Blogs & opinions
Instructing expert held not reasonable given issues in case
Sheriff accepts skill of witness, but not need for instruction
Child supervision duty breached in farm gate accident
Inner House holds Lord Ordinary entitled to find for pursuer
Vicarious liability for independent contractor held established
Beauty therapist akin to employee of salon, which exercised control
No precautions held necessary over stone in path
Occupier's liability case fails over likelihood of harm
New Scottish tax rates, bands and reliefs in force
Taxpayers' affairs become more complex with extra bands
Commissary and OPG fees about to rise
Inflation increases in force from 25 April
Styles agreed for confirmation declarations
Society and SCTS settle post-2016 Act forms
GDPR: check you are ready for May start date
Guidance issued on stronger personal data protection rules
Beneficiary distribution: best practice to check insolvency
A simple search could avoid making the wrong payout
Letter: belief in the soul
Is it right that a doctor's letter should be given less weight if not "on soul and conscience"?
Mind the gap
Do the Gender Pay Gap Regulations provide enough useful information to justify their approach?
Holiday pay: average over what period?
Strict 12 weeks in regulations preferred to annualised sum
Award limit annual increases about to come in
Inflation linked rises apply to claims lodged from 6 April
Is a change of care provider a TUPE transfer?
EAT refers important case back to new tribunal
Forty year old rule called into question?
Burchell test queried in Supreme Court, but no early threat
Employers should consider “bumping” in redundancy cases
Duty is to look at possibility rather than to carry out