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Wright, Johnston & Mackenzie’s planning and environmental solicitor, Elizabeth Tainsh was among a consortium of experts who recently presented sustainable solutions for urban drainage to an audience of housing, planning and environmental experts at a briefing event held at the Scottish Par
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In late November 2015, the Statement of Insolvency Practice for pre-packaged sales in Administrations (called "SIP16") was updated.
Directors, shareholders and others connected with an insolvent company can now have their acquisition of its business through a ‘pre-pack’ sale reviewed by
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Monitoring communication in the workplace
Barbulescu v Romania sheds further light on the interesting subject topic of internet and e-mail use within the workplace. The European Court of Human Rights (“ECHR”) held that subject to reasonableness and proportionality, a person’s Arti
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The Law Society of Scotland yesterday approved WJM's application to be re-accredited as an authorised provider of internal Trainee Continuous Professional Development.
Partner Colin Millar, Senior Associate John Grant, and Associates Annie Pearson and Stuart Gibb, have all been designated by
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Update on Calculation of Holiday Pay
The long awaited decision of the UK Court of Appeal in British Gas v Lock was issued on 7th October but unfortunately does not provide the clarification we had all hoped for on the vexed question of how to calculate holiday pay.
Under the Working Time Dir
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The law has never been entirely clear about how to treat two delays on a construction site, which run alongside each other at the same time but which are the responsibility of different parties.
This is called a "concurrent delay" situation. It arises in a large number of cases, such as where
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So there we have it. The pollsters have been confounded again this year by the public voting for the underdog, this time for Donald Trump in the US presidential election. It makes no difference that Hillary Clinton actually polled more votes than her Republican Party opponent - perhaps in excess of
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Welcome to WJM's March audio newsletter.
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The recent case of HOE International Ltd –v- Andersen and Aykroyd saw the Inner House take an interesting approach to the interpretation of commercial contracts.
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On the 19th September, 2012 parties entered into a share purchase for the sale of Speyside Distillers Company. As is u
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I assist clients with all aspects of commercial property work, including developments, purchases, sales and lease transactions.
I act for a wide range of clients including institutional investors, limited companies, co-operative societies, partnerships as well as private individuals. I
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