Axiom Advocates

Latest News

  • 7 June 2013

    Axiom welcomes new member Elisabeth Roxburgh
  • 30 May 2013

    Cut in fishing quotas deemed unfair
  • 6 May 2013

    Challenge to minimum alcohol pricing fails
  • 1 May 2013

    Inner House reaffirms the respect to be afforded to specialist discipline tribunals
  • 24 April 2013

    Supreme Court upholds approval by Scottish Ministers of the Fife Structure Plan
  • 15 April 2013

    Charity fails in expenses claim against Legal Aid Board
Find an advocate
  • James McNeill QC
  • Heriot Currie QC
  • Richard Keen QC (Dean of Faculty)
  • Lord (Neil) Davidson of Glen Clova QC
  • Gerry Moynihan QC
  • Iain Ferguson QC
  • David Johnston QC
  • James Wolffe QC (Vice-Dean of Faculty)
  • Alistair Clark QC
  • Ruth Crawford QC
  • Sarah Wolffe QC
  • Jonathan Lake QC
  • James Mure QC
  • Roddy Dunlop QC
  • Mark Lindsay QC
  • Anna Poole QC
  • Sean Smith QC
  • Alastair Duncan QC
  • Kenny McBrearty
  • Garry Borland
  • Roisin Higgins
  • Gavin Walker
  • Morag Ross
  • Jonathan Barne
  • Almira Delibegović-Broome
  • David Thomson
  • Martin Richardson
  • Paul O'Brien
  • Christopher Wilson
  • Euan Duthie
  • John N M MacGregor
  • Miranda Hamilton
  • Alasdair McKenzie
  • Helen Watts
  • Susan Ower
  • Chris Paterson
  • Ross McClelland
  • Jonathan Broome
  • Lesley Irvine
  • Elisabeth Roxburgh

Axiom Advocates News

Our latest news stories are listed above. For older stories, please check the Archive.

Axiom Advocates News

Our latest news stories are listed above. For older stories, please check the Archive.

Axiom Advocates News

Our latest news stories are listed above. For older stories, please check the Archive.

Axiom Advocates News

Our latest news stories are listed above. For older stories, please check the Archive.

Axiom Advocates News

Our latest news stories are listed above. For older stories, please check the Archive.

Axiom Advocates News

Our latest news stories are listed above. For older stories, please check the Archive.

Axiom Advocates News

Our latest news stories are listed above. For older stories, please check the Archive.

Axiom Advocates News

Our latest news stories are listed above. For older stories, please check the Archive.

Axiom Advocates News

Our latest news stories are listed above. For older stories, please check the Archive.

Axiom Advocates News

Our latest news stories are listed above. For older stories, please check the Archive.

Axiom Advocates News

Our latest news stories are listed above. For older stories, please check the Archive.

Axiom Advocates News

Our latest news stories are listed above. For older stories, please check the Archive.

Axiom Advocates News

Our latest news stories are listed above. For older stories, please check the Archive.

Axiom Advocates News

Our latest news stories are listed above. For older stories, please check the Archive.

Axiom Advocates News

Our latest news stories are listed above. For older stories, please check the Archive.

Axiom Advocates News

Our latest news stories are listed above. For older stories, please check the Archive.

Axiom Advocates News

Our latest news stories are listed above. For older stories, please check the Archive.

Axiom Advocates News

Our latest news stories are listed above. For older stories, please check the Archive.

Axiom Advocates News

Our latest news stories are listed above. For older stories, please check the Archive.

Axiom Advocates News

Our latest news stories are listed above. For older stories, please check the Archive.

Axiom Advocates News

Our latest news stories are listed above. For older stories, please check the Archive.

Axiom Advocates News

Our latest news stories are listed above. For older stories, please check the Archive.

Axiom Advocates News

Our latest news stories are listed above. For older stories, please check the Archive.

Axiom Advocates News

Our latest news stories are listed above. For older stories, please check the Archive.

Axiom Advocates News

Our latest news stories are listed above. For older stories, please check the Archive.

Axiom Advocates News

Our latest news stories are listed above. For older stories, please check the Archive.

Axiom Advocates News

Our latest news stories are listed above. For older stories, please check the Archive.

Axiom Advocates News

Our latest news stories are listed above. For older stories, please check the Archive.

Axiom Advocates News

Our latest news stories are listed above. For older stories, please check the Archive.

Axiom Advocates News

Our latest news stories are listed above. For older stories, please check the Archive.

Axiom Advocates News

Our latest news stories are listed above. For older stories, please check the Archive.

Axiom Advocates News

Our latest news stories are listed above. For older stories, please check the Archive.

Axiom Advocates News

Our latest news stories are listed above. For older stories, please check the Archive.

Axiom Advocates News

Our latest news stories are listed above. For older stories, please check the Archive.

Axiom Advocates News

Our latest news stories are listed above. For older stories, please check the Archive.

Axiom Advocates News

Our latest news stories are listed above. For older stories, please check the Archive.

Axiom Advocates News

Our latest news stories are listed above. For older stories, please check the Archive.

Axiom Advocates News

Our latest news stories are listed above. For older stories, please check the Archive.

Axiom Advocates News

Our latest news stories are listed above. For older stories, please check the Archive.

Axiom Advocates News

Our latest news stories are listed above. For older stories, please check the Archive.

Axiom Advocates News

Our latest news stories are listed above. For older stories, please check the Archive.

  • Home
  • About us
  • Advocates
  • Practice areas
  • News
  • Seminars
  • Contact us

David Stephen v Scottish Ministers SLC/32/07

23 September 2008

Under the common agricultural policy of the European Union, farmers are able to claim various farming subsidies.  One such subsidy was suckler cow premium.  After the BSE crisis, the beef market tumbled and the EU authorities took steps to try to reduce the number of bovine animals in the EU.  One step taken was to introduce a rule into suckler cow premium that there be a minimum of 5% of heifers in a UK claim.  The idea was that farmers would be encouraged to keep fewer suckler cows, meaning there would be fewer calves, and accordingly overall bovine numbers would fall.  If the minimum requirement of heifers in a claim was not met, farmers could lose significant amounts of subsidy. 

 

A number of farmers failed to comply with the 5% rule, often because they failed to replace heifers which calved and to notify replacement animals to the authorities.   Consequently they lost subsidy, so many appealed.    A test case was identified and other cases sisted to await its outcome.  The challenges in the test case were wide ranging, but included aspects of interpretation of EU legislation, application of the principles of legal certainty and proportionality, and the issue of references to the European Court of Justice.  Ultimately the Land Court found against the farmer. 

 

Anna Poole of Axiom Advocates acted for the Scottish Ministers, who were successful in the action. The full decision can be accessed at:- 

 http://www.scottish-land-court.org.uk/decisions/SLC.32.07.rub.html


[ Back to news page ]
  • You are here
  • News
  • David Stephen v Scottish Ministers SLC/32/07

Axiom Advocates Advocates Library Parliament House Edinburgh EH1 1R
Tel: 0131 226 2881 Fax: 0131 225 3642 | Registered No.48261 Scotland.

  • Site Map
  • Links
  • Accessibility
  • Legal
  • Privacy Policy

2009 Axiom Advocates. Faculty Services Ltd. | site by Sears Davies