Jim has over 40 years’ experience in the Rural and Private Client Sectors and in excess of 30 years in the Environmental arena. Work areas include Property, Leasing, Succession, Business Structures. Inheritance Tax, Renewables, Salmon Fisheries and Minerals.

He is accredited by the Law Society of Scotland as a specialist in Agricultural Law and holds a Certificate from Glasgow University in Environmental Law. He has now served the full permitted term as Convener of the Law Society Rural Affairs Committee but remains a member of it. He also sits on the Law Society’s Environmental Committee.

He is also on the Scottish Land & Estates’ Legal Committee.

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