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). ...
Legal Review 2024: Scotland’s legal firms continue to make indelible mark on the wider world
The lawyers and their legal associates who represent the interests of companies, firms and individuals in Scotland are among the best in the world. We should all be grateful for...
Legal Review 2024: Food for thought for hospitality industry under pressure
In many respects Scotland’s hospitality industry defines us a nation. We cannot escape from the fact that visitors and our own citizens enjoy what we do best. A warm welcome,...
Legal Review 2024: Did the Budget give a green light to clean energy action?
With the dust settling on Chancellor Rachel Reeves’s Budget, which she claimed would help deliver the government’s mission to make Britain a clean energy superpower, the energy sector has welcomed...
Legal Review 2024: Devils, advocates and the ongoing fight to defend the rule of law
Asked about the issues currently exercising the minds of the legal profession, Roddy Dunlop, Dean of the Faculty of Advocates, does not have to think long. “The unprecedented weight of...
Ellis joins Lawson at helm of Burness Paull
New managing partner to ‘build on success’ and engage with AI future Law firm Burness Paull has appointed Mark Ellis as its managing partner, working alongside Peter Lawson who will...
Hydrogen – a new asset class in renewable energy
One of the technologies projected to play a role in the race to net zero for the UK is hydrogen. Hydrogen presents the opportunity to be a cleaner fuel alternative...
The importance of philanthropy in the charity sector
Generosity and philanthropy are well-established and important parts of British society. However, real financial challenges exist for the charity sector as local and national governments, along with other funders, respond...
‘I’m filled with hope my daughter will never encounter a glass ceiling’
As a ‘Woman in Power’ – Partner, Solicitor Advocate and Head of Dispute Resolution at DWF in Scotland, a mother to two young children (aged two, and four months) and...