Feb 1, 2018 | Blog, In the News
Organisations with 250 or more workers must publish their figures to report gender pay gap information by April this year. So far it seems that just over 500 out of the anticipated 9000 affected groups have done so. The next quarter of the year is therefore going to...
Jan 24, 2018 | Blog, Residential Property
Halifax has revealed that prices in the final quarter of 2017 (October-December) were 2.7% higher than in the same three months of the previous year. In addition house prices in that quarter were 1.3% higher than in the previous quarter (July-September).However...
Jan 22, 2018 | Blog, In the News
This case serves as a reminder that an employer can be held liable for acts or omissions of their employees if it can be shown that those acts or omissions took place in the course of employment. In Various Claimants v WM Morrisons Supermarkets Plc, the High Court...
Jan 15, 2018 | Blog, In the News
According to The Independent “Humans have produced about 8.3 billion metric tonnes of plastic since 1950”.Researchers writing in the journal , Science Advances ,warned that if current trends continued some 12 billion tonnes of plastic waste would be in landfill sites...
Jan 11, 2018 | Blog, Residential Property
New research by Halifax has revealed that the total value of privately owned UK housing stock has surpassed £6 trillion for the first time. Since 2007 the total value of private residential property in the UK has grown by £1.94 trillion (or 48%) to an estimated £6.02...
Jan 9, 2018 | Blog, Powers of Attorney, Wills, Trusts, Estates
People are certainly living longer. The number of people in Scotland, according to the National Records of Scotland in September 2016, living for more than a century has increased over the last ten years. In 2005 there were 900 centenarians in Scotland, an increase of...
