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A proliferation of Employment Tribunal claims arising from “no jab, no job” dismissals is of interest to employment lawyers north and south of the border. In 2021, the UK government issued regulations requiring staff working in Care Quality Commission-regulated facilities to be vaccinate
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A commercial judge has awarded a former sales representative for a company that sold testing kits a payment of over £245,000 for bonuses accrued over the early stages of the Covid-19 pandemic. An action was raised by Mast Group Ltd seeking declarator that its employee Patricia Chalmers was not
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On the 20th anniversary of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 (FOISA) receiving Royal Assent, organisations from across Scotland have voiced their support for legal reform and for the Campaign for Freedom of Information in Scotland’s draft bill to improve the law. The CFOIS Bill pr
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A former postal apprentice who was unable to consistently use disabled parking bays at his workplace has been awarded £2,700 in compensation by an employment tribunal. The claimant, Mr S Johnstone, also claimed that he had been subject to a number of discriminatory acts relating to his disabil
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Lawyers are predicting a surge in legal cases that take advantage of rules to offset the financial risk of litigation as businesses emerge from the pandemic. Litigation finance rules – which allow parties to a case to fund commercial disputes upfront while spreading the cost – came into
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Scotland’s freedom of information (FOI) commissioner has told the Scottish government to take urgent action to rectify “significant and systemic” failures in the FOI system. Daren Fitzhenry said he found “a number of areas where performance and practice fell short” desp
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McKee Campbell Morrison (MCM) has welcomed Michael Flett to the firm’s corporate team as an associate director. Mr Flett joins from Addleshaw Goddard where he specialised in corporate law and worked with companies spanning a variety of sectors in areas including mergers and acquisitions, IPOs,
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A man who drove a lorry while drunk on from Stracathro to Stonehaven on a dark November night has lost an appeal against his sentence in the Sheriff Appeal Court. Timothy Humphreys was disqualified from driving for 3 years and 7 months and sentenced to 6 months’ cumulo imprisonment after
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Annual house prices in Aberdeen city and its suburbs have risen by 1.4 per cent, according to the latest Aberdeen Housing Market report from the Aberdeen Solicitors’ Property Centre Limited (ASPC) and the University of Aberdeen, Business School, Centre for Real Estate Research. According to th
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Police Scotland is facing a shortage of senior officers after a spike in people applying to leave the single force. Retirement rates for this year are already 70 per cent higher than normal, according to the Scottish Police Federation, while litigation in England over pensions could prompt a surge i
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Partners at law firms in England and Wales saw their pay increase by nearly 40 per cent in the first full year of the pandemic, according to new figures. A survey conducted for the Law Society found that median net profits per equity partner increased by 39 per cent from £146,417 in 2020 to &p
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The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) is requiring the Department for Work and Pensions to improve its treatment of disabled benefit claimants. This is in response to serious concerns about failures to meet the needs of its customers with mental health impairments and learning disabilities
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Anderson Strathern has advised Crown Estate Scotland on all 17 of the recently announced ScotWind off-shore wind leasing agreements, a £700 million programme and the first offshore wind leasing round in over a decade, and the first award of projects since the management of offshore wind rights
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A couple who moved out of their rented property early by mutual agreement have successfully challenged a finding that they were due to pay £383 of rent arrears to his former landlord. Thomas and Anne Linden rented a property from respondent Alexander MacPherson from June 2018 to March 2021. Th
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Scotland has the highest prison population rate in the UK and one of the highest in Europe, a new report shows. The 47-nation Council of Europe has today published its Annual Penal Statistics for 2021, compiled by the University of Lausanne.
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