This article is part of an ongoing series noting developments in a number of subject areas affecting rural legal practice. This month's coverage includes several earlier decisions of the Scottish Land Court which have recently come to the author's attention, including several bearing on practice and procedure of the Court. Other cases of interest include the meaning of 'representative' in the context of on-the-spot farm checks, a decision of the First Tier Tribunal which will bring some comfort to farmers who are required to scale back their activities as they get older, and a case about the definition of 'waste' in the context of a commercial agreement for use of land as a landfill site. more...