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2018

• BTO's 10th year at The Fringe focuses on first time entertainment and publishing contracts
• Clare Bone Joins The Legal 500’s Hall of Fame
• BTO Trainee Solicitor wins Law Society Innovation Cup
• One month on from GDPR, RGDP LLP, a new venture offering “Really Good Data Protection” services is launched
• BTO announces partner changes
• BTO continues to raise funds for charity Brightest Star
• BTO supports Brewin Dolphin Ochil Hills Sportive in aid of Brightest Star
• Charity exhibition supports Scottish artists and people affected by dementia
• New Regulations Protecting NHS Whistleblowers are coming into force
• Taxation of Termination Payments – All Change
• BTO announces new partner promotion
• Increase in minimum wage rates
• BTO Supports International Women’s Day
• APUC tender win for BTO
• April 2018 increases to Statutory Pay
• BTO Announces Ten Senior Promotions
• BTO’s Regulatory & Criminal Defence Team Celebrates Success
• EU Procurement Thresholds – from 1 January 2018

2017

• BTO named headline sponsor of Edinburgh Art Fair
• TUC warns that ending gender pay gap in UK could be “decades” away
• Government to Introduce State-Backed Indemnity Scheme for GPs in England
• BTO delivers record financial performance in first year as LLP
• BTO Solicitors LLP Awards Prize for Top Student on Commercial Contracts Diploma Course
• Great Scottish Run - Rain did not stop the BTO teams
• BTO's Macmillan Coffee Morning
• Personal injury compensation reforms announced
• BTO announces promotion and new appointments
• Opportunity to tutor school pupils as mock court competition gets underway
• BTO calls for Scotland’s construction industry to further improve building standards compliance
• Guidance to help employer prevent illegal working
• Employment Tribunal fees
• Edinburgh Fringe – Don’t let cyber crooks have the last laugh
• European Union (Withdrawal) Bill
• Bridges to Wonder
• Fife Show
• Scottish Orienteering Urban League
• The Association of British Insurers Responds to the Personal Injury Discount Rate Consultation
• Modern slavery victims need more support
• Snap General Election freezes Discount Rate Consultation Discussions
• Detailed guidance on auto-enrolment
• BTO announces senior promotions across the firm
• Increases to Statutory Payments from 1 April 2017
• Mackrell International Ranked in Chambers UK Guide as Leading Global Network for Fifth Consecutive Year
• Justifying dismissal and discrimination – Same outcomes?
• HMRC issue guidance on employment status
• Government consults on electronic balloting for industrial action
• Change of the personal injury discount rate
• New Tribunal Compensation Limits in force 6 April 2017
• Gender Pay Gap Reporting is Fast Approaching
• The Trade Union Act 2016 is coming into force on 1 March 2017
• BTO wins ground breaking case involving oppressive CCTV surveillance
• Government issues Employment Status Review
• BTO’s CSR Committee Announces New Charity for 2017
• Gender pay gap reporting – Some assistance

2016

• Best Results Yet for BTO in the Latest Legal 500
• “Setting aside” fraudulent personal injury settlements north of the border Hayward v Zurich Insurance Company
• Could the Fringe be a fraud fest for cyber crooks?
• Scottish Secure Tenancies after Right to Buy ends
• The continuing upward trend of Scottish fatal awards
• BTO's Advocacy Team Grows
• BTO Host Chinese Delegation to Share Health & Safety Knowledge
• BTO Sponsors ‘All the Wonderful Things’
• Office for National Statistics to consider classifying Housing Associations as public bodies
• New Seminar for Commercial Surveyors
• Price scoring – Getting it wrong?
• Three new partners and four new associates at BTO
• Pleural Plaques – another high award from the Court of Session
• 2016 Tenant Information Pack inaccurate and misleading
• Charity Regulation - Changes from 1 April 2016
• Budget 2016
• BTO’s Bowling Challenge – Mackrell International Social Event
• Modern Slavery Act 2015 – How does this affect our business?
• Procurement Reform in Scotland – Update, January 2016
• Summary Decree and the Use of Criminal Convictions in Civil Proceedings
• 2015 in Case Law

2015

• EU Procurement Thresholds – from 1 January 2016
• bto Associate Kirsteen Maclean’s New York Marathon for Yorkhill Children’s Charity
• Some Pre-Christmas (forum) shopping
• bto grows team with two new senior appointments
• More bad news for Buy to Let investors as George Osborne delivers his Autumn Statement
• The Scottish Sentencing Council
• What is required to postpone the start of the prescriptive clock in a post-ICL Plastics era?
• Edinburgh property team grows with double appointment
• Deliberate Acts & Dangerous Consequences
• North of the Border – Appeal Court re-affirms the law on secondary victims
• National Minimum Wage Rates Increase
• New Beginnings: A round-up of the changes under the Courts Reform (Scotland) Act 2014 taking effect from today
• Is Scotland Really a Safe Harbour for Personal Data?
• Do fake reviews and online customer rants ‘in-Fringe’ the law?
• New IoD Chair takes over Glasgow and the West at exciting time of growth
• BTO appointed as Fife Council data protection training provider
• Highest award made by any jury or judge for loss of society
• The Land Reform (Scotland) Bill 2015
• In with the new…Scottish Court Reform – What insurers need to know
• Early Closure of Renewables Obligation Confirmed
• bto’s Family Law Team Expands
• Rumoured early closure of RO
• bto’s “Magnificent Seven” Complete Challenging Charity Cycle
• Construction (Design & Management) Regulations 2015
• bto in World Leading Legal Network
• bto solicitors appoints consultant in Northern Ireland
• Happy 125th Birthday Forth Bridge
• Recovery of Medical Costs for Asbestos Diseases (Wales) Bill
• Sheriff Principal upholds decision to award tenant 3 x deposit (£2,250)
• Court Reform (Scotland) Act 2014 – The Timetable
• Two New Partners and a New Associate for bto solicitors
• The Recovery of Medical Costs for the Asbestos Diseases (Scotland) Bill
• Consultation published seeking to abolish s69 of the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013
• Updates Regarding Right to Buy Abolition