UK house price growth in June slowed to the lowest rate since August 2013. According to the Office for National Statistics (ONS), this slowdown was mainly affected by the falling prices in London, where properties dropped from 0.7% to negative 0.2%. The report shows an average house price growth of 3%, down from 3.5% in May - the lowest annual rate in five years.
Recently released data from HM Revenue & Customs shows inheritance tax (IHT) raised a record £5.2 billion in the 2017-18 financial year, up 8% from the previous tax year.
Criminals using the UK property market to launder money could face up to five years in prison under the newly proposed legislation.
What about the house? Who gets the car? In our new video, Complete Clarity outlines some of the most important questions that can arise – and indeed our family lawyers can help you to answer all of the main questions you may have when you are considering divorce, separation or dissolution of a civil partnership.
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On Saturday 9 December, the solicitors at Complete Clarity will don their winter woollies and bear the cold in Edinburgh’s Princes Street Gardens as part of the “worlds largest ever sleepout event” to raise money for Scottish homelessness.
Founder and Director of Complete Clarity, Billy Smith, is The Times’s Lawyer of the Week. Read the full article and interview here.
Road crash experts have warned of the potential dangers that Glasgow’s new 20mph zone could have for pedestrians and in particular, children involved in road traffic accidents.
Glasgow and Edinburgh are the main driving force behind a surge in the Scottish property market according to the latest study on the value of Scottish property.
MSPs have been warned by the Scottish Association of Landlords (SAL) that an additional charge in regards to buy-to-let properties and second homes could deter investment in Scotland and affect first time buyers.
More than 290,000 was paid to teachers and lecturers who were injured on school property following accidents in the workplace last year.
A cycling charity in Glasgow has called for a detailed analysis of where road traffic accidents in the city take place to have the correct speed limit restrictions in place.
A Glasgow print and packaging company have been fined £40,000 after a worker's hand was severely injured following an incident with a machine he was using.
New data from the National Office for Statistics Official (ONS) shows that between June and August 2015, Scotland has outperformed the UK in terms of employment, youth employment and youth employment with rates sitting at 73.7%, 61.5% and 71.5% respectively.
Not so encouragingly, Scotland’s unemployment rate has increased.
Last year (2014/15), the Scottish Health Service had a 0.05% complaint rate, according to Information Services Division (ISD) Scotland – published at the end of September 2015.
Specifically, taking all hospital visits (including A&E visits) together with all GP, outpatient, dental and ophthalmic appointments into consideration, a total of 22,417 complaints were made by patients across Scotland.
Recent data from the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (APIL) confirms that the mesothelioma death rate across England is increasing.
The new research shows that in England, the average mesothelioma death date currently sits at 4.5 deaths for every 100,000 people. Between 2008-2012, the rate was 2.6, which indicates a significant rise since that period.
According to new research from the Law Society of Scotland, female solicitors are working from free as of today due to the gender pay gap in the legal profession.
With approximately 1.2 million workers in the United Kingdom thought to be suffering from a work-related illness in 2013-14, it’s perhaps no surprise that occupational health will be the main focus when the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH) holds its 40th annual National Safety Symposium (NSS) later this year.
Working alongside with, health and social care, education as well as environmental and waste management groups, IOSH have put together an excellent programme of speakers.
The Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH) has developed a training programme, which provides business leaders with the knowledge they require to appropriately mange health and safety within their respective enterprises.
Crucially, the training package is specifically designed for business leader who have limited spare time on their hands.
A recent study by Nuffield Health shows approximately three million UK employee/workers experience problems with back pain and are, either, unable to work or are on long-term sick leave as a result.
Additionally and worryingly, somewhere in the region of six million individuals working in the UK have back pain that is undiagnosed.
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