…the blog and website of Andy Wightman
Yesterday Scottish Secretary, Michael Moore published the Scotland Bill. What does it say about the future of Scotland’s public crown lands? First of all, it is worth remembering that the Calman Commission was nobbled by the Crown Estate Commission (CEC)
Continue readingAmidst all the press coverage of the student demonstration in London on Wednesday, one small question was niggling me as I watched the windows being smashed in Millbank Tower. Whose windows? Who owns Millbank Tower? As it happens, the same
Continue readingI don’t want to be a pedant but it is symptomatic of much political debate about land reform that the wrong things are said about some important matters which, if not corrected, serve only to confuse. In Iain Gray’s speech
Continue readingI am not one who usually goes in for some of the wailing and hand wringing about the evils of the landlords or how we wus robbed in the past. Scotland is already full of plenty people for whom this
Continue readingToday’s Herald [broke link May 2024] carries the first extract from my new book, The Poor Had No Lawyers and relates the tale of the Hill of Alyth common. For those interested in further background to my argument, I have
Continue readingI know two of the men pictured above and have nothing but respect for them as legal scholars. They have even been invited to the launch of my new book, The Poor had No Lawyers. But I do question the
Continue readingI follow The Firm – the online legal journal.This week they published a brilliant piece by Steven Raeburn [link broken May 2024] on the Lockerbie trial and its aftermath. Well worth a read.
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