The Scotch Whisky Association’s appeal against the legality of Scotland’s minimum pricing regime has been unanimously dismissed by justices in the Supreme Court who found its enabling legislation does not breach EU law and that it is a proportionate means of achieving a legitimate aim. The Scot

Ewan MacDonald-Russell Scottish retail sales decreased by 1.0 per cent on a like-for-like basis compared to October 2016, when they had increased by 0.6 per cent, latest figures from the Scottish Retail Consortium and KPMG have shown.

Jamie Hepburn Scotland’s employment rate grew to 75.2 per cent between July and September while unemployment also rose slightly by 2,000 between over the same period, marking an increase of 0.1 per cent.

Bob Granger Law firm Weightmans has announced its highest ever half year results as it welcomes a new group finance director.

Edinburgh-based Aberdeen Standard Investments plans to launch a new UK investment trust next month to be named, Aberdeen Standard European Logistics Income PLC.

Gordon Wilson Perth-based financial adviser firm Carbon Financial Partners has expanded beyond Scotland after opening a new office in London.

Gary Johnstone (left) and AAB managing partner Graeme Allan Aberdeen-based accountancy firm Anderson Anderson Brown has announced the promotion of Gary Johnstone to director.

The closures in Scotland’s retail units is considerably slowing down - but the country still recorded the largest number of net closures across GB in H1 2017, according to PwC research compiled by the Local Data Company (LDC).

Chris Anderson Edinburgh-based research and Development (R&D) tax credit experts, Jumpstart, have appointed Chris Anderson as their new sales director.

L-R Wynne Evans, compare of the GBEA Awards, opera singer and the famous GoCompare actor, Leah Hutcheon, CEO and founder of Appointedd and Aidan Hetherington, University of Edinburgh Business School. Leah Hutcheon, CEO and founder of Edinburgh-based online business appointment booking software firm

Aberdeen-based global payroll and tax compliance specialist activpayroll is celebrating this week after its Singapore office scooped its first industry award.

Sean McGinness Accountancy firm Saffery Champness says a report published last week by the Office for Tax Simplification (OTS) with the objective of identifying opportunities to simplify the UK VAT system shows that the Scottish tourism and events sector could benefit from some of the recommendation

The average price of a property in Scotland in September 2017 was £144,924 – an increase of 3.1 per cent on September in the previous year and a decrease of 1.3 per cent when compared to the previous month.

A fifth of law firms in the UK have been attacked by hackers, according to a new report published in the wake of the leaked Paradise Papers. The poll found distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks and Structured Query Language (SQL) injections to be the worst threats to law firms, though half o

The Scottish Legal Complaints Commission (SLCC), the independent body that deals with complaints about lawyers, has launched two new guides to help people working with a solicitor to write a will, or involved in an executry (carrying out the instructions in a will) avoid running into difficulties.