About 200 windfarm and other planning cases at Committee, in writing, on appeal to Inspectors and Reporters, and on Appeal and Judicial Review in Scotland, Cumbria, Northumberland, East Yorkshire, North Wales, West Wales, and Norfolk.
Avich & Kilchrenan Community Council – appearance before UN Economic Committee for Europe’s Åarhus Convention Compliance Committee, Geneva, Switzerland
Beauly to Denny OHL Inquiry – major power line inquiry from Beauly (Inverness-shire) to Denny (Stirlingshire)
Bilfinger Berger Siemens CAF Joint Venture - training for Edinburgh Trams Mediation
Coastal Regeneration Alliance – Community Right to Buy under Land Reform (S) Act 2003 – wrongful refusal to register lawful interest by Scottish Ministers
Cotton Farm windfarm, Huntingdon, - noise statutory nuisance claim
David Bines v CNES – [2010] Otter control at a fish farm
Gloag v Perth and Kinross Council and The Ramblers Association – right to roam – right to erect a fence with out planning permission
Gordon & Macphail v The Moray Council – Land Tribunal Valuation dispute for loss of use of a spring feeding a malt whisky distillery
Gordon's Trustees – landlord’s resistance to an informally created agricultural tenancy. Granton Central Dev Co v City of Edinburgh [2020] - successful defence of Appeal against Planning Decision
Grantown on Spey Caravan Park [2015] – Certificate of Lawful Use and Development against Planning Authority; success and costs awarded
HMA v Hyslop – farmer carrying shotgun and allegedly threatening ‘lampers’ on his own ground – unanimous acquittal
HMA v Reid – shaken baby death
ICE v Addison – professional body wrongfully expelling Chartered Engineer
Laird v Scottish Borders Council – Planning consent invalidated for ambiguity
Lidl Stores – Nine public inquiries for new stores
Macaskill Stornoway [2009] Lorry noise nuisance case
Nairn v Fife Council [2008] Listed Buildings and ransom strip at large Country House
Newton Mearns Residents Association [2014] CSOH – flooding issues, Protective Expenses Order
Not Coul - Public Inquiry [2018] into a proposal for an 18 hole golf course on an SSSI, SPA etc. Successful against developer team.
Packard v Scottish Ministers [2012] – judicial review of wind farm Planning decision – bias and pre-determination by Scottish Ministers alleged
Parry v Highland Council – Contested certificate of lawful use for a fish farm
Pentland-Clark v Maclehose and Others – [2013] 10 year long Will dispute
Pirie and another v NEC – unlawful contract termination of TV distributor’s agreements
Q-Park – Access through designated bridge Airspace valuation
RIAS v Mays – unlawful expulsion of architect from Membership of professional body – compensation
S and others – prolonged family dispute among four brothers following sale of a waste recovery business
Scott v McTear – auction house denying liability for compensation after burglary
TMSL v Rannoch Club – unlawful contract termination – compensation
Scottish Parliament Inquiry – 2004 – Inquiry into overspend on the Scottish Parliament Building
Trump International v Scottish Ministers UKSC [2015] Judicial Review of decision about the correct interpretation of a term in Electricity Act 1989 - to Supreme Court
William Grant & Sons, Distillers [2013] – judicial review of Planning Decision to consent a windfarm
Wilson and Another v Morton Fraser – Solicitors negligence claim, contested valuation of loss of profit