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Acas helps the recruitment process
New guide comes with examples – but beware right to work
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EAT reviews capability dismissal procedures
Two cases focus on questions considered by employer
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Auto-enrolment compliance action having an effect
Notices and fixed penalties prompt employer action
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ET fee remission claim form simplified
No separate form to be produced for Scotland
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Zero hours exclusivity regulations published in draft
BIS also offers guidance on when zero hours contracts appropriate
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Aiming high
The Society is right to aim at being a world class professional organisation – but what does it take?
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A Street Law lesson for Street Lawyers
Laura Gulliver tells us more about the latest training for law students joining the Law Society’s Street Law scheme
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Letter: inaccuracies in the register
Are Registers of Scotland staff making more mistakes on title sheets? How big is the problem?
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Letter: when you can't say no?
Cases can arise that it is difficult ethically to turn down
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Under the public gaze
Time for a review of how to uphold the public interest in cases such as Hales/Thomson
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“Discernible benefit” test inappropriate in contact decision
Inner House puts weight on keeping father-daughter relationship
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Conduct of farm business did not determine farm ownership
Wife fails with property claim but wins periodical allowance
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Mediation protection held not relevant to child abduction
Acquiescence established in children being brought to UK
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Children “in transit” still habitually resident in Scotland
Court retained jurisdiction to make s 11 order
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Registers asks for views on Keeper-induced registration
12-week consultation on further aid to completing Land Register
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Spectre of rent control in private residential sector
Bill provision for ministers to limit increases in “hot spots”
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LBTT rates under scrutiny at Holyrood
Finance Committee considering effect on property market
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No 2010 Act protection for corporate homeowner
Sheriff rules additional requirements for repossession do not apply
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Letting agents' statutory code of conduct revealed
Draft code on standards of practice out for views
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Planning decisions: beware judicial review changes
Time limit and permission stage rules in force for new challenges
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Gulliver’s travels
Laura Gulliver, careers and outreach manager at the Society, reveals all about autumn in the Education & Training team
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Letter: pay – it isn't up to women
Letter: the profession as a whole must act to eliminate the pay gap
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Letter: appropriate image?
Why that image of Marilyn Monroe to illustrate "Purpose-driven women?"
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You pay peanuts...
Why is the Scottish Government seemingly bent on undermining justice with its proposed Sheriff Appeal Court legal aid rates?