Blogs & opinions
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
Letter: SLCC ignorance
We have to educate SLCC investigators, and pay for the privilege
Letter: judicial appointments – more debate
Comments on the article in the February edition
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?
Scottish Legal International comes to fruition
Joint initiative aims to promote Scottish profession internationally
Fairness still the test where both cohabitees wealthy
£912,000 award made to partner in legal firm
Sheriff goes with usage in child surname dispute
Both parents’ names adopted where both already in use
Non-parentage order refused despite absence of forms
Sheriff holds clinic lost forms signed by both parties
Should council have appealed permanence order refusal?
Court’s criticism contrasts with approach in English decision
No expenses awarded despite permanence order refusal
Authority entitled to act on report discredited at proof
Crunch time
The independent reports due in the next few months will be an indication of how the profession is seen from outside