Highland Titles Glencoe Estates Conservation Scam?

What can you do about it if you were to discover that Highland Titles Glencoe Estates are not carrying out the conservation work that you expected? In a two words .... not much!

Here is how it works ......

When you buy a plot of land in Scotland from Highland Titles you enter into a contract to buy that plot of land and the documents that go with it, nothing else. That contract makes no mention of any promises to do anything else, you are not buying a promise to do any conservation work. As they have supplied the land and documents their part of the contract is now fulfilled and as you have paid for it so is your part, that is the end of obligation on both parties.

So if Highland Titles Glencoe Estates do not do the conservation work that you thought they were going to do, their is little you can do about it as the contract is fulfilled, you suffer no material loss as you have your land, so you have no claim.

When it comes to the conservation work that they supposedly do, it is literally a case of "Buyer Beware". They have no contract with buyers to do any conservation work, and can even should they choose to do so mislead, and say they have done work which they have not done. Legally there is little you could do about it as you have suffered no material loss.

Highland Titles Glencoe Estates are not a conservation company, they do not sell conservation. As they say themselves on the home page of their website "We only sell plots of land ."

Highland Titles Glencoe Estates as far as I am aware produce very little in the way of details of conservation work they have actually completed. Oh they have done some, but exactly how much, nobody with the exception of themselves seems to know. They do not produce yearly figures detailing for instance numbers of trees planted, locations of planted trees, yards of paths built and to what standard. They publish no figures that I can find detailing their annual income or expenditure on conservation work, making it difficult for anyone to satisfy themselves that a reasonable amount of revenue is actually being spent on conservation work.

If I go to the website of a reputable conservation charity like the Woodland Trust, I can find out pretty much everything they have been doing with locations and figures, and indeed get a copy of their annual accounts. With Highland Titles when I go to their website looking for specific numbers and locations I find ...... virtually nothing.

Is it not strange that a company who claims to be doing so much conservation works seems to have no interest in publishing exact details of their work to date, and let people know what percentage of income is actually spent on that work? You'd have to wonder if they might have something to hide?

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I have a lot more evidence suggesting dishonest and unethical business practices by several souvenir plot / title vendors which I have not published.. If you are a bona fide journalist or Government department with an interest in investigating this business and would like access to that evidence, please get in touch with me by using the email address on the right or sending me a comment marked "confidential", I will not publish comments so marked

Can I Put My Highland Titles - Glencoe Estates Title On A UK Driving License?

This was included in another post in shortened form but I think it is worth repeating in full on a post of its own.

Highland Titles - Glencoe Estates suggest that you may be able put a title such as Lord or Lady on a UK driving license after buying one of their plots, this is not the case. If you want to find out it is an easy task to just ask the people that actually issue driving licences in the UK, the Driving And Vehicle License Agency (DVLA). An information request asking if there is a policy for titles on driving licenses was duly made to the DVLA, here is their reply.


TITLE CODES
When inputting any transaction we have to include a title, to do this we key in a
number rather than the actual title. Below is a list of the title codes: -
1 - Mr
2 - Mrs
3 - Miss
4 - Female with no prefix e.g. Jane Jones
5 - Male with no prefix e.g. David Jones
6 - Female with a different title to number 2 and 3 e.g. Dr, Lady or Ms
7 - Male with a different title to number 1 e.g. Dr, Rev or Sir
8 - Female without a surname e.g. Lady Clydach or Duchess of Swansea
9 - Male without surname e.g. Lord Pontardawe or Duke of Swansea

· If someone wants to be known by an alias use:
Code 8 for Female
Code 9 for Male

The alias must be entered in the TITLE field, not the surname and forename fields.

· When someone quotes distinction letters after their name, enter the surname as
usual followed by a comma and then the distinction.
E.g. Jones, SRN
Davies, MBE

· Service titles should be entered the same way as civilian titles :
E.g. Code 6 (female) - Brigadier
Code 7 (male) - Major


HEREDITARY AND CONFERRED TITLES
· If the applicant is found in “Who’s Who” or “Debretts”, or submits satisfactory
evidence of entitlement to a hereditary or conferred title, the application should be
keyed following the general rules for all title codes.

· Staff are reminded, however, that when keying title codes 8 or 9 the full title and
requested name must be entered. These codes will suppress all other personal
details used to create the Driver Number.

· Always DAM the licence back to check that the licence has been produced in the
correct format.

BOUGHT TITLES
When a Title deed is received requesting a change of title e.g. “Mr” to
“Lord”, a check of “Who’s Who” (held on some Input teams and Business
Support) or “Debretts” (held in Open Resource Centre, A Block) must be
undertaken. This will establish whether the title has been ‘bought’ or has
been obtained as a genuine title. If a title cannot be located in either
publication it is safe to assume it has been ‘bought’. In such cases the
application must be rejected for a Deed Poll or Statutory Declaration as
evidence of a change of name.

· ‘Bought’ titles do not give rights to a spouse. For example a female applicant
could not claim the title of “Lady” on the strength of her husband buying a title in
his name only. She must submit a Deed Poll either in her own name or as part of
a joint title.

· The applicant should be advised that we are following the practice of the UK
Passport Agency in doing this and consequently, our procedures are subject to
change in the future

· The bought title (Lord, Baron etc) should form the first forename. The title code 4
or 5 should be used to suppress any other title.

· DAM the licence back to check.

So there you are, that is the official line from the DVLA, unless you are in Who's Who or Debretts you cannot have you title put on a UK driving license as a title. The fake titles sold by Highland Titles will not get you into either of those reference books. If you were set on having a Lord Lady or Laird title on your driving license you might be in for a disappointment.

This is yet another example of misinformation supplied by the Highland Titles scam to try to persuade trusting people to part with their hard earned money, please please please don't fall for it.

Highland Titles - Previous Incarnations

When I do searches for information regarding the people behind Highland Titles it seems that nobody has anything good to say about them except themselves. These are some bits and pieces I've come across, it seems they have upset a lot of people before now, here is what others have to say.

This  blog post describes some of the other dubious enterprises used by the people behind Highland Titles to dupe members of the public out of their money - https://theanatomyofascam.wordpress.com

From the Daily Mirror - http://www.mirror.co.uk/opinion/money-opinion/p-s-investigates/fee-or-free-telephone-preference-opt-out-282769

"There's the ­Telephone ­Preference Service, run by the Direct Marketing Association, where at no cost you can register your phone number to stop unwanted sales calls.

Then there's Telephone Preference Register's website, www.telephonepreference.org.uk, which sounds official but isn't and wants £9.99 to add you to its opt-out list.

It has just been ruled misleading by the ­Advertising Standards Authority for "leading users to infer it was a Government service".

It gives a mailbox address in London but the site is registered to the Channel Islands in the name of Lochaber ­Highland Estates Ltd.

It's linked to Peter Bevis, 56, who made a packet selling tiny parcels of Scottish woodland, Laird and Lady titles."

From a thread in a fishing forum at - http://www.maggotdrowning.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=124324&whichpage=2

 "I get the impression that posters to this thread would like to know who has - in common sense, if not strictly legal terms - defrauded them and I think I can help. Apologies in advance for the rather long posting however.

Internet investigation by me using the Data Protection registration number quoted by the fraudulent website (Z2497964) reveals that the ‘company’ behind it is indeed called Universal Check Services, of Office 1, 26 Cleveland Road, South Woodford, London, E18 2AN. This also aligns with what is on the Information Commissioner’s Office register, but this also states that the Data Controller is QUALITY DESIGN (CI) LIMITED whose address is PO Box 140, GG, Alderney GY9 3HA, Guernsey (Note: a GY9 postcode indicates Alderney). Some further searching turns up a now defunct web site stating that Quality Design (CI) Limited is registered in Alderney as Company Number 1712.

The people behind Quality Design (CI) Limited are a Dr. Peter Bevis (full name believed to be Peter John Robert Bevis) and his daughter Laura Miriam Bevis. Peter Bevis, a former academic biologist within the Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York is a Director of Lochaber Highland Estates Ltd. which sells very small plots of land in Scotland on the basis that the new owners can then call themselves a 'Laird'. Dr. Bevis is either married to or partnered with a Helen McGregor, apparently a former barrister with the Crown Prosecution Service whose legal advice is no doubt invaluable in ensuring that the risk of the family’s activities resulting in prosecution is minimal."

From thefreelibrary - http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Laird+title+sell-off+'a+bit+fishy'.-a0160995732

"A LANDOWNER is selling off an aristocratic title to anyone who pays pounds 20 for a square foot of his estate.

On auction site eBay, Dr Peter Bevis also promises the right to catch salmon in his Highland grounds.

He writes: "Can you imagine your friends' faces when you tell them they must call you Lord 'Whatever' of Lochaber?"

But the angling rights have been called worthless as no mature salmon can leap the Monessie Falls, a waterfall leading to his 60,000-acre Tulloch estate.

Only juvenile salmon can be found in his stretch of the River Spean - and they are protected by law.

Fishery board member Malcolm Spence QC said: "What Bevis is doing is completely wrong. I think it would be a criminal act to fish above the falls.""

It would seem that the people behind Highland Titles have ruffled a few feathers before.

You can read more about their previous exploits by following these links:
http://highlandtitlesscam.wordpress.com/the-fishing-rod-licence-application-scam/
http://highlandtitlesscam.wordpress.com/telephone-preference-opt-out-scam/

Did Highland Titles Buy Their Land For Conservation?

Highland Titles claim to have originally bought their estate to protect it from development, this claim simply does not hold up to scrutiny. In fact they sell quarter acre and half acre plots of their estate for devlopment purposes. Remember when the people behind Highland Titles called themselves Lochaber Highland Estates? This is what they said then and are still saying now. To quote from one of their own websites

"The Woodland Sites being offered may be suitable for leisure use or some sensitive development. The land is not zoned for development though temporary structures are normally permitted. However, planning permission may be possible in the future and so the plots offer an interesting long term investment"

These plots are situated on Native Scottish Woodland, development of them would result in destruction of much of that woodland, yet Highland Titles who claim to be so interested in conservation are actively encouraging development! Does anybody still believe they are very interested in conservation?

How Much Money Is Left After The Wages Are Paid?

Interestingly on her BBC Radio Guernsey interview Alex Flewitt agreed with Murray Norton that Highland Titles are the biggest employer on Alderney with 26 employees. Yes that is what she said, 26 employees, and that is just on Alderney, presumably there will be some in the UK too, otherwise how is all that "conservation work" getting done?

You might like to think about how much is going to be left over for "conservation work" after paying out the wage bill before making a contribution.

There is no mention of numbers of employees in the UK. There is only one that I know of, John MacDanold their ghillie, and I happen to know he also works for the National Trust for Scotland so he is part time. If it is the case that he is the only UK employee, who is doing all Highland Titles' conservation work?

Lady Alex Flewitt From Highland Titles On BBC Radio Guernsey

Lady Alex Flewitt of Highland Titles was recently on BBC Radio Guernsey being interviewed by Murray Norton. Here are some quotations (in green) from that, and my comments.

Alex Flewitt - "Under Scottish landowners law you can become the Laird Lord or Lady of the land"

There is no Scottish landowners law which states this, this law does not exist, this statement is nonsense, they just made that up. The only Lord and Lady titles available in Scotland are those awarded to peers, Laird is not even a title at all.

Murray Norton - "So what would the title be"
Alex Flewitt - "Laird Of Glencoe"

This would infer (to me anyway) that the land for sale would therefore be in Glencoe, this is not the case. The land sold by Highland Titles in not in Glencoe, it is 15 miles or so from Glencoe in a small patch of land which Highland Titles just called Glencoe Wood, though it had never been known by this name before, and has no connection at all to Glencoe. Laird Of Glencoe is not a genuine title, it is a trademark registered with the IPO by Highland Titles. A company called Lord Titles pulled the same stunt as can be seen in this Advertising Standards Authority ruling. "We also noted the titles Lord of the Manor of Wansley and Lady of the Manor of Wansley were registered as trademarks with the IPO, rather than being genuine titles".

Alex Flewitt - "Did a bit of Australian telly out there and eh we got upgraded straight away first class flights and hotel as soon as they see that title they go a little bit crazy"

This is really quite a serious claim. Firstly, you do not actually have a title, all you have done is changed your name to for instance Lord Of Glencoe, Lord being your first name not your title. Secondly it is illegal in the UK to change your name for the purposes of fraud. Should an airline or hotel offer upgraded services on the basis that you are in fact a real Lord, should you not volunteer the information that you are not really a lord, and that Lord is actually your first name, you could leave yourself open to an accusation of fraud, which is a criminal offense. The UK Home Office advice on this is quite clear as can be seen in this document http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/publications/agencies-public-bodies/ips/passports-policy-publications/titles-included-in-passports?view=Binary

Quotation from the official UK Home Office Document:
"There are companies that change an individual's name to include a title. Legal advice has been sought on this issue and the Identity and Passport Service (IPS) policy is based on the advice received.
It is clear an individual can call themselves any name they wish providing is not for a fraudulent purpose. However, it is believed there is no legal basis for a person to change their title: e.g. from Mr to Lord. It follows, therefore, that applicants have the right to change their name, for example, from Mr John Smith to Mr Sir John Smith and adopt "Sir" as an additional forename. But they cannot change their title from Mr John Smith to Sir John Smith"

The service offered by Highland Titles is merely a change of name service and does not confer a real title. Buyers believing they have a real title could inadvertently leave themselves open to a criminal charge of fraud. Furthermore, suggesting that you can get upgraded services etc. by changing your name, is without doubt an encouragement to buyers to break the law by changing their name for a fraudulent purpose.

Alex Flewitt - "you have your co-ordinates that you can plumb into your sat-nav, come up to the land, and eh go and find your exact square foot"

It is not possible to exactly locate a square foot of land with any commercially available sat-nav receiver. Garmin, a very respected manufacturer of GPS receivers claim an accuracy of 15 meters on average. "Certain atmospheric factors and other sources of error can affect the accuracy of GPS receivers. Garmin® GPS receivers are accurate to within 15 meters on average."(http://www8.garmin.com/aboutGPS/).

Alex Flewitt - "We've got 19 pairs of golden eagles that reside on the land"

19 pairs of golden eagles could not possibly reside on 750 acres of land, the idea is utterly preposterous. There are only 19 pairs of golden eagles residing in the whole of the Scottish National Heritage Glen Etive And Loch Fyne Special Protection Area which covers a vast area from Glen Kinglas in the south to Appin in the north. http://www.snh.org.uk/pdfs/strategy/GEConsult/5.5A-GLENETIVEGLENFYNECASE-B437685.pdf map at http://www.snh.gov.uk/docs/B722753.pdf

Murray Norton - "Can I change the passport"
Alex Flewitt - "Anything that has your previous title on it is fine"

This is misinformation and it needs to be absolutely clear that according to the Home Office you cannot put a title that you do not have on a UK Passport. The Home Office advice on this is again very clear as taken from the following document, http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/publications/agencies-public-bodies/ips/passports-policy-publications/titles-included-in-passports?view=Binary

Quotation from the official UK Home Office Document:
"There are companies that change an individual's name to include a title. Legal advice has been sought on this issue and the Identity and Passport Service (IPS) policy is based on the advice received.

It is clear an individual can call themselves any name they wish providing is not for a fraudulent purpose. However, it is believed there is no legal basis for a person to change their title: e.g. from Mr to Lord. It follows, therefore, that applicants have the right to change their name, for example, from Mr John Smith to Mr Sir John Smith and adopt "Sir" as an additional forename. But they cannot change their title from Mr John Smith to Sir John Smith.

As there is a right for an applicant to change their name by deed poll, the presumed title can appear on the personal details page of the passport as a forename with an observation being entered relating to the name change. An observation is required in any case where there is the potential for any name change to mislead; this includes reference to a title and to maintain the integrity of the passport.
In cases where an applicant has adopted a description of a title of nobility as a forename the observation to be entered is:
• THE REFERENCE TO .............................................. IS TO THE HOLDER'S NAME AND NOT TO THE HOLDER'S TITLE.(e.g. LORD; SIR; BARON; ETC.)

This observation should automatically be placed in the passport of any such applicant and there is no need to contact them unless the application form is completed in a way that indicates the customer believes they are applying for a change of title rather than of name. In these circumstances the applicant should be advised of how the data will be displayed in the passport and of the observation that will be entered in the document.

The above observation should also be used in all renewal applications where the children's and adult's birth names are similarly misleading, for example where names on birth certificates are registered as Princess, Prince, Earl, Duke, etc."

Highland Titles Nature Reserve

Highland Titles on their website on the "we are green" page, claim to have recently acquired a 500 acre plot of land using profits, and have set up the Highland Titles Nature Reserve. There is no location given, no map provided showing the location, no disclosure of how much it cost. I have asked organisations like Scottish National Heritage and Visit Scotland if they have ever heard of it, nobody I have contacted has.

The only clue as to the location is that it is near they place they called Glencoe Wood near Duror, and within the Scottish National Heritage Glen Etive and Glen Fyne Special Protection Area. The Glen Etive and Glen Fyne Special Protection Area is vast, covering huge areas of land between Glen Kinglas in the south to Appin in the north. In short, I can't find where it actually is!

An email enquiring as to the whereabouts of the nature reserve got this response.

"The Nature Reserve is sign posted once you are in Glencoe Wood, it is basically across the stream on the opposite side to our plots within the Conservation area."

I could be wrong as I have not enquired with the Scottish Land Registry to find the owner, but I don't think they own or lease the land indicated by the above directions.

What exactly is in the Highland Titles Nature Reserve? I don't know and they are not saying, little information is given on their website.
Here is what I suspect, I can't prove it but I can speculate. I think they did not buy any land, and have said so to try to account for the money they are supposed to be spending on conservation projects. I think that as of this date, the Highland Titles Nature Reserve does not exist on any new land they have purchased.

As always, if I'm wrong and you can point me to where it is, or prove they did actually buy the land, I'll be very happy to report it here.

Scotland On Sunday Highland Titles Comment

There was an article in the newspaper Scotland On Sunday (The Scotsman) a couple of weeks back titled "£30 Title to Lord it over Glencoe". One of the comments has caught my attention, I thought it quite amusing, to the point, and worth repeating here.

Saturday, February 25, 2012 at 11:06 AM

I might have agreed that it is just a bit of fun had Highland Titles not misdescribed what is on offer. Here's how I see it. If I saw a fully restored vintage Rolls Royce for sale and went to view it only to find it was actually a rusty old Ford Escort that had Rolls Royce badges stuck on it and the restoration work was a cardboard and body filler job and a bad re-spray, I'd fail to see the fun side of it. An explanation by the seller that it was just a bit of fun, would not really make me feel any better about wasting my time going to see it.

That's what Highland Titles have done, picked a vintage Rolls Royce location, Glencoe, and stuck Glencoe badges on their rusty old Ford Escort location by calling it Glencoe Wood. When I buy a car I want to view it personally before parting with cash, when folks in Australia, USA, or wherever buy a plot of land from Highland Titles they don't have an opportunity to view before buying, they take it on trust that the item is as described. Now people are finding out that what is on offer is not as described they are quite rightly getting upset about it, their trust had been betrayed. Highland Titles have misdescribed the product, have been caught out in the lie that the land they sell was actually in Glencoe, and people are complaning about the deception, simple, and in my opinion quite understandable.

Quite well put I thought!

Finding Your Highland Titles Glencoe Estates Plot

Highland Titles claim you can find your plot of land just by using an Ordnance Survey map. Like a lot of the information given by Higland Titles, this does not I think bear close scrutiny. Quite simply, Ordnance Survey maps, good as they are, are not accurate enough to be able to accurately locate a square foot of ground, this can be demonstrated using accuracy figures from Ordnance Survey themselves.

Scale and method of original survey		Expected Relative Accuracy at differing confidence levels
		68%	95%	99%
1:1250 scale	Maps surveyed at 1:1250 scale using instrumental methods to provide a framework of controlling detail.	±0.4m	±0.8m	±1.0m
1:2500 scale resurvey/ reformed	Maps surveyed at 1:2500 scale using instrumental methods to provide a framework of controlling detail.	±0.9m	±1.8m	±2.3m
1:2500 scale overhaul	Maps originally recompiled from pre-1946 County Series mapping.	±1.2m	±2.3m	±3.0m
1:10,000 scale *	Maps surveyed at 1:10000 scale using instrumental methods to provide a framework of controlling detail.	±3.5m	±6.7m	±8.8m

* Some generalisation of detail does occur for cartographic reasons on 1:10,000 mapping therefore some points of detail may appear to be less accurate than these standards.

The large scale 1:1250 scale map can only produce an accuracy of plus or minus 1 metre at 99% confidence level. The best 1:2500 scale map can only produce accuracy of plus or minus 2.3 metres at 99% confidence level. I would say it is not therefore possible to locate a 1 square foot plot using an Ordnance Survey map.

The Keeper of the Registers of Scotland seems to agree that the land cannot be found using an Ordnance Survey Map. “The Keeper of the Registers of Scotland cannot accept applications for registration in the land register for land not sufficiently described to allow it to be identified on the Ordnance Survey Map.”

How about GPS, surely that would locate a plot? Again when we examine the accuracy of commercially available GPS systems we find that the accuracy is not sufficient. Garmin, a very respected manufacturer of GPS receivers claim an accuracy of 15 metres on average. "Certain atmospheric factors and other sources of error can affect the accuracy of GPS receivers. Garmin® GPS receivers are accurate to within 15 meters on average."(http://www8.garmin.com/aboutGPS/). Not accurate enough to positively locate a square foot of ground then.

I have no idea how you could possibly locate your square foot of ground, if anybody does please get in touch and let me know, I'd be very interested to find out, and will correct this post if it is a valid method.

Highland Titles Scam - Souvenir Land Plot Ownership In Scotland

Is the land you bought from souvenir plot vendors like Highland Titles actually even yours? That seems like a very simple question, but in reality it is not. You paid your money they sent you a document saying the land was yours so it must be right? Well, in the case of land sales in Scotland, not necessarily.

In Scotland the standard practice for property sales is for the sale of property to be recorded in the Scottish Land Register, the sale not being considered complete until this is done. Small plots like souvenir plots cannot be thus registered. "In accordance with Section 4b of the Registration of Land (Scotland) Act (1979) will not record “a piece of land ……… of inconsiderable size or no practical utility".

These small souvenir plots cannot be registered in the Scottish Land Registry. Inability to register a souvenir plot means that the purchaser can only get a personal right of ownership. He or she cannot get a real right protected by the state guarantee that underpins a registered title. There is no true purchase involved as no title can be obtained to the plot of land.

Should the vendor you bought the personal right of ownership from go out of business, it is very unlikely you would be able to re-claim the land, and I can see no reason why it could not be sold to a third party. This may be of little consequence to the one square foot owners as the loss would be small, but those with larger plots which can cost a considerable amount, might not be terribly happy

A Scottish Land Commission Report On Land Registration (Scot Law Com No. 222)

Paragraph 12.82 of Report 222

 "There are businesses that offer for sale small plots of land in remoter areas of Scotland, usually accompanied by the promise that buyers will be "entitled" to call themselves "lairds". Plot sizes vary but may be one square metre or even less. Usually buyers are assured that they will acquire ownership of the plot, though in the advertisements we have seen there is no explanation of how that could happen given the terms of the 1979 Act, discussed in the next paragraph. The websites sometimes show the type of deed that a buyer will receive. The style used is generally English or American."

Paragraph 12.83 of Report 222

"Section 4(2)(b) of the 1979 Act forbids the Keeper to accept souvenir plots for registration in the Land Register. Even if the land were unregistered, a conveyance of a souvenir plot could not be recorded in the Register of Sasines, because it would be a conveyance for value. Accordingly it is difficult to see how customers could acquire ownership of souvenir plots. We have seen it suggested that the non-registrability of souvenir plots means that ownership in them passes by simple contract. That is not so.)"

An article from the Register Of Scotland on souvenir plot sales.

"A real right of ownership in land (in the sense of a right that is enforceable against third parties) can only be obtained by registration in the Land Register or by recording a deed in the Register of Sasines as appropriate."

An answer to a question asked in the Scottish Parliament by Mike Russell about Scottish souvenir land plot sales.

"The position of the Scottish Executive on the purported sale of souvenir plots is reflected in the terms of the above mentioned legislation. The Executive would advise that any individuals participating in transactions of this nature should be aware that there is no true purchase involved as no title can be obtained to the plot of land."

An article on Scottish souvenir plot ownership by Halliday Campbell Scottish solicitors.

"So, the argument that says you don't need to register title to a souvenir plot is at best disingenuous. It's not that you don't need to: you just can't. So, you can't “own” the plot and someone who subsequently buys the entire estate may register their title and leave you with only a personal right against those who sold to you."

This article in The Journal, the magazine of the Law Society Of Scotland is also of interest.

If you bought a souvenir plot of land in Scotland and was led to believe you were buying the real right of ownership of that land by the seller, you've been conned, ask for your money back.

You might also want to read this post on Laird Lord and Lady titles.