Jan 30, 2013 | Bullet Point Update
Towards the end of last year Alex Salmond said that oil-rich countries like Scotland have a moral obligation to invest in green energy: “It’s not just an economic opportunity, it’s a moral imperative that hydrocarbon countries lead the way in renewable energy...
Dec 11, 2012 | Bullet Point Update
Being the month of Christmas there is, even in legal circles, an inclination to merriment. But Dr Johnson has warned that “nothing is more hopeless than a scheme of merriment”. Taking heed of that warning this Bullet Point Update does not aspire (even) to read like a...
Nov 13, 2012 | Bullet Point Update
Robert Frost’s poem Mending Wall tells of two neighbours’ annual and painstaking task of mending the wall between their orchard properties. “Good fences make good neighbours” intones one of them – as his father did before him. The other questions that...
Oct 22, 2012 | Bullet Point Update
This month saw the “Edinburgh Agreement” signed by Alex Salmond and David Cameron paving the way for the referendum on an independent Scotland. This Note does not pursue any of the interesting political aspects of that. But the signing of the agreement prompts a brief...
Sep 21, 2012 | Bullet Point Update
LONG LEASES (SCOTLAND) ACT 2012 Generally, one tends to think of leases as having a term of six months or perhaps a year or two for residential leases; five or fifteen years for modern agricultural leases; and, say, 25 years for commercial leases. Nevertheless,...
Aug 15, 2012 | Bullet Point Update
Usually residential tenancies work well. But sometimes they don’t. When they don’t the landlord may end up seeking to remove (in this Note “evict”) the tenant from the property. That involves a number of hoops which must be jumped through; and jumped through in the...
