01 Identity
Scottish charity record
- OSCR charity number
- SC017485
- Status
- Active
- Regulatory type
- Standard
- Designated religious body
- No
- Geographical spread
- Scotland and other parts of the UK
- Volunteers
- 0 volunteers
- Staff
- 0
- Postcode
- EH13EG
02 Purpose and work
What the charity exists to do
Primarily to publish the authorised law reports for Scotland, Session Cases which it does in hard copy and, by licence, through commercial legal information vendors. It also runs the annual Macfadyen Lecture series, develops archives to increase accessibility to past Scottish cases.
Charitable purposes
- the advancement of education
- the advancement of human rights, conflict resolution or reconciliation
Beneficiaries
- No specific group, or for the benefit of the community
Activities
- It makes grants, donations or gifts to organisations
- It carries out activities or services itself
Constitutional objectives
6. The Company is established for Charitable Purposes only. 6.1 In particular, the Company is established to provide public benefit in Scotland and elsewhere and to promote the advancement of education and the advancement of human rights, conflict resolution or reconciliation.
03 Annual returns
Income and expenditure history
| Year end | Total income | Donations | Charitable activities income | Trading income | Investment income | Other income | Total expenditure | Raising funds | Charitable activities spending | Other spending | Staff | Return received |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31 December 2025 | £221,980 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £235,220 | £0 | £0 | £0 | 0 | 16 July 2026 |
| 31 December 2024 | £272,478 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £222,269 | £0 | £0 | £0 | 0 | 11 July 2025 |
| 31 December 2023 | £155,701 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £205,270 | £0 | £0 | £0 | 0 | 3 July 2024 |
| 31 December 2022 | £206,601 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £176,805 | £0 | £0 | £0 | 0 | 6 July 2023 |
| 31 December 2021 | £187,537 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £192,559 | £0 | £0 | £0 | 0 | 27 July 2022 |
Figures are those reported by the charity and supplied in the OSCR bulk download. Blank facts remain distinct from zero.
04 Contact record
Principal office or trustees address
- Address supplied to OSCR
- The Stamp Office, c/o Henderson Loggie LLP, Level 5, 10-14 Waterloo Place, Edinburgh
- Website supplied to OSCR
- www.scottishlawreports.org.uk
- Parent charity
- Not supplied
No direct external links on this profile. The official OSCR record and source documentation are available through BritDB’s dedicated source page.
05 Provenance
Source for this profile
© Crown Copyright and database right 2026. Contains information from the Scottish Charity Register supplied by the Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator and licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. BritDB is an independent service and does not claim to be the Scottish Charity Register.