Help Talking-up Scotland keep going Crowdfunder at: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-talking-up-scotland-keep-going Or by direct bank transfer to: JOHN WATSON ROBERTSON Sort Code – 08-91-04 Account – 12266421 By Jim Mennie On Great Bernera, a small island off Lewis with about 250 residents, a volunteer caféhas become the centre of an expensive disability-discrimination claim. The disputeturns on a contrast that is easy to miss beneath the headlines: the gap between anowner’s assertion that a rescue dog is a trained assistance animal and the standardsthat professional assistance-dog practice actually uses — task specificity, publicbehaviour, temperament, and an independent training record. That contrast is the spine of the case. The legal chronology is the … Continue reading Bernera and Claire Kellerman’s Misguided ‘Shaggy Dog’ Story