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It is estimated that there is almost 11,000 hectares of vacant and derelict land within urban communities in Scotland. These sites comprise unused land, as well as land and buildings that have fallen into disrepair and require remediation before any further development or regeneration can take place.
Learn moreThe environment and tackling environmental issues are at the forefront of climate change discourse, which has gained significant traction in recent years across all sectors. The rural and agricultural sector is no exception to this, with landowners and businesses alike increasingly thinking about how they can diversify, optimise operations, and develop new technologies to reduce their impact on the environment.
Learn moreVery often rural property is not directly accessed from a publicly adopted road. Access may need to be taken over roads, or tracks are owned by a third party. If you are buying rural land, ideally a seller will have a clear servitude right of pedestrian and vehicular access to that land over the road or track owned by the third party specified in their title to the land.
Learn moreDouglas McLachlan and Musab Hemsi of Anderson Strathern together with Basil Manoussos of Edinburgh Napier University’s Cyber Academy explored the important steps businesses must take to secure and protect their valuable IP and trade secrets against internal and external threats.
Learn more‘Casablanca’ is often said to be the ‘greatest movie of all time’: certainly, its lines remain highly quotable and can be used to illustrate virtually any situation imaginable – even recent developments in immigration law…
Learn moreIn our pre-sale due diligence, where appropriate, we ask clients whether the land being sold has been “opted to tax”. Very often clients are puzzled by this query and so in this short article I hope to clarify what we mean when we ask this question and what opting to tax is.
Learn moreIR35 – or off-payroll working – almost felt like a dirty phrase when it expanded from public into the private sector in April 2021. On balance, the administrative and organisational headaches pale in comparison to non-compliance, or outright contractor bans.
Learn moreJoin to hear our tax specialist, Alison Pryde, and corporate law expert, Nick Howie, talk you through the main company law and tax issues to be aware of when you advise a company on a purchase of its own shares.
Learn moreCoronavirus has had a significant impact on everyone’s working and personal life since the World Health Organisation declared a pandemic in March 2020.
Learn moreOur Club HR webinar on 8 February looked at what's on the horizon in employment law for the New Year.
Learn moreOver the festive period, those looking for a non-alcoholic drink in pubs and restaurants may have noticed an increase in their options. The low and non-alcoholic drinks market (‘NoLo’) is experiencing rapid growth, spurred on partly by a more health-conscious population emerging from months of lockdown and by those looking for new experiences.
Learn moreThe last two years have been a relentless barrage of changes at work but, outside of temporary Covid measures, only very minor permanent changes to employment law. The long-promised Employment Bill, Ethnicity Pay Gap Reporting, changes to flexible working and other reforms still simmer on the back burner while the pandemic dominates HR news cycles.
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