Tread Carefully
With gyms shut for lengthy periods due to COVID, many people turned to buying home gym equipment to keep up their fitness routines. One…
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Housing & Landlords | Private Landlords Update
The private housing sector continues to face many challenges during the Coronavirus pandemic – for example, the ongoing temporary ban on…
What makes a trade mark distinctive?
With the news beginning to focus on life other than Covid, there has been an increase in media attention on trade mark infringements. In…
Political Campaigning and the use of Personal Data.
With polling day almost upon us, most of us have been on the receiving end of campaign activity relating to the upcoming parliamentary…
Surgery Premises – Getting all your bricks in a row
When we act for a seller or a buyer of a practice, in most cases the focus is primarily on the goodwill of the practice. There is a side…
Mental Health and Wellbeing Awareness: Working From Home
We are all guilty of failing to make our mental health and wellbeing a priority at times, but the pandemic has taught us the importance of…
Data Protection webinar: Privacy Program Management
In an age of big data and machine learning, many organisations have found they have a greater need to process and store personal data. This…
No change, doesn’t mean no effect
The beginning of the new tax year on 6 April is often accompanied by changes to allowances and tax thresholds. But like so much of…
Vaccines and Children
It was recently announced that over half the Scottish population have received their first dose of a Covid 19 vaccine. This is an…
Caterpillar Meme Wars – Colin v Cuthbert demonstrates the additional considerations required in modern litigation
Unless you have been living under a rock for the past couple of weeks, you will be aware that there is an ongoing litigation involving…
Register of Controlled Interests in Land: How will it work?
Since becoming law, the Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2016 has introduced a number of changes affecting the rural sector in Scotland and the…
All bark AND bite?
In the last year many households found that thanks to a global pandemic, home working became more prevalent. As a by-product, it was the…
Employment Law | Employment Update April 2021
As HR professionals and senior managers, you know only too well the importance of keeping up to date with employment laws and how they may…
Tiger Woods – Driving the Fair Way
The LA County Sheriff’s office report into Tiger Woods’ latest driving incident alleges that he was driving at around 87MPH on a 45MPH road…
Industry accreditation for Edinburgh solicitor
A senior solicitor at Thorntons in Edinburgh has received an accreditation from the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (APIL), further…
Cyber-attacks. What can you do to protect your organisation's personal data?
Almost daily we are seeing cyber-attacks in the news. From nurseries to universities, to SMEs and, to corporate giants like Microsoft…
Retirement and Dental Bodies Corporate
We have looked in previous articles at the issues which practices need to consider when they operate as a limited company, known in the…
Sleeping on the Job?
Being paid to sleep may sound like the dream for some (pun intended); however, the reality is that for some vocations sleep-in shifts are…
Employment Law | Handling Investigations Remotely
Employment Law Partner, Chris Phillips takes you through handling investigations arising from disciplinary and grievance…
Are Virtual Operating Models Here to Stay?
Like many other people, I’m just coming to the end of a full year working exclusively, or at least mainly, from home. One of the most…
Agricultural Tenants Right of Relinquishment and Assignation
On 28 February 2021, the rules about the relinquishment and assignation of tenancies in Scotland came into effect. Section 110 of the…