Rural tax – know your property!
You might think the difference between a residential and a non-residential property would be obvious. By its nature, the farmhouse is different from the field and the cottage different from...
How cyber-secure are you?
In case you missed it, October is Cyber Security Awareness Month. It seems like just about every day brings another news story about an ever increasing list of businesses and...
Grand Designs – what makes a rural development plot a dream home?
For many, finding and buying your dream home is a matter of browsing online property pages until the right one comes along and everything falls into place. For others, the...
Universities Conference
Thank you for joining our legal experts Andrew Brown, Paul Brown and Douglas McLachlan to hear about the key employment, immigration and data protection concerns for universities. We covered: Positive...
Property services pop up clinic
The Coronavirus pandemic has changed the property requirements of many, both personally and in business. Now that we can meet in person again, we have arranged a free pop up...
Secret Wills – Does your will get the Royal Treatment?
The High Court has ruled that the will of the late Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh shall remain a secret for 90 years. It was decided that it was both...
Finding a route out of the HGV driver crisis
The shortage in commercial goods drivers across the UK is now in plain sight; with empty shelves in the shops and closed petrol stations. How have we got into this...
Temporary Visas for HGV Drivers and Poultry Workers
It’s difficult to miss this week’s coverage of petrol stations running short of fuel supplies, and scenes in the media of queues and fist fights on the forecourts. As if...
Natural Capital webinar
We hosted our online event covering COP26 and Natural Capital opportunities for rural landowners on 12th October. In the run up to COP26, the interaction between business and nature is...
Annual Charities Conference 2021
We hosted our online charities conference on 7 October looking at how Scotland’s charities can best respond to the changing landscape and how a commercial mind-set and sound governance can...
Employee Ownership Trusts – the quietly booming industry
There is one area of the Scottish economy that is quietly booming. Amidst talk of the succession crisis with the ‘silver tsunami’ of business owners who reach retirement age and...
Online CPD – Scottish Referral Network
In our CPD seminar series hosted for solicitors in our Scottish Referral Network we share insight into a different specialist practice area each quarter. At our event on 5 October,...
Anderson Strathern promotes 25 staff and recruits 18 more
We’re pleased to announce that we’ve made 25 promotions – including at director, senior associate and associate level. The three senior associates promoted to director are Laura McCabe, Danielle Edgar,...
In the dark over the future of high street restaurants
Food delivery has been reshaping the restaurant industry since the late 2000s. As more people order food online correspondingly there has been a huge increase in delivery apps. Depending on...
Independent Schools Conference
The first in our bi-annual Independent Schools Conference series took place on Tuesday 28th September. We focused on the key issues facing Principals, Heads, Bursars, Senior Managers and Governors in...
Our rural economies are under threat
Country sports tourism in Scotland, including stalking, shooting and fishing, was estimated to be worth over £155 million to the Scottish economy in pre-pandemic data in 2019, supporting thousands of...
Club HR: Considerations for a return to the office and hybrid working
Our Club HR webinar on 22 September looked at considerations for a return to the office and hybrid working. Our in‐house specialists Jemma Forrest, Robin Turnbull and Laura McCabe discussed...
Anderson Strathern and the Federation of Scottish Theatre’s Legal Update
At our legal update with the Federation of Scottish Theatre, our legal experts Paul Brown, Douglas McLachlan and Scott Fyfe discussed key immigration, data sharing and contracting need to knows...
Anderson Strathern launches new online will service
Our private client team, who specialise in personal legal needs, has this week announced the launch of a new service to help clients get started with their wills. From today,...
Anderson Strathern makes two senior hires to its residential team
We’re delighted to announce that we’ve made a duo of senior appointments, with a partner promotion and a hire to our residential property team. Jemma Richardson, deputy head of the...
COP26: current considerations and future impact for your clients
Our special online event on 1 September 2021, 4-5:30pm (GMT) looked at COP26, net zero ambitions for the future and low carbon investment opportunities in Scotland. Brought to you in...
Agricultural Permitted Development Rights
On 1 April 2021 a number of changes to permitted development rights for agricultural land in Scotland were introduced. Below we provide an overview of the key changes to...
An introduction to Natural Capital
Natural Capital is a phrase that we come across increasingly regularly in the media today. But what does it mean and how does it affect you and me? In many...
Increased transparency in land ownership
In early February, the third and final draft of The Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2016 (Register of Persons Holding a Controlled Interest in Land) (Scotland) Regulations 2021 (“the Regulations”) was...
Managing your digital legacy before logging off for good
Many of us do almost everything online these days, from banking and food shopping to virtual calls with our friends and colleagues. We are increasingly living our lives online and...
What farmers and landowners should know about livestock worrying
Following the surge in Covid-19 lockdown walks in the countryside, and an increase in dog ownership, there has been a sharp rise in the number of dogs attacking livestock. Despite...
Operators 1 – Landowners 0
Although the updated Electronic Communications Code (‘the Code’) was only enacted in 2018, it has generated a huge amount of case law in a short space of time. In essence,...
Will Brexit change employment law?
The UK’s transition period out of the EU ended on 31 December 2020 and existing EU law was converted into domestic UK law. There’s often a perception that the protections...
Time to get your charitable house in order
“Friluftsliv” is the Norwegian word for “fresh air life” – the enjoyment of all things outdoors. I’ve been loving the fresh air socialising forced upon us by Covid – no...
Why it’s smart to know about mediation
A person might have a family or relationship issue, or worries at work or perhaps they are a landlord having problems with their tenant. For businesses, the problem could be...