Sep 16, 2016 | Blog, Family Law
I have been practising family law for quite some time now and over the years it never fails to surprise me that many people still hold strongly to a number of misconceptions about family law in Scotland. The woman will automatically get custody of the children- NO In...
Sep 13, 2016 | Blog, Commercial Property
The Assessment of Energy Performance of Non-domestic Buildings (Scotland) Regulations 2016 came into effect on 1 September 2016 making it the responsibility of owners of commercial property to improve the energy efficiency of their buildings on either a sale or the...
Sep 6, 2016 | Blog, Employment Law
A bakery employee from the Welsh valleys was dismissed after a hand hygiene “lapse” during a night shift. Following the employee’s claim for unfair dismissal, the Tribunal ruled that the dismissal was fair. Sion Donovan, who was employed by Greggs for 11 years, went...
Sep 2, 2016 | Blog, Residential Property
Here at Mitchells Roberton we have a busy private client department and an active estate agency and we are used to selling a number of properties which form part of a deceased person’s estate or are being sold by a financial guardian of an adult with incapacity. Some...
Aug 31, 2016 | Blog, In the News
Digital framework is crucially important to UK citizens and the Government is seeking to propose new legislation to facilitate wide reaching coverage, improved connectedness and speedier services. What many people do not know is that at the moment the vast telecoms...