Financial planning – why do you need it?

Did you know that the famous billionaire investor, Warren Buffet, bought his first stock when he was eleven years old? And that he has said that he regrets that he did not start investing earlier. An extreme example I know, but an early start and small changes to how you…

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Venue recommendations for Christmas event

By Emma Little, Founder and CEO of ExecSpace Planning a Christmas event is no easy feat, and choosing the perfect venue could very well be the single most important detail of the whole process. To help with gaining the most value and return on investment from your meetings and events…

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An MoT test for your building. How Energy Performance Certificates can still prove their worth after 10 years

By Mark O’Neill Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose. The more things change, the more they remain the same. It is now 10 years since Energy Performance Certificates were introduced for commercial property in Scotland and Non-domestic energy assessors are still out on the ground doing missionary work. While EPCs, which benchmark a…

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8 functions of the FTT that can help Tenants and Landlords

Since December 2017, the First Tier Tribunal Housing and Property Chamber (‘the FTT’) in Scotland has had exclusive jurisdiction to deal with applications made in relation to residential tenancies. Simultaneously, a new type of tenancy was created – the private residential tenancy. Private residential tenancies replace both short assured and…

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Intelligent Mobile – Messing with reality

Google is rolling out a tool for Android users that enables them to superimpose realistic-looking and sounding computer generated images of bears, sharks, penguins, cheetahs, snakes – you name it – on to the real world as viewed through the phone’s camera. You may think this is just another augmented…

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Could we be facing yet another state pension age rise?

According to a new report from a Conservative supporting think tank, the state pension age should rise to 75 within the next 16 years.  Such a rise in state pension age would help boost the British economy, according to the Centre for Social Justice (CSJ), who is proposing the increase.…

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Inheritance Tax reform on the cards?

Inheritance Tax reform on the cards? By Kirsten McKinnon, solicitor in the private client team at Shepherd and Wedderburn LLP On 5 July 2019, the Office for Tax Simplification (OTS) published its second report from its review of Inheritance Tax, outlining a number of recommendations to make “substantive aspects of…

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Venue Finding Agencies need to strike a balance between Global and Local to deliver the best value for their customers…says Emma Little, CEO of ExecSpace

By Emma Little, Founder and CEO of ExecSpace It will come as no surprise to event planners that the power of face to face is critical to great business and that meetings and events are the best way to facilitate this, however, there is a long chain of actions that…

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‘Non-traditional’ trade marks

On 14 January 2019 the legislative framework of intellectual property law in the UK was updated, following an update to the law at EU level. This provided for the removal of the requirement for trade marks to have ‘graphical representation’, typically either a word or a logo. This may seem…

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Joining the dots: Getting to grips with Twenty-first Century Crime

In today’s connected world, crime is going digital. CGI is working with the UK’s police forces to help them combat an increasingly complex challenge. Disruption is a fact of modern business life: technology continually re-writes the rules for how companies create value and compete. The digital revolution has transformed the…

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