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Written Question · S1W-24669 · Session 1

Further to the answer to question S1W-15753 by Mr Jim Wallace on 11 June 2001, how the legal holding of march fence type boundary walls can…

Answered Asked by Irene Oldfather Lab Lodged 2 Apr 2002

The question

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-15753 by Mr Jim Wallace on 11 June 2001, how the legal holding of march fence type boundary walls can, in terms of common sense and equity between adjacent parties, be ascribed to the rule of ownership in law to the mid-point only where the wall is constructed of linear single brick or bree'e-block with butted support along one side and capped by concrete cope.

The answer

Answered by Jim Wallace on 24 Apr 2002 · 22 days after it was lodged, on time

I refer the member to the answer given to question S1W-24572 on 23 April 2002.

In the Official Report

No contribution in the Official Report cites S1W-24669 by reference.