Nov 8, 2017 | Blog, Residential Property
The Building Societies Association (BSA) has revealed that consumer confidence in the housing market hasn’t fully recovered since June’s General Election. Their recent research found that over a quarter of respondents (27%) do not agree that now is a good time to buy...
Oct 16, 2017 | Blog, Residential Leases
The Scottish Government has published regulations which confirm that the new form of Scottish residential tenancy, known as the Private Residential Tenancy will be introduced on 1 December 2017. This new form of tenancy was created by the Private Housing (Tenancies)...
Aug 29, 2017 | Blog, Wills, Trusts, Estates
Throughout most of the world, disposal of an estate has been a matter of social custom. According to Plutarch, one of the best known Greek biographers and essayist, the written will was invented by Solon, an Athenian politician and lawmaker born in 638BC and was...
Aug 23, 2017 | Blog, In the News
I was chatting to someone the other day who said they had received a parking ticket for parking their van in a Morrison’s car park for four hour. The gentleman said he was just going to throw it away because it was unenforceable. With my solicitor’s hat on I told him...
Aug 12, 2017 | Blog, Employment Law
On 26 July 2017, the Supreme Court unanimously upheld an appeal by UNISON that tribunal fees, introduced by the UK government in 2013, are unlawful under UK and EU law. The ruling, described as “momentous”, has led to the existing fees regime being quashed. UNISON’s...
Aug 2, 2017 | Blog, Charity
I recently read a very moving and interesting article in The Observer of 16/7/2017 by Nicci Gerrard called “Say it with a picture or a song”. It resonated with me for certain reasons, primarily because of the work we do here with adults with incapacity and our...
