Jul 29, 2013 | Bullet Point Update
The Marriage and Civil Partnership (Scotland) Bill (“the Bill”) was introduced to the Scottish Parliament last month. This Note looks at the main changes which the Bill contains by outlining the current position and then going on to look at some of the main things the...
Jul 9, 2013 | Bullet Point Update
The Waste (Scotland) Regulations 2012 as affecting businesses That title of this BPU echoes one of Lady Smith’s Opinions in a recent case in the Court of Session: North Lanarkshire Council v Scottish Ministers and Shore Energy. The actual words of the opening sentence...
May 30, 2013 | Bullet Point Update
“…an occupation of some kind…” or Smoke gets in your eyes On the question of smoking (and more) we have come a long way since Lady Bracknell’s interrogation of Jack Worthing as a prospective husband for her daughter Gwendolyn: LADY...
May 7, 2013 | Bullet Point Update
This month is the end of one tax year and the beginning of another. So it is apt that tax in some way or other should be the focus of this BPU. But (with a nod to Ebeneezer Scrooge’s three ghosts) we do not dwell here on taxes past or on taxes present – but on...
Mar 27, 2013 | Bullet Point Update
The phrase “execution in counterpart” might bring to mind “the worst excesses of the French revolution” (to borrow from Lady Bracknell in The Importance of being Earnest) as suggesting guillotines operating in gory tandem. But this Note touches on nothing gory. ...
Mar 4, 2013 | Bullet Point Update
Spring is (almost) in the air – traditionally the best time to move house. With Britain having lost its AAA credit rating and the housing market rather gloomy anyway it may hardly seem so. But life goes on – and so must the buying and selling of houses. Estate...
