Terra Firma Chambers Gordon Watt has been admitted as a member of the Chartered Institute of Taxation having passed their professional examinations. The CIOT is the gold standard professional body in the UK concerned solely with direct and indirect taxation. more...
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News from Sep 2014
James Findlay of Terra Firma Chambers appeared for an interested party in an application to the Court of Session for a Protected Expenses Order in the judicial review of a decision of Argyll and Bute Council granting planning permission for a rainbow trout farm in Loch Etive. Lord Malcolm rejected the application by a charitable company, Friends of Loch Etive on the basis that a single landowner was behind the charitable company and he had assumed the role of or something akin to dominus litus [2014] CSOH 116. more...
Terra Firma Chambers is delighted to announce that Roddy McIlvride and Philip Simpson have been appointed Queens Counsel. There were four new appointments made by Her Majesty the Queen on the recommendation of the First Minister following nominations by the Lord Justice General, the Rt Hon. Lord Gill. This brings the number of silks at Terra Firma to 15 and increases the strength and depth of senior Counsel available within the stable. more...
Scottish Ministers recently rejected a s.36 application for a 34-turbine wind farm at Glenmorie in Sutherland. The decision is one of the first to deal with the new wild land areas and wild land policy changes in the Scottish Planning Policy(2). more...
James Findlay and Douglas Armstrong QC of Terra Firma Chambers successfully represented the appellants in an appeal to the Inner House of the Court of Session against a decision to approve plans for the construction of a waste incinerator in Easter Ross. more...
Terra Firma Chambers will host its Annual Local Authority Conference on 20th October 2014. This years event will be held at the Lighthouse in Glasgow and will be followed by a drinks reception. more...
Terra Firma Chambers' Philip Simpson successfully represented the taxpayer in the recent betting duty case Devine v HMRC. HMRC had sought to assess the taxpayer to additional sums of betting duty on the basis that the taxpayer had deliberately understated takings on betting duty returns over a four-year period. HMRC had in addition levied penalties on the basis that the under-declarations were deliberate. more...
