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Tram work disruption

I have a client who owns a small shop in central Edinburgh.  He is very dependant on customers being able to park outside as what he sells is heavy and bulky.  Traffic disruption

Old properties using modern technology (2)

I mentioned in my last entry a farming business's restoration of a disused cottage for holiday lets and how impressed I was at the way the building had been used.  The development

Old properties using modern technology

I recently went to walk round a client's farm after a period of change.  When I first knew the farm I was struck by a disused old stone cottage with spectacular views

If a proposal looks to good to be true it probably is

I was recently reading a report of an English woman who had been defrauded and sued the fraudster to get her money back. Lord Wright commented: "the world is left uncertain whether

Liferent trust

I was forced recently to consider what was meant in a liferent trust of a limited company by a ban on advancing capital to the liferentrix.  Did that mean that past profits, currently

Common Agricultural Policy

When the EEC was set up, the memory of wartime food shortages was acute.  Historically, too, there had often been famines not necessarily produced by climatic conditions.  The Common Agricultural Policy was intended

Brevity pt 1

I was brought up to believe that brevity was best.  In affairs of the heart I was taught to say little and write nothing.  At work I was taught to write as

Brevity pt 2

I am currently involved in a contract dispute that turns on one critical sentence.  It has a single adverb but two verbs. I am shortly to go to London to discuss its

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