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The Edinburgh Tax Network and Chartered Institute of Taxation invite you to join Janet Mui and Graeme Muir of Brewin Dolphin for an update on financial markets and analysis of pensions by webinar on Thursday 24th February 2020 from 1pm to 2pm. At this event, Janet and Graeme will discuss: This event

In a new article, Terra Firma's Maurice O'Carroll considers unauthorised development and immunity from planning enforcement. "Development is unauthorised when it has taken place in the absence of planning permission. A local planning authority (LPA) has the power to issue an Enforcement Notice (EN)

Terra Firma Chambers’ Scott Blair will chair CLT’s Licensing Conference on Thursday 7th October 2021. The virtual event, part of CLT’s Scots Law Autumn Series, will consider the numerous challenges faced by the licensing industry over the past 18 months. The conference will not onl

Terra Firma's David Logan successfully represented the petitioners, a community interest company, in a judicial review against a planning decision of Dundee City Council to install an e-bike docking station outside residential flats in the West End Suburbs Conservation Area of Dundee. The core of th

Andrew Bowen QC of Terra Firma Chambers examines the case law on reflective loss. In the Supreme Court’s seven-justice ‘root and branch’ review of the rule against reflective loss (often referred to as ‘the rule in Prudential’), the majority held that a shareholder coul

The Edinburgh Tax Network, in conjunction with CIOT, ATT and Terra Firma Chambers, will present a webinar which will take an in-depth look at Family Investment Companies (FICS) on 13 July 2021 from 2pm to 5pm. The speakers, Ritchie Tout of Mazars; Alex Docherty and Billy Cleland of Johnsto

Terra Firma’s Robert Sutherland has been appointed as the Scottish editor for Garner’s Environmental Law. Garner's is the leading environmental law loose-leaf publication containing a comprehensive collection of UK acts, statutory instruments, Scottish acts and Scottish statutory instrum

Terra Firma Chambers’ spring programme of webinars concluded on Thursday 13 May with the seventh event to date in our 2021 webinar series. Our Planning Law webinar was very well attended with 130 delegates signing up and feedback resoundingly positive. The number of attendees have been co

Philip Simpson QC and Graham MacIver, instructed by the Office of the Advocate General, have successfully represented HMRC in a challenge to the loan charge legislation based on EU law: Finucane v HMRC [2021] CSOH 38. The challenge was brought in Scotland; there are parallel proceedings ra

On Thursday 22nd April 2021 at 11am, Terra Firma Chambers will present a webinar focusing on the Inquiries Act 2005 with Stuart Gale QC and Denis Edwards. Stuart’s talk will include an overview of inquiries under the Act, the role of solicitors and counsel and practical considerations, while D

Terra Firma Chambers’ 2021 Webinar Series will continue with three further events in April and May. On Thursday 22nd April at 11am, TFC will present a webinar focusing on The Inquiries Act 2005 with Stuart Gale QC and Denis Edwards.

Terra Firma Chambers will host an Employment Law Webinar, live via Zoom at 11am on Thursday, 8th April. This event, the latest in TFC’s 2021 webinar series, will be chaired by Terra Firma Director David Logan who will speak about Post-Covid Economic Realities for Employers. Peter Grant-Hutchis

Terra Firma Chambers is launching a spring webinars series with two events looking at the ways in which communities can now use the law to require the transfer of land and other property to them. There are an increasing number of community groups making applications under these provisions, which rai

Faryma Bahrami has returned to full-time practice at Terra Firma Chambers, having spent three years working as an investment professional at Baillie Gifford. Ms Bahrami called to the bar in 2015 having previously held the position of assistant public solicitor on the British Overseas Territory

The Edinburgh Tax Network, in conjunction with CIOT and Terra Firma Chambers, will present a talk entitled ‘Tax Issues on Importing and Exporting - post 1 January 2021’ on 27 November 2020 from 1pm to 2pm. The event was originally scheduled for 5 November. The speaker, Matthew