Crofting Law Lectures, Articles & Submissions
Brian Inkster regularly gives lectures, writes articles and provides submissions on various aspects of crofting law. These include:-
Village of Hamnavoe
Crofting Law Group Conference
Shetland: 7 September 2001
Wind Farm Development and Crofting:
The Case for a Section 5(3) Agreement
Prepared for a presentation to a Wind Farm Developer
Glasgow: 20 January 2003
Responses to the Draft Crofting Reform (Scotland) Bill
Submitted to the Land Use and Rural Policy Division
of the Scottish Executive
Glasgow: 13 June 2005
Resumption Clauses in Missives: a Landlord's perspective
WS Society Conference in association with the Crofting Law Group
Inverness: 10 May 2007
Crofting Reform etc. Act 2007
RICS Scotland Rural Mid-session Conference
Dunkeld: 24 April 2008
Drafting Crofting Clauses in Wind Farm Leases
and the Section 19A Application/Intimation
WS Society Conference in association with the Crofting Law Group
Inverness: 30 May 2008
under the Crofting Reform etc. Act 2007
WWW: 17 November 2008
University of Strathclyde: The Law School - LLB Property Law
Glasgow: 23 & 26 February 2009
WS Society Conference in association with the Crofting Law Group
Edinburgh: 12 June 2009
Published in the Crofting Law Group Newsletter: November 2009
Blog Post for The Firm Online
Inverness: 10 December 2009
Blog Post for The Firm Online
Stornoway: 27 January 2009
Blog Post for The Firm Online
Inverness: 10 December 2009
Submitted to the Scottish Parliament's Rural Affairs
and Environment Committee
Glasgow: 3 February 2010
Blog Post for The Firm Online
Glasgow: 31 May 2010
WS Society in association with the Crofting Law Group
Fort William: 3 September 2010
Blog Post for The Firm Online
Fort William: 10 September 2010
Law Society of Scotland - Update
Glasgow: 21 October 2010
Crofting Law and the Crofting Reform (Scotland) Act 2010
The Annual Rural Law Conference
Central Law Training
Edinburgh: 31 May 2011
Article for Journal of the Law Society of Scotland
Edinburgh: 20 June 2011
Crofting Law Alert - one week to conclude missives
Published in the Journal of the Law Society of Scotland Online (Crofting conveyancing alert ahead of new Act), the Firm Online (Crofting missive deadline warning) and Scottish Legal News (Crofting Lawyer warns of missives deadline)
Glasgow: 23 September 2011
What the Crofting Reform (Scotland) Act 2010 means to crofters
Article for Island News & Advertiser
Western Isles: April 2012
Who shares in the common grazings?
Article for Journal of the Law Society of Scotland
Edinburgh: 18 June 2012
No Ordinary Court - 100 Years of the Scottish Land Court
Book review for Journal of the Law Society of Scotland
Edinburgh: 13 August 2012
Crofting Register Application Forms Consultation
Response on behalf of Scottish Land & Estates
Edinburgh: 16 August 2012
Common Grazings, Resumption, Wind farming and the Crofting Register
Inksters Pop-up law Seminar
Hosta Hall, North Uist: 4 September 2012
The Dark Island Hotel, Benbecula: 5 September 2012
The Crofting Register
Views from a Solicitor (Pecha Kucha style)
Crofting Law Conference
WS Society in association with the Crofting Law Group
Portree, Isle of Skye: 21 September 2012
New duties on grazing committees to report on the condition of crofts
Article for Island News & Advertiser
Western Isles: October 2012
Gaps in the Register
Letter in Journal of the Law Society of Scotland
Edinburgh: 9 December 2012
Land Reform Review Group Consultation
Response
Glasgow: 11 January 2013
Common grazing shares – where are we now?
Article for Journal of the Law Society of Scotland
Edinburgh: 21 January 2013
The New Crofting Register
Article for Island News & Advertiser
Western Isles: February 2013
Crofting Register: missing the point
Letter in Journal of the Law Society of Scotland
Edinburgh: 11 February 2013
Alternative opinion on owner-occupier crofters' right to apply for a decrofting direction
Legal Opinion published at inksters.com and reported on widely in the national, local and legal press
Glasgow: 27 February 2013
When (if ever) is an owner-occupied croft vacant?
Legal Opinion published at inksters.com and reported on widely in the national, local and legal press
Glasgow: 4 March 2013
Inaction over decrofting debacle - what now for crofters?
Article published at inksters.com and reported on widely in the national, local and legal press
Glasgow: 8 March 2013
Decrofting debate
Discussion on Good Evening Shetland: BBC Radio Shetland
Shetland: 13 March 2013