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Insights | Employment

When is your self-employed consultant actually an employee?

Even before Covid-19, the nature of work had for some time been changing. Gone were the days when having a job necessarily meant working for a company on a long-term basis, on a fixed schedule and under a contract of employment. It is now quite the opposite.

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Anderson Strathern hires Private Client partner Siobhan McGuigan from Blackadders

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Insights | Employment

Coronavirus insight for employers

This insight explores some of the key issues employers may ask in light of the Coronavirus pandemic. It discusses in general terms what employers are required to do by law, and sets out a number of further steps which businesses and employers may wish to consider as a matter of good practice.

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Family Law launches online clinic during the Covid-19 pandemic

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Insights | Family Law

Self isolation, separation and school closures

We’ve produced a guide to help you if you’re having to self-isolate with a partner you are perhaps in the process of separating from, an ex-partner and/or children.

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Anderson Strathern and business continuity during the Coronavirus pandemic

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Insights | Employment

What happens when employees can’t get to work

When Scotland and other parts of the UK are affected by severe weather, people often ask where employers and employees stand if people can't get to work or the workplace is closed.

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Insights | Tax

Scottish budget 2020-21 includes significant changes for commercial leasing

While history was made when Kate Forbes, the youngest ever Scottish Public finance minister laid out the Scottish Government’s Budget for 2020-2021, the Budget proposed a significant change for commercial leasing in Scotland.

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Insights | Commercial Property

Who cuts the grass on the other side of the fence?

A report on the BBC’s Money Box programme highlighted some questions about maintenance charges in housing estates. How do they arise? Are they fair? Some might ask why somebody would have to pay to cut the grass on a strip of ground that is half a mile distant from their house? And how does the Scottish position differ from that in the case the BBC highlighted of Denise Sullivan?

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Revenue and profits hike at Anderson Strathern

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Anderson Strathern wins top prizes at The Herald Law Awards

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Leading Scottish law firm invests in legal tech partnership

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