In March 2014, Scotland Excel, a body formed by agreement between all 32 local authorities in Scotland, advertised a procurement exercise in relation to the supply of street lighting materials.

Following on from our update of last autumn, The UK Ministry of Justice published its revised final guidance last week on the UK Bribery Act 2010, which is now scheduled to come in to force on 1 July 2011.

Good charities need good people. Those people are often volunteers, trustees, employees, advisers, and everyone in between. But what rights, if any, do they have?

The final instalment of our series of updates on the (now passed) Courts Reform (Scotland) Bill has finally arrived. This update will consider the new procedures for appeals to the Inner House of the Court of Session and to the Supreme Court.

Currently, cases for values up to £3,000 must be raised under the Small Claims procedure, and cases for values between £3,001 and £5,000 must be raised under the Summary Cause procedure.

Currently a person who thinks they might have a discrimination claim under the Equality Act 2010 may submit written questions to the potential respondent to their claim (e.g. their employer).

Following its review of annual accounts submitted by 90 charities, OSCR has today highlighted one of its key findings relates to that of the Trustees' Annual Report, with many failing to meet the legal requirements.

On 23 March 2004 the European Commission adopted a finding that Microsoft had infringed EU competition rules by "abusing its dominant position in the software market, causing a huge damage both on competitors and consumers" in connection with Microsoft's refusal to supply competitors with 'interoperability information' and the typing of Windows Media Player with the Windows PC operating system.

The full report of the landmark decision laid down by the EAT in Bear v Fulton (and the other conjoined cases) has now been published and, in summary, the main findings are: ..

The European Commission ('the Commission') has launched a public consultation on the EU Directive on the Re-Use of Public Sector Information ('PSI Directive') - implemented in the UK by the PSI Regulations 2005.

The European Commission announced yesterday that it has fined 11 airlines a total of €800 million for operating a global cartel in relation to air cargo prices.

The 2nd July 2012 marked the first anniversary of the Bribery Act coming into force.

Recent case law has made many an employer wary of making awards of nil bonus to leavers even when the contract gives them apparent discretion to do so.

We currently await the European Court of Justice's ruling in the Heyday case in which Heyday, an organisation created by and closely associated with Age Concern, is challenging the legality of the Age Regulations.

2015 was a busy year in the world of share schemes and employee share ownership arrangements.

The final Shared Parental Leave Regulations were published in July, meaning employers can now go ahead and draft their Shared Parental Leave policies.

Here is a quick reminder of the key employment law changes coming into effect today:

Yesterday, the Scottish Government published its Statutory Guidance on the Selection of Tenderers and the Award of Contracts.

The judgement takes a pleasantly entertaining canter through use of the hypothetical "reasonable man" test across a number of areas of law.

The recent case of Hubbard v Bank of Scotland Plc (t/a Birmingham Midshires) [2014] EWCA Civ 648 has provided valuation surveyors with some welcome clarification and reassurance regarding their scope of duty of care when providing a mortgage valuation.