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[10/10/11]Wigs on the Shelf in Scotland
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Wigs on the Shelf in Scotland

The latest annual review by the Department for Planning and Environmental Appeals is gloomy reading for advocates and planning solicitors with only 32 of the 258 planning appeals for 2010-2011 being considered at an oral hearing, and even then many of these were single issue hearings with no chance for cross-examination. The other worrying statistic for our legal friends is that there is little to choose, in terms of success rates, between written representation appeals and the rest. Of course, this may have something to do with the current economic climate (you don’t appeal unless you think you can win) and local reviews taking away the householder appeals and the small stuff, but a return to good old fashioned cross-examination, and a right old ding-dong, looks some way off.

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