Legal Review 2024: Law Society of Scotland lends strong voice on fundamental values
This year was a landmark for the Law Society of Scotland, which celebrated its 75th anniversary as the professional governing body for Scottish solicitors. Both the profession and the society...
Challenge of navigating new IHT landscape
We might have expected that five months, one consultation document and thousands of tractors driven through London later, the dust might have started to settle. The challenge of navigating new...
Law firms Wright, Johnston & Mackenzie and Davidson Chalmers Stewart complete merger
Two of Scotland’s best known law firms have completed their deal to creating a 200-strong business. The firm says the merger will “enhance provision for clients and strengthen several business...
Smaller M&A deals now in scope of UK merger control rules
The thresholds for UK merger control have changed, putting some smaller M&A deals beyond the reach of the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) while also giving it greater scope to...
Women in Scotland’s Legal World: 25 Names to Watch in 2025
Women have prospered and succeeded in Scotland’s legal world. Their levels of attainment within the legal profession easily outstrip professional achievement in most other areas of commerce and business. According...
Legal Review 2024: Inheritance tax makeover in 2025
The Chancellor’s Autumn Budget calls time on three decades of a relatively benign inheritance tax treatment of wealth comprised in trading business. Since 1996, 100 per cent business property relief...
Legal Review 2024: Employment reform and the law of unintended consequences
Recent government policy announcements, from Rachel Reeves’s maiden Budget speech as the UK’s first female Chancellor of the Exchequer to Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner’s introduction of legislation for a...
Legal Review 2024: Highlights of a Transformative Year
This past year has been transformative for Wright, Johnston & Mackenzie LLP, particularly since we welcomed Irwin Mitchell Scotland into our offices following our successful combination earlier this year. Thirteen...
Legal Review 2024: UK Budget delivers generational change in taxes for savers
In the hunt for new sources of tax revenue, the Chancellor, Rachel Reeves, has sent wealth managers, financial planning firms and client advisers back to the drawing board to find...
Legal Review 2024: Facing the challenge of IHT changes
For decades, agricultural property relief (APR) and business property relief (BPR) have enabled farmers and other businessowners to pass their business to the next generation without any inheritance tax (IHT). ...