Micro muses
- Any of my Renfrewshire homies fancy doing the Linwood parkrun on Saturday morning? 2 hours ago
- RT @_JamieMcIntyre: Sadly reflective of general lack of Gaelic knowledge amongst wider population - should never have got as far as this wi… 2 hours ago
- RT @Dr_PhilippaW: Ah, but they weren't SNP MPs! It is always #SNPBaad only need to look at response to #BabyBox twitter.com/aitken_marc/st… 3 hours ago
- RT @ShonaMurrayNT: Finally @Telegraph has gone too far with its propaganda. Not even the willing could believe a headline as far-fetched as… 11 hours ago
- RT @Rachael_Swindon: It's really no surprise there's so many misconceptions about benefits when you get a whole night of poverty being used… 12 hours ago
Monthly Archives: December 2012
Ownership, Land and Fitba
Imagine the scene. You are in a café. You have bought a drink. Your friend suggests you should not drink it. Not because there is anything wrong with it, but because he is a fan of the drink. Your friend, … Continue reading
Posted in Company Law, Fitba, Land Reform, Property
Tagged Community Right to Buy, crofting community right to buy, fitba, Land Reform, Scots law
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The legal status of “sustainable development” and “public interest”
Some blogs essentially write themselves, albeit with the aid of a bit of copy & paste. This is such a blog. Yesterday, I blogged on the rather important Court of Session case of Pairc Crofters Limited and Pairc Renewables Limited … Continue reading
Ruaig an Fhèidh and A1P1 revisited
“The Deer Drive”, to give the English form of the Gaelic contained in this blog’s title, was a nineteenth century event at Pairc on the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides. Landless and impoverished Gaels were moved to take … Continue reading
Posted in Devolution, ECHR, Land Reform, Property
Tagged Community Right to Buy, crofting community right to buy, ECHR, Land Reform, Scots law
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Boycotts and a director’s duty to promote the success of a company
I have been blogging since August. I have been writing for longer than that. I have been following football for even longer than that. With a little trepidation, I am about to blog about a football issue, arguably the fitba … Continue reading
Access to Land: The Fisherman’s Blues
You might have missed the press-release, but today I subtly changed my Twitter bio. If you are not so bio-curious (credit to the apparently retired @GarethAveyard for that one) to have caught it, my bio now declares that I am … Continue reading
Posted in Land Reform, Property
Tagged Access, Human Rights, Land Reform, Scotland, Scots law
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A Rush and a Push and the Land is Ours
Followers of my Twitter account will be aware that I tweet about music approximately once a day. I am no music aficionado, but I certainly like my music and can hack my way through a few tunes on a few … Continue reading
