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Welcome to WJM’s May Employment Briefing. In Employment Briefing we round-up changes to the law and interesting cases which could have an effect on you or your business.
In this issue, we start with the latest European Court of Justice decision which states that holiday pay must include commi
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Our dedicated Planning & Environment team acts for landowners, farmers and estate owners.
We are experts in undertaking the following types of work:
Acting for clients in planning appeals, including representation of clients at Planning Committees, and Inquiry and Hearing Sessions
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WJM's John Grant has been contributing to the Scottish Licensed Trade News (SLTN). SLTN is the key publication for the leisure and hospitality trade in Scotland.
In the current issue, John writes on how the recent holiday pay decisions will impact on the leisure and hospitality trade, suggesting th
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Many farmers, landowners and communities are interested in renewable energy investment.
Reasons vary: some want to reduce their own power bills through a single installation, some want to generate power commercially, and others have been approached by commercial developers seeking land as part of l
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Snowdrops are out, primroses have been sighted, and daffodils are well on their way to flowering. Lambing has started in the mild East, and the West will soon follow suit. There’s no avoiding it – Spring is on the way, and with it comes the urge to clean the house and bring your affairs
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It's been 20 years since the Inland Revenue issued its income drawdown rules for pensions.
The change in 1995 brought into consideration the first real alternative to annuities for retirement income. Drawdown has always been viewed as the riskier pension provision route, and rightly so, due t
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This article considers changes to the taxation of income drawdown pension funds and retirement annuities, and asks some key questions that should help you identify whether your arrangements need to be reviewed.
The issue of Pension Death Benefits is becoming of greater importance as more people of
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In this Briefing Note, we consider a recent English case rejecting a party's late application to refer a dispute to arbitration, and whether the Scottish rules would be likely to produce the same result.
This is a version of an article which first appeared in the August 2015 Journal of the Law So
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Whether or not you make a Will, in Scotland it is almost impossible to disinherit your immediate family. Scottish law, unlike English law, entitles your children to claim either one third or one half of your moveable estate between them depending on whether your spouse has also survived you (m
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