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  The Poor Had No Lawyers: Who Owns Scotland and How They Got it (Paperback) By (author) Andy Wightman

  

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  Short Description for The Poor Had No LawyersEver wondered why so much of Scotland's land belongs to so few? In this fascinating account Andy Wightman revisits the facts, figures and stories first introduced in Who Owns Scotland and updates the tale to take account of our current economic climate.
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  • Publisher: BIRLINN LTD
  • Published: 01 August 2011
  • Format: Paperback 320 pages
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  • Categories: Property & Real Estate | Social & Cultural History
  • ISBN 13: 9781841589602 ISBN 10: 1841589608
  • Sales rank: 293,488

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• Who Owns Scotland? How did they get it? What happened to all the common land in Scotland? Has the Scottish Parliament made any difference? Can we get our common good land back? In The Poor Had No Lawyers, Andy Wightman, author of Who Owns Scotland, updates the statistics of landownership in Scotland and takes the reader on a voyage of discovery into Scotland's history to find out how and why landowners got their hands on the millions of acres of land that were once held in common. He tells the untold story of how Scotland's legal establishment and politicians managed to appropriate land through legal fixes. From Robert the Bruce to Willie Ross and from James V to Donald Dewar, land has conferred political and economic power. Have attempts to redistribute this power more equitably made any difference and what are the full implications of the recent debt fuelled housing bubble? For all those with an interest in urban and rural land in Scotland, The Poor Had No Lawyers provides a fascinating and illuminating analysis of one the most important political questions in Scotland - who owns Scotland and how did they get it?