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On 14 August 2026, Emily Johns was appointed as a member of the Cairngorms National Park Authority to serve a four year term. The appointment was made under the relevant legislation governing Ministerial appointments in order to fill a vacancy
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The image above appeared on the front cover of the Sunday National on 16 August 2026. The story highlighted the ongoing charges faced by the Isle of Skye Ferry CIC, the community company that operates the Glenelg – Kylerhea ferry
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The first CLAN (Community Land Academic Network) conference took place at UHI in Perth on 16-17 June 2026. The lead organiser was Dr Bobby Macaulay from UHI Centre for Mountain Studies and co-ordinator of the CLAN network of researchers. You
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The Scottish Parliament has made some welcome changes to its procedures to increase transparency and accountability but, unfortunately, they do not appear to be making much of a difference. The first alarm bells rung for me when the Parliamentary Bureau
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Following recent posts about my attempts to secure prosecutions for those failing to register the controlling interest in land, I am pleased to see that the Ferret has published an important analysis of the Register of Controlled Persons in Land.
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Readars may be aware that I run the Who Owns Scotland website. It is funded by subscriptions and so if you do not already subscribe, I can thoroughly recommend it. Every month I check records from one year past and
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Regular readers of this blog will be aware of the efforts that Alan Brown and myself have made to ensure that people who flout transparency rules are held accountable before the law. You can read the key blogs here, here,
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The Register of Persons Holding a Controlled Interest in Land was established under Part 3 of the Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2016 to provide greater transparency on who owns land. It requires partnerships, trusts, unincorporated bodies and overseas entities to
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Following on from Alan Brown’s guest blog on who really owns Craiganour Estate, I now dig into who is really behind North Glen Estates Ltd., the other entity currently being investigated by the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service for
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This Guest blog from Alan Brown is the first of two which question whether the two transparency regimes operating in Scotland – the Register of Persons Holding a Controlled Interest in Land (RCI) and the Register of Overseas Entities (ROE)
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