Blogs & opinions
Facility and circumvention: a high bar
More clients are looking to challenge wills, but it isn't easy
Solicitors overlooking new IHT400 procedure
HMRC will not return principal C1s and C4s sent
Trust Registration Service extends deadline to March
Existing trusts now have until 5 March to register
Access to Funds: don't overlook the option
Scheme an alternative to guardianship in simpler cases
No arrangements on death – who steps in?
A 2016 Act governs entitlement to make funeral arrangements
Employers must not mislead over reason for dismissing
Employee could rely on conduct he was unaware of at the time
ACAS issues guidance on workplace sexual harassment
Advice for employers and workers on dealing with incidents
Right to unclaimed holiday pay not lost after year end
Salesman who preferred to remain self-employed had good claim
Amendment out of time issue may require evidence
Employment judge erred in making preliminary ruling
Minister's marital status could protect against church action
Dismissal due to marital difficulties could found good claim
Counsel: pursuers win sanction in two cases
Guidance provided by Sheriff Appeal Court
Loss of society award: no “tariff” applies
Judge limits award where parties older
Summary decree granted on basis of conviction
Self defence plea had no real prospects of success
QOCS and the dishonesty exception: fair notice?
Court of Appeal upholds finding though no express plea
Letter: ARTL: just a mistake?
Should the Keeper not be held to account for money spent on ARTL, as solicitors are for errors in applications? – with reply from the Keeper
Letter: moral obligations
A challenge to the advice in the Ask Ash November column
Trends and revelations
From the Journal employment survey: sexual harassment must be taken seriously
Survey comments: harassment does happen
The Journal employment survey asked whether readers had experienced sexual abuse or harassment at work. Here is a selection of comments submitted.
Mergers and markets
After the Maclays-Dentons merger, what now for the independent Scottish legal firm?
Financial agreement without legal advice held not unfair
Sheriff Appeal Court upholds parties' freedom of contract
Limits to party's obligations on pension sharing, sheriff holds
Incidental order as way of overcoming liquidity problem refused
Law of accession does not determine matrimonial assets: sheriff
Home built on non-matrimonial plot should be valued separately
Matrimonial home treated like other assets for sharing
No inference to be drawn from title being in joint names
Adoption granted to prevent challenge to other orders
Court allows applications by children's aunt and her husband