Murray Beith Murray LLP is a leading Scottish private client law firm.
For 175 years we have specialised in meeting the legal, financial and administrative needs of individuals and families, family trusts, charities and private companies.
We have now had a chance to consider Part One, Part Two and Part Three of Murray Beith Murray’s “Self-isolation Schedule” blog and this final set of tasks should stand you in good stead and ensure your personal legal affairs are fully up-to-date:
Our recent blog considered how Wills and Powers of Attorney can be signed safely whilst adhering to social distancing rules.
Following on from Part One of Murray Beith Murray’s “Self-isolation Schedule” blog, we suggest the second task to help you have a legally productive lockdown:
Last night, Chancellor Rishi Sunak announced further measures 
to support self-employed taxpayers whose trading profits are less than £50,000 and whose main source of income (at least 50%) is derived from self-employment. The scheme will be known as the Coronavirus Self-employment Income Support Scheme, and is open to those who were trading in the last financial year, still trading now, and planning to continue doing so this year.
In what is an unprecedented time, it is important that you can continue to manage your personal legal affairs in the most efficient way possible and feel supported in doing so. Lawyers throughout Scotland – and indeed globally – are thinking fast about ways in which various deeds can be finalised whilst adhering to the social distancing rules amidst the Coronavirus pandemic.
