Rural legal insights from Scotland. Tweets by @MalcolmCombe.
Scotland, United Kingdom
Joined November 2011
- Tweets4.6K
- Following294
- Followers707
- Likes145
Rural Law retweeted
Blog plug: a post about responsible access and responsible management, with particular reference to deer stalking at North Chesthill Estate and related news coverage. 🦌🥾🧗
basedrones.wordpress.com/202…
Rural Law retweeted
The Scottish Government recently aired its proposals for reforming community rights to buy in Scotland. Here's my blog post that seeks to distil and comment on the various recommendations (and indeed non-recommendations). basedrones.wordpress.com/202…
Rural Law retweeted
The Crofting and Scottish Land Court Bill has been passed unanimously by MSPs at Stage 3:
✅- 119
❌- 0
🟣- o
You can find out more about the Bill at:
ow.ly/yvq650YyjxG
Rural Law retweeted
A blog post, about the first provisions of the newest Land Reform Act to be brought into force, on Land Commissioner functions and hutting (with a P.S. about the Natural Environment (Scotland) Act 2026). basedrones.wordpress.com/202…
Rural Law retweeted
An update about the first in-person meeting of the European Islands Policy Network that took place in Finland in September 2025, quoting our Professor Francesco Sindico.
strath.ac.uk/humanities/laws…
Rural Law retweeted
If you weren't up at 7am this fine Saturday, which is totally fair enough by the way, you would have missed me chatting about all things public access to land on BBC Radio Scotland's Out of Doors. My bit starts 52 minutes 20 seconds into the programme bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002kf…
Rural Law retweeted
EVENT on 15 October at @unistrathclyde with Professor Christopher Whatley. He will discuss his recent book, Harvie’s Dyke: The People, their Liberty and the Clyde, which centres on a 19th century public access to land dispute strath.ac.uk/humanities/laws…
Rural Affairs and Islands Committee’s Stage 1 report on the Natural Environment (Scotland) Bill has now been published and is available online
digitalpublications.parliame…
Rural Law retweeted
NEWS: Our @MalcolmCombe was interviewed for the Croftwork podcast. In the most recent episode, he chats about crofting law and land reform.
strath.ac.uk/humanities/laws…
Rural Law retweeted
I was recently interviewed by the Croftwork podcast team, on matters crofting law and land reform. My thanks to Eilidh (from @Camusconsulting) and Donna (from @ScotCroftingFed) for having me as a guest. You can listen on Spotify or on this website. sites.libsyn.com/572695/epis…
Rural Law retweeted
Event at @UniStrathclyde on 9 September, with Kume Hideyo (an Associate Professor at Chubu University, Japan). She will deliver a seminar entitled, “Legal and Policy Approaches to the Use of Public Assets in Scotland and Japan”. Details and booking link: strath.ac.uk/humanities/laws…
Rural Law retweeted
EVENT at @UniStrathclyde on 9 September with Associate Professor Kume Hideyo, comparing approaches to land use and land reform in Scotland and Japan. Booking and details via Eventbrite. eventbrite.co.uk/e/legal-app…
ALT Picture of an agricultural field with pylons and electricity apparatus under a cloudy but sunny sky, with the text "Legal and Policy Approaches to the Use of Public Assets in Scotland and Japan. Hideyo Kume Chubu University (Japan)"
Rural Law retweeted
New publication in Landscape Research. I was part of the writing team, led by Fremantle & Vergunst, with Barwell, Bevan, Cavers, Clarke, Collins, Goto Collins, Cottrell, Douglas, Edwards, Ellison, Heddon, Heim, Kalshoven, Marion, Oliver, Saraev & Veenman tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
Rural Law retweeted
EVENT at @UniStrathclyde: Wetter, Wilder, and Yet Drier... Perspectives on Manoeuvring Water Licences in Times of Climate Change, a hybrid seminar with Gunnhild Storbekkrønning Solli at 5pm on 26 August eventbrite.co.uk/e/perspecti…
Rural Law retweeted
Prof Francesco Sindico @lawstrath responds to the @CIJ_ICJ #ClimateChange Advisory Opinion, after representing @IUCN at the hearing bit.ly/4oC5mB3
Rural Law retweeted
New consultation!
'Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture Research Strategy 2027-32' was published today.
Find out more and respond to this consultation on Citizen Space: consult.gov.scot/environment…
@scotgov
@ScotGovRural
ALT Consultation launched. Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture Research Strategy 2027-32. Your views matter.
Rural Law retweeted
NEWS - Aidan Fisher, a postgraduate student on our LLM Human Rights Law programme, recently offered research support to the mandate of the UN Special Rapporteur on Climate Change and Human Rights (an office currently held by our Professor Elisa Morgera). strath.ac.uk/humanities/laws…
Rural Law retweeted
On Wednesday 13 August I'm giving a free talk on community rights to buy for the Strathclyde Institute for Sustainable Communities at @UniStrathclyde. The talk starts at 12.30; guests can turn up with their own lunch from 12 noon. Tea and coffee afterwards eventbrite.co.uk/e/sustainab…
Rural Law retweeted
Man jailed and handed animal ban for filming dogs attacking and killing wildlife and domestic cat
copfs.gov.uk/about-copfs/new…
Rural Law retweeted
I have blogged, about a consultation on Scotland's community rights to buy. #landreform
basedrones.wordpress.com/202…