With the final stage of the Tour de France fast approaching you may be nervously anticipating who is going to take the yellow jersey! However, still fresh in many cycling enthusiasts' minds...

The minimum contributions that employers and staff are to pay into automatic enrolment workplace pensions are to increase from 6 April 2019 (this does not apply to defined benefit pension schemes).

Many of us presume that if we were no longer capable of looking after ourselves that our family would be able to step in and make decisions on our behalf.

My colleague, Scott Cochrane, blogged on this issue back in November of last year. He outlined how there can be a rush to Court to make a maintenance claim following the breakdown in a marriage; and why ...

At a recent Commons debate, Labour MP Tulip Siddiq highlighted the growing number of parents in the UK travelling abroad with children being ...

Real estate investment trusts (REITs) are tax efficient property investment vehicles. They are common in the commercial property investment market ...

The UK government has this week published the UK Anti-Corruption Strategy 2017 – 2022. Amongst other things, the government has renewed its commitment to introduce a public register ...

The UPC has taken a long time to get to this stage (over 25 years ) and had been set to go live later this year.

Further to our earlier posts the make up of the committee of UK Members of Parliament (MPs) who will review and scrutinise the draft Statutory Instrument (‘SI') ...

The Supreme Court has handed down its judgment in Gordon & Others v Campbell Riddell Breeze Paterson LLP, in which Brodies represents the successful Respondents.

Those who were at Brodies' Local Government conference last month might remember that one of the cases covered in our case round-up was Glasgow City Council v Scottish Legal Aid Board and PQ [2017] CSOH 155.

In this All Scotland Personal Injury Court case (Daly v Heeps and Another [2018] SC EDIN 01) Sheriff Braid found the claimant cyclist and the defender motorist equally to blame.

Sheriff McGowan's decision in the case of Dorota Tomczak v Nicholas Reid gives an indication as to how ASPIC will deal with cases that are litigated solely to resolve a dispute on costs.

On 26 February, the Scottish Government published the outcome of its consultation on Scottish Court Fees – that is, the fees which parties must pay to the courts to bring ...

When land acquired by compulsory purchase becomes surplus to requirements, the acquiring authority may be obliged to offer it back to the former owner.

BDW purchased land for a housing development from Bridgend County Borough Council (Bridgend).

1 December 2017 finally saw the introduction in Scotland of the new private residential tenancy (PRT) following the long-awaited coming into force of the Private Housing (Tenancies) (Scotland) Act 2016.

As we all start to get used to the summer weather that Scotland, and the rest of the UK is enjoying, leisure and hospitality operators want to move quickly to capitalise on the sunshine.

The news this week that the world's largest real estate private equity investor, Blackstone, has decided to invest in the UK affordable housing sector is potentially a game-changer ...

Scotland and r-UK remains far behind international trends in the provision of purpose built retirement housing of the type seen in the United States and Australasia ...