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Feb 4 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
THREAD In Wildcat Haven Enterprises CIC vs Andy Wightman, I have now been awarded expenses of £170,979.31. My legal costs to date are over £170k and will be close to £200k when this is all over. 1/5
The pursuer has 14 days to lodge any objections to the determination by the Auditor of the Court of Session (whose fee for this work is £9356). 2/5
There is a bond of caution of £110,000 in the Court of Session which will be released in due course. Once outstanding legal costs have been settled, I expect to offer refunds of around 45-50% to all donors. 3/5
The remaining £60k will have to be recovered from Wildcat Haven Enterprises CIC but their Sep 2020 balance sheet shows liabilities of £15,420 and so I have no expectation of recovering any of this money which is infuriating. 4/5 Image
The full story will be told once this is all settled. 5/5 END

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Feb 7
THREAD Delighted to have my first piece in the Land Detective series published in the @ScotNational This is a short thread with some further background. 1/6 thenational.scot/politics/19903…
First of all, the name (advice from Gaelic scholars welcome). I used Allt-na-Ruighe in my submitted piece but its been edited to the name it is commonly known as - Allt-na-Reigh. I believe the former is correct (burn of the slope or pasture land) but views are welcome! 2/6
The property has a long association with mountaineering in Glencoe moat prominently through it being the home and workshop of Hamish McInnes. This superlative image ©John Cleare (my copy from the book MacInnes) is a stunning portrait of HM in his workshop at Allt-na-Ruighe. 3/6 Image
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Jan 28
I am not bothered about flags but this is how Edinburgh Airport is owned. 1/5
The 372.8ha of land is owned by Edinburgh Airport Ltd., a Scottish registered company. Edinburgh Airport Ltd. is wholly owned by Green Bidco Ltd., a UK registered company. 2/5
Green Bidco Ltd. is wholly owned by Green Midco Ltd., a UK registered company. Green Midco Ltd. is wholly owned by Green Topco Ltd., a company registered in the Cayman islands. 3/5
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Jan 19
THREAD There is a lot of misinformation and confusion around the new regulations on fire and CO alarms that come into force 1 Feb 2022 and in relation to which there was a statement in Parliament today. 1/8
The regulations are here legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2019/8/art… and were subsequently amended to come into force in 2022 and not 2021. 2/8
The regulations add the interlinked fire and CO alarms to the list of criteria in s86(1) of the Housing (Scotland) Act 1987 that define whether a house meets the statutory tolerable standard. 3/8 legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1987/26/…
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Dec 21, 2021
THREAD ScotGov has made a real mess of trying to regulate short-term lets. Since launching the Homes First campaign over 4 years ago, it is clear what needs to be done in principle. There are 2 elements to regulation. The 1st is planning reform and the 2nd is licensing. 1/11
The first (planning) determines whether a property can be used as a short-term let and application will be assessed (as all planning applications are) against planning law and the policies of the planning authority. 2/11
The second is licensing. A licensing scheme ensures that operators are fit and proper persons, have the requisite insurance and safety checks. Crucially, a license application can demonstrate whether the applicant has planning consent (a critical check). 3/11
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Oct 6, 2021
Can I attempt to give a practical example of what today’s Supreme Court ruling means. Both Bills incorporate international treaties and provide judicial remedies where a Court finds that any provision of the UN or CoE treaties have been violated. 1/5
So, for example, if a local authority were to consider that a decision by Scottish Ministers violated an Article of the European Charter, it could launch a judicial review of that decision. 2/5
As passed, the Bill provides that courts could find in favour of the authority & issue a declaration of incompatibility. This could be made under the Bill as passed provided that the matter complained of is a devolved matter (irrespective of whether a UK or a SP statute) 3/5
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Oct 6, 2021
Disappointed but not surprised by the Supreme Court ruling on my European Charter of Local Self-Government (Incorporation) (Scotland Bill. 1/7 supremecourt.uk/cases/uksc-202…
The question before the court was not about the merits of the Bill but about whether its provisions modifed s28(7) of the Scotland Act 1998 and on the proper application of s 101(2) of the Scotland Act 1998. 2/7
In short the Bill provided for limits to be placed on existing legislation where it breached the European Charter. The limits would only apply to devolved matters but (importantly) would apply to UK laws on devolved matters 3/7
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