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Legal challenge delays crofters’ hostile buyout

A crucial challenge to the law that allows a crofting community to buy land against the owners’ wishes has been postponed, putting Scotland’s first hostile community buyout on hold.

Lawyers for Barry Lomas, owner of the 25,000-acre Pairc estate on Lewis, were due in the Court of Session yesterday to seek judicial review of the Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2003.