Donald Trump’s Ego trip
My report on Donald Trump’s golf course is now published.
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The Poor Still Have No Lawyers
News reaches me today that a number of petitioners including Clydeport Operations Limited have lodged a Notice of Termination in the Greenock Telegraph on 21st April to seek the termination (under Section 20(1) of the Title Conditions (Scotland) Act 2003)
Continue readingPoor Had No Lawyers. Edinburgh Law Review
Edinburgh Law Review has just published a review by Professor George Gretton of my book, The Poor Had No Lawyers.
Continue readingLand Reform 2011-2016
OK, In 2007, I prepared a paper on proposals for land reform in the 3rd session of the Scottish Parliament. The SNP Government did nothing. Last month I wrote another paper for Scottish Community Alliance on the way ahead for
Continue readingScottish Green Party LVT I
UPDATE 9 April 2011 Actually, the error I identify below (over-estimate of LVT revenue by £123 million) doesn’t look like an error on further examination. The land values in my original report were from January 2009 (the Valuation Office) and
Continue readingCarluke Commonty
One of the parcels of common land that I have discovered in the course of unearthing the land we have lost is the Carluke commonty (yellow parcel in map above). I talk more about this on pg. 203 of The
Continue readingMarine Atlas
The Scottish government today published a fascinating Marine Atlas with much useful information and data on Scotland’s marine environment. The map above (larger version available here) shows the extent of Scotland’s territorial seas (12 mile limit) and continental shelf (200
Continue readingSaif Gaddafi’s House (allegedly)
BBC reports today that squatters have taken over a house at 7 Winnington Close, LONDON N2 0UA, allegedly belonging to Saif Gaddaffi. In the interests of full disclosure here is the title and confirmation that the property is owned by
Continue readingLand Reform (Scotland) Act 2003
I watched Roseanna Cunningham giving evidence to Rural Affairs Committee on 2 March in response to research that the Committee had commissioned into the operation of the Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2003. She was clearly up for radical change to
Continue readingScotland Bill and the Crown Estate V
The Scottish Affairs Committee of the House of Commons has announced its intention to hold an Inquiry into the Crown Estate in Scotland. Further details have yet to be announced. Labour has tabled Amendments in House of Commons to Scotland
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