Under Scotland's Mental Health Act, someone with a mental illness can be detained against their will if a doctor and a mental health of...

The Duke of Roxburghe and other members of the nobility have lobbied the government on its moves to help individuals and communities buy l...

The Duke of Roxburghe could net £1.5 million a year from a wind farm on the Lammermuir Hills. The Earl of Moray is estimated to receive £2 ...

Daughters of titled aristocrats are calling for a re-examination of inheritance rules amid claims the proposed change in succession laws...

Scottish "noble" families have survived for centuries. In many cases these are people who gained control of large areas of the cou...

In Scotland's feudal system of land tenure all rights of ownership are vested in the Crown as Paramount Superior. All rights of land ow...

An earl will take over from a duke as president of one of Scotland’s major conservation charities. The 16th Earl of Lindsay will take on the...

Ten years after legislation banned the blood-sport forever, fox-hunting still goes on. The Protection of Wild Mammals (Scotland) Act was pas...

Scotland’s aristocrats are earning millions of pounds from windfarms on their estates , according to figures from the Renewable Energy Found...

Eggs are crushed, chicks trampled, nests smashed, baits poisoned, birds trapped and shot – and all to line the pockets of the landowners. B...

Instead of claiming what they are entitled to , those law-makers and upholders of law and order in the House of Lords are on the fiddle with...

One of Scotland's biggest landowners, the Duke of Buccleuch, has died . As recently as 2005, the duke was believed to be Britain's b...

The Royal Family - Capitalism personified . The Independent on Sunday interviewed Prince Andrew , second son of the Queen or "Air Miles...