Jul 9, 2015 | Bullet Point Update
Legal Writings (Counterparts and Delivery) (Scotland) Act 2015 (“the Counterparts Act”) General background Contracts may be formed in various ways. For example, in relation to the sale and purchase of a house, a succession of formal letters are normally exchanged...
Jun 25, 2015 | Bullet Point Update
The words in the title appeared in the notebook of Mrs Melanie Gibson who died on 7th October 2012. Her notebook also included other wording as follows: “20/01/12 – Nearly 51? – Life is shit at this time!!! Please remember. If Anne is still alive,...
May 14, 2015 | Bullet Point Update
EU Regulations tend to be viewed as adding complexity to our lives rather than the reverse. That view may often be well-founded. But the EU Regulation concerning succession to property on death is welcome. Where people own property abroad succession matters on death...
May 11, 2015 | Bullet Point Update
enancies (like people) come in all shapes and sizes. But when it comes to PRS tenancies they are usually either ‘assured’ tenancies or ‘short assured’ tenancies (both under the Housing (Scotland) Act 1988). That’s a bit of an over-simplification. Some PRS tenancies...
Apr 10, 2015 | Bullet Point Update
One of the things the Chancellor, George Osborne, said in his Budget speech on 18th March was: “I can also tell the House that we will conduct a review on the avoidance of inheritance tax through the use of deeds of variation. It will report by the autumn. We will...
Mar 5, 2015 | Bullet Point Update
Some key points about the current regime for ISAs “Individual savings accounts” – generally referred to as “ISAs” – were introduced by Gordon Brown in 1999. The general idea was encouraging savings by providing that, subject to modest limits, funds...
