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Crofting, community, commons, and land use: development of common grazings, but on whose terms?
On 19 August, a crofting law case reached its conclusion at the Court of Session. The case (PDF) pitted some crofters against their crofting landlord. The clash related to similar but essentially rival plans for a renewable energy development on … Continue reading
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Tagged crofting, crofting community right to buy, land law, Land Reform
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Winds of change? Crofting, community and renewable energy development in the Hebrides
This is a blog (sign)post, directing to another blog post that has just been published over at the School of Law at the University of Aberdeen’s blog. Needless to say, I wrote yonder blog post. The legalities of it made … Continue reading
Some reflections on the “Land reform in Scotland: legal, historical and policy perspectives” #AbdnLand event
This is a blog post offering some personal reflections on the public lecture and conference held at the University of Aberdeen on 25 and 26 August 2016. This programme was probably the first big-ticket academic/practitioner get-together that “I” organised “myself”. … Continue reading
What is happening at Colstoun Mains? Land reform and agricultural holdings in microcosm
Martinmas is the latest of the four Scottish quarter days in the calendar year. It might not be a day or a date known to many – by statute it falls on 28 November – but those involved in Scots … Continue reading
Land Reform Review Group Interim Report
Four months after the ultimate deadline for responses to the Call for Evidence of the Land Reform Review Group (LRRG), the first tangible output of the LRRG has emerged in the form of an Interim Report published on 20 May 2013. Also … Continue reading
Labour towards land reform
The Scottish Labour Conference 2013, and particularly Johann Lamont MSP’s speech thereat, attracted a fair amount of coverage in the Twittersphere, blogosphere and the press. Here is my tuppence worth on one very specific aspect. Lamont’s speech was critiqued in … Continue reading
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Tagged Community, crofting community right to buy, ECHR, Human Rights, Land Reform, Scots law
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Giving away an island: Part 4 (and other land reform stories)
That Scottish land question, eh? No-one seems to be able to answer it once and for all. In fact, what was the question again? Anyway, leaving that [huge] question to one side, you may recall I blogged about giving away … Continue reading
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Tagged Community, crofting community right to buy, Land Reform, Scots law
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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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