How the Title to your property might impact on your Will
In Scotland, where two or more people buy a property together, they should be faced with the decision of whether to include a so-called “…
Care Home Negligence Claims
Placing an elderly or vulnerable loved one into a care home is never a decision taken lightly and is often a last resort. The health and…
Why Redundancies Could Lead to Increased Subject Access Requests
An unanticipated consequence of the increase in redundancies resulting from the pandemic is that many organisations find themselves in…
Land Ownership by Trusts and Charities
Land ownership in Scotland is a key policy area for the Scottish Government. A number of changes in law and policy have been…
Sick Pay for Self-Isolation during the Covid-19 pandemic
Law week saw the reporting of new cases of coronavirus in school children and a new cluster of cases centred around a Coupar…
Discharging Your Mortgage in Scotland
The early 1990’s saw the start of a property boom in the UK.
The number of mortgage products increased, interest rates were favourable…
Looking After Remote Workers: An Employer's Duties
Home and remote working have now become a fact of life for many of us, and with access to reliable technology virtual meetings and…
Stay-safe-cation!
After more than 4 months of lockdown things are slowly starting to return to normal and instead of jet setting abroad many more people are…
Job losses predicted to be worse than previously feared
A recent survey commissioned by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) and recruitment company Adecco indicates a…
Travelling Abroad and the Quarantine rules: How will this affect your employment?
On 26 July the Scottish and UK Governments announced that, until further notice, a 14-day quarantine period will be reintroduced for…
TUPE and Multiple Transferees
In the case of ISS Facility Services NV v Sonia Govaerts & Atalian NV, formerly Euroclean NV, the ECJ has held that, where there is a…
Returning to Work: the end of shielding
Since March 2020 and the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic in the UK, the country’s health has been of paramount concern and for none more…
Update: EDPB offers guidance on Schrems II Judgement
Following the judgement of the Court of Justice of the European Union in the recent Schrems II case the European Data Protection…
Using data to combat COVID-19 in the workplace
Practical, Technical and Legal hints and tips for processing employee health data
Morgan O'Neill, Director of Data Protection…
Staying Connected in a Virtual Office.
Following the announcement on the 24th March that the UK was going into ‘lock-down’, most businesses had to flip their operating…
Personal Data Breaches
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) have recently released details of personal data breach trends linked to breaches reported…
European Court decision in Schrems II case could create compliance nightmare for EU organisations
Standard Contractual Clauses remain valid but EU-US Privacy Shield struck downOn Thursday 16 July, the Court of Justice of the…
The importance of instructing an expert injury lawyer
Selecting the right lawyer at the start of a personal injury case is the single most important thing you can do to influence the outcome of…
No trace of the UK’s Track and Trace App
Back in May, it was all hands to the wheel to roll out the UK Government’s ‘Track and Trace’ contact tracing phone app to support existing…
From Close Pass to Safe Pass
With more people taking to their bikes as a means of exercise and transport during lockdown, I was heartened to see that Operation Close…
Succession Planning for Dentists
It has always been a sensible step to consider the future, and in particular what would happen to your estate and assets if something were…