Tag Archives: Land Reform
Land Reform (Scotland) Bill [number 3] introduced to Holyrood
Let’s go ’round again, Maybe we’ll turn back the hands of time, Let’s go ’round again, One more time. Average White Band Were AWB thinking about land reform in Scotland when they dropped that banger? Almost certainly not. Anyway, here … Continue reading
An analysis of case law under Part 2 of the Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2003: an unfortunate trend for community bodies?
Earlier this year, Community Land Scotland contacted me to do a wee bit of work for them. They had formed a perception that communities making use of the community right to buy found in Part 2 of the Land Reform … Continue reading
Consultation on the KLTR’s new Ownerless Property Transfer Scheme
The King’s and Lord Treasurer’s Remembrancer – the Crown’s representative for dealing with ownerless property in Scotland – has been consulting for the past few months on a new Ownerless Property Transfer Scheme. The deadline for the consultation is tomorrow. … Continue reading
2022 Land Rights and Responsibilities Statement
The Scottish Government has just published its updated Land Rights and Responsibilities Statement (LRRS). This comes five years on from the original Land Rights and Responsibilities Statement, which itself followed on from the Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2016. First out … Continue reading
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Land Reform in a Net Zero Nation; or the road to next Land Reform (Scotland) Bill
On 4 July 2022, the Scottish Government launched a[nother] consultation about land reform in Scotland. A related news release begins thus: Scotland has a proud history of land reform going back to the early days of devolution. We are committed … Continue reading
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Tagged Agricultural Holdings, Community Right to Buy, ECHR, Human Rights, land law, Land Reform, land reform bill, Land Reform in a Net Zero Nation, Land Reform in Scotland, Land Rights and Responsibilities Statement, landlord and tenant, Large-scale landholdings, Scots law
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Land and human rights – a post for the Scottish Land Commission
I’ve written a blog post for the Scottish Land Commission, in connection with its new Land and Human Rights Advisory Forum (detailed in this earlier blog post). This basedrone is simply a signpost to the Commission’s website: I’ll invite you … Continue reading
Land and Human Rights Advisory Forum
This afternoon, I had an absolutely smashing chat about land reform and human rights with some great people. Entirely relatedly, the first meeting of a Scottish Land Commission and University of Strathclyde Law School initiative took place this afternoon. A … Continue reading
New Scottish Land Fund Committee
A bit of news. The membership of the new committee of the Scottish Land Fund has recently been announced, as detailed on the blog of the National Lottery Community Fund Scotland. Someone called Malcolm Combe is one of the seven … Continue reading
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Tagged Community, Land Reform, Scottish Land Fund, Scottish Land Fund Committee
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The Scottish Books Long Weekend: “What Next for Scotland at Home and Abroad? Talking Politics with Ruth Wishart and Guests”
Hello, everyone. I used to blog a bit. It seems I’ve hit a bit of a fallow period. Sorry about that (or, alternatively, please enjoy the respite). Anyway, here’s a quick and opportunistic return to blogging to say nothing more … Continue reading
Landscapes Podcast
Eleven months into lockdown, it’s finally happened: I started podcasting. Or rather, the resourceful, smart and all-round-good-guy Adam Calo (a postdoctoral researcher at the James Hutton Institute in Aberdeen) started podcasting. He decided I would make a decent guest for the inaugural … Continue reading
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