- 22 December 2023
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- Date: 30 January 2024
Scottish Referrals Network CPD: Essential private client tips for 2024
Tax planning expert Alasdair Johnstone and Caroline Pringle, specialist in estate planning, covered essential tips for private client practitioners. They discussed upcoming deadlines, planning for the year ahead and what you should be raising with their clients.
Learn more- Date: 16 January 2024
Club HR: Employment law update – what’s on the horizon for 2024?
Our experts, Dawn Dickson and Clare McDairmant, discussed the prospective changes to employment law in 2024.
Learn more- 24 November 2023
A Guide to the Community Right to Buy in Scotland
If you hadn’t previously heard of the Community Right to Buy, after STV’s recent series, Payback, it may well be on your radar. It’s a complex topic, so we’ve provided an overview of this right, its evolution, and the steps involved in exercising it.
Learn more- Date: 7 December 2023
Building your cyber-security toolkit: trends, threats and response strategy
Anderson Strathern’s Douglas McLachlan and Silver Cloud’s Kevin Robertson explored the steps to prevent and prepare for a cyber attack.
Learn more- 2 November 2023
Is the current approach to inheritance tax fair?
It has always been the role of the law to define what is meant by ’fair.’ However, anyone scanning the news or social commentary will be unsurprised to hear that this topic is not without controversy.
Learn more- 2 November 2023
Don’t be fooled by common myths around separation and divorce
Family dramas, weddings, divorces and separations are the foundation of countless box-sets, books and films.
Considering most of us know someone who has been through a domestic upheaval, it’s little wonder so much of family law is misunderstood.
Learn more- 2 November 2023
New landlord requirements could have big implications for tourism
When the pandemic put the kibosh on international travel, Scottish tourism got a welcome boost.
People who would normally have jetted off to Greece or Spain found themselves exploring the stunning wildernesses of the Highlands and Islands, or the rugged coastlines of the Borders, often for the first time.
Learn more- 31 October 2023
Diversification and Agricultural Tenancies – proposals for change make environmental impact a factor to be considered
Opening their gates to the public for fruit picking or, more commonly at this time of year, pumpkin picking has become a popular choice of diversification activity for many farmers.
Diversification is the use of land and fixed equipment from an agricultural holding for non-agricultural purposes.
Learn more- 27 October 2023
Wills for Crofters – our six top tips
Making a Will is crucial to ensure your assets are passed on exactly how you wish when you are no longer around. Crofters aren’t exempt from this. In fact, there are multiple factors which mean that it could be argued that a well thought through Will is even more essential for crofters to put in place.
Learn more- 26 October 2023
The Captain Tom Foundation – where are we now?
One year on from our original review of the Captain Tom Foundation, stories about the charity continue to emerge, making headline news. The Charity Commission inquiry has escalated its initial compliance checks into a full statutory investigation and it has recently been reported that the charity is likely to wind up. There are some valuable lessons for charity trustees...
Learn more- Date: 21 November 2023
Scottish Referrals Network: Comparing Private Client Law in Scotland vs England & Wales
Our private client law experts, Robert Cole and Carole Tomlinson, explored the key differences between Scots and Anglo-Welsh law.
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