Back to Work - “The New Normal”? – Employment Law and Health & Safety Issues
28 August 2020
Whatever the ’new normal’ is, there are many employment law and Health & Safety issues to consider.
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Community Right to Buy for Sustainable Development?
27 August 2020
In search of ‘sustainable development’; a community right or thinly veiled land grab? Property lawyer Mark McEvinney explores the Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2016: Community Right to Buy for Sustainable Development.
If your name’s not down, you’re not coming in
07 August 2020
From next week, Scottish pubs and restaurants will be required to collect contact details of customers. The move comes in response to an increase in Covid infection rates seen in Scotland over the past weeks. Unlike collection of these details to date, which has been carried out on a voluntary basis, it will become a statutory requirement for businesses to collect contact details and, as such, personal data.
To PPE, or not to PPE? - That is the question for employers
07 August 2020
As the lockdown imposed by the Covid-19 pandemic eases, it is noteworthy that the attitudes displayed towards risk appear to vary between extremes, particularly notable at that local microcosm of society, the local supermarket.
8th Edition of the Ogden Tables Released - What’s New?
31 July 2020
Personal injury practitioners will be well versed in the use of the Ogden tables when calculating lump sum compensation in personal injury and fatal accident claims. Now, nine years after the 7th Edition was published in 2011, the 8th edition of the Ogden tables was published on 17 July 2020 which brings these in line with the Office of National Statistics (ONS) 2018 mortality projections which were published in December 2019.