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  5. August 2018

August 2018

Acting in the best interest of the company?
New reporting rules for larger companies regarding directors' actions and remuneration will require information to be collected from the new year onwards
Social housing: the ground rules change
Part 2 of the Housing (Scotland) Act 2014 is finally to come into force next year, making important changes both as regards allocation of, and tenancy agreements concerning, social housing
Supporting your EU staff
What can employers do now to help support their EU employees? Prepare for the scheme to secure residence that the Home Office will shortly provide
Sands run out on offshore interests
Taxpayers now have less than two months to ensure their affairs in relation to any offshore assets are in order as respects HMRC, or face severe penalties
Familiar faces not welcome
Is the guidance as to who may act as an appropriate adult at police station interviews unduly restrictive in relation to mental health support workers? The author shares an experience
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In this issue

  • Acting in the best interest of the company?
  • Social housing: the ground rules change
  • Supporting your EU staff
  • Sands run out on offshore interests
  • Familiar faces not welcome
  • Reading for pleasure
  • Opinion: Pol Clementsmith
  • Book reviews
  • Profile: Robert Rennie
  • President's column
  • Moving from Registers Direct to ScotLIS
  • People on the move
  • Good on paper?
  • When 1 + 1 = 3
  • Voice of the child
  • Curators ad litem: who pays, and for what?
  • Limits of a course of conduct
  • Asleep on the job?
  • Affidavits – essential reading
  • Prisoner privacy proportionality
  • Not just a matter of form for employers
  • Scottish Solicitors' Discipline Tribunal
  • Keep your beneficiary nominations up to date
  • See-through titles: setting the scene
  • In-house traineeships: time for an in-depth look
  • Public policy highlights
  • Paralegal pointers
  • Police interview advice: a skill to learn
  • Swimming, not sinking
  • The lawyer and the geek
  • Ask Ash

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