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CHAPTER TWO THE TWO TYPES OF AGRICULTURAL TENANCIES There are two main Acts of Parliament which apply to tenanted agricultural land. The statutes are mutually exclusive. Any individual piece of tenanted land is held under the terms of one, or the other. It cannot be held under both. The earliest [...] -
CHAPTER ONE WHAT DOES SECTION 106 PERMIT? The answer to this question involves going back to basics and looking at the provisions of section 106 itself. Section 106 (1) (a) provides as follows; “Any person interested in land in the area of a local planning authority may, by agreement or [...] -
CHAPTER ONE CROFTING LAW HISTORY AND LEGISLATION Highland Clearances and the Crofters’ War Crofting Law came about as a result of the Highland Clearances that were carried out during the 1800s. Landowners cleared tenants from their land, to make way for large scale sheep farms and deer forests, sometimes with [...] -
CHAPTER TWO HISTORY Contrary to what most people believe Henry VIII’s divorces from Catherine of Aragon and Anne of Cleves did not open a flood gate of divorce for the rest of society in this jurisdiction. Indeed, it was only possible to obtain a divorce by way of a private [...] -
CHAPTER ONE FCA AUTHORISATION AND APPROVAL 1.1 The General Prohibition Businesses wishing to conduct regulated activities in the UK must take heed of the so-called “general prohibition”, which is laid down in FSMA s. 19(1) and underpins the UK’s financial regulatory system: The general prohibition “No person may carry on [...]