Malcolm Combe

Sep 20, 2024 | edinburghuniversitypress.com | Francis P McManus |James Chalmers |Malcolm Combe |Alisdair MACPHERSON

Get the big picture – without the big readingEdinburgh Law Essentials is a fresh series of concise study and revision guides for law students. With essential facts and essential cases featured at the end of each chapter to show the law in practice, each book brings a particular topic into sharp focus. Titles published before 2014 were originally published by Dundee University Press as Dundee Law Essentials. Would you like to write for the Edinburgh Law Essentials series?

Aug 23, 2024 | lawgazette.co.uk | Malcolm Combe

One of the casualties of the recent UK general election was a bill that would have changed the law regulating privately rented homes in Great Britain. The Renters Reform Bill – as it was known before it fell when parliament was prorogued – contained a key feature that was a fulfilment of the then Conservative government’s election manifesto, namely to end so-called ‘no fault’ evictions.

Nov 3, 2023 | strath.ac.uk | Malcolm Combe

By Malcolm Combe - Posted on 3 November 2023Land reform in Scotland is something of an old chestnut. I’ve also described it in the past as a “hot potato”, and no doubt other produce-related analogies can be put forward in an attempt to simplify what is quite a complicated issue. Every time I write a new post about Scottish land reform I find myself struggling to do justice to the various valid perspectives about the topic. I also face the challenge of, hopefully, not just repeating myself.