Blogs & opinions
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New Scottish tax rates, bands and reliefs in force
Taxpayers' affairs become more complex with extra bands
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Commissary and OPG fees about to rise
Inflation increases in force from 25 April
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Styles agreed for confirmation declarations
Society and SCTS settle post-2016 Act forms
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GDPR: check you are ready for May start date
Guidance issued on stronger personal data protection rules
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Beneficiary distribution: best practice to check insolvency
A simple search could avoid making the wrong payout
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Letter: belief in the soul
Is it right that a doctor's letter should be given less weight if not "on soul and conscience"?
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Mind the gap
Do the Gender Pay Gap Regulations provide enough useful information to justify their approach?
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Holiday pay: average over what period?
Strict 12 weeks in regulations preferred to annualised sum
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Award limit annual increases about to come in
Inflation linked rises apply to claims lodged from 6 April
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Is a change of care provider a TUPE transfer?
EAT refers important case back to new tribunal
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Forty year old rule called into question?
Burchell test queried in Supreme Court, but no early threat
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Employers should consider “bumping” in redundancy cases
Duty is to look at possibility rather than to carry out
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Letter: SLCC ignorance
We have to educate SLCC investigators, and pay for the privilege
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Letter: judicial appointments – more debate
Comments on the article in the February edition
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Case to be made
If the independent legal aid review could not find evidence to support a general rise in fees, what should the response be?
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Scottish Legal International comes to fruition
Joint initiative aims to promote Scottish profession internationally
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Fairness still the test where both cohabitees wealthy
£912,000 award made to partner in legal firm
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Sheriff goes with usage in child surname dispute
Both parents’ names adopted where both already in use
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Non-parentage order refused despite absence of forms
Sheriff holds clinic lost forms signed by both parties
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Should council have appealed permanence order refusal?
Court’s criticism contrasts with approach in English decision
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No expenses awarded despite permanence order refusal
Authority entitled to act on report discredited at proof
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Crunch time
The independent reports due in the next few months will be an indication of how the profession is seen from outside
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Planning Bill set to bring another overhaul
Aim is to strengthen and simplify system
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Scots standard commercial leases now available
Property Standardisation Group's work produces results