Dru Nicholson
Solicitor
Miller Samuel Hill Brown Solicitors
Dru is a solicitor in our Commercial Property department. Dru studied for both his LLB (Honours) and Diploma in Professional Legal Practice at the University of Glasgow, before joining the firm in August 2021. Dru qualified as a solicitor in August 2023.
As we are all aware, the COVID-19 Pandemic triggered a dramatic shift away from traditional office-based working culture. Many had thought (and some had hoped) that once the Pandemic had subsided that "normality" would resume, with a large portion of the working population returning to offices and Town and City Centres being restored to their forme...
Business rates – or non-domestic rates as they are also known – are a tax levied on shops, bars, restaurants, offices and other commercial properties to pay towards Local Council services such as education, social care and waste management, to name a few. Liability for such ‘rates’ initially rests with the property owner, however it is usually passed on to the tenant under a commercial lease.
