Scotland’s Constitutional Future – Lord Wallace’s speech at the University of Glasgow

January 21, 2012

Lord Wallace of Tankerness QC, the Advocate General for Scotland, delivered a speech at Glasgow University on Friday 20 January 2012, outlining why the Scottish Parliament cannot currently legislate for a referendum on independence at present.  Lord Wallace also set out how a legal, fair and decisive referendum can be achieved if the Scottish Government [...]

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Practical Law Company publishing Scots Law books online

January 16, 2012

A leading provider of legal know-how & market intelligence for lawyers, Practical Law Company (“PLC”) has just started to publish online various Scots law books previously only available in hard copy.  The list and publishing schedule is here: http://uk.practicallaw.com/about/browsebooks#scotslaw This is a welcome move in legal publishing as more and more great legal information is [...]

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Warranty of Authority in Scots Law: Cheshire Mortgage Corporation v Grandison & Ors

November 21, 2011

I am pleased to welcome Mr Anis Waiz, Solicitor and Partner at Manchester-based law firm, Mohindra Maini LLP, as he pens a very comprehensive guest blog post on the recent Outer House decision of Cheshire Mortgage Corporation Ltd & Anor v. Grandison & Ors [2011] CSOH 157 (23 September 2011). The below is an edited [...]

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ScotsLawBlog one of the Top 25 International & Foreign Law Blogs of 2011

November 17, 2011

I am delighted to announce that ScotsLawBlog has been named as one of LexisNexis’ Top 25 International & Foreign Law Blogs of 2011. For those other keen bloggers or for those considering blogging for the first time, it may be surprising to learn that ScotsLawBlog has only recently marked its 1 year anniversary. Such is the [...]

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ScotsLawBlog nominated: Top 25 International & Foreign Law Blogs of 2011

November 1, 2011

I am very pleased to announce that ScotsLawBlog has been nominated as a candidate for the Top 25 International & Foreign Law Blogs of 2011. And it’s great to see that this is not the only Scottish law blog listed: Absolvitor by Iain Nisbet is also nominated for the prize. Iain had outlined earlier this [...]

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Who then in law is my neighbour? Donoghue v Stevenson: The Paisley Snail Case

September 28, 2011

80 years on, Donoghue v Stevenson [1932] AC 562 remains one of the world’s most famous delict/tort cases. To celebrate the 80th anniversary of Lord Atkin’s judgment, there is to be an international conference on May 25 & 26, 2012. This should generate wide interest and indeed attendance from around the legal world. The conference [...]

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Ancient Scots Law lands a Catch-22

September 19, 2011

A 156-year old Scottish statute, the Burial Grounds (Scotland) Act 1855, has recently been used to block campaigners’ attempts to discover if British soldiers were buried in a secret mass grave, as the Sunday Express reports following Freedom of Information requests. Led by author John Steele and former Glasgow University organisation “Guard Archaeology”, the campaigners [...]

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Shereen Nanjiani interviews Richard Keen QC, Dean of the Faculty of Advocates

August 2, 2011

Quite a lot of the legal content and information that ScotsLawBlog shares can be found on the microblogging / microblawging social media network Twitter. But every now and then there is a post to be shared which merits more than just a retweet. This is one such post:- Scottish journalist Shereen Nanjiani’s blog recently featured [...]

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Glasgow Bar Association’s “Excellence in Advocacy” Seminar: Book Now

July 21, 2011

The Glasgow Bar Association is holding its “Excellence in Advocacy” weekend seminar at Airth Castle on 30th September / 1st October. With 9 hours CPD on offer and with distinguished Scottish legal experts, including Derek Ogg QC, Andrew Smith QC, Donald Findlay QC, Sheriff Rita Rae QC and Solicitor Advocates Maurice Smyth and Bob McCormick, [...]

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Oil Company Cairn Energy Secures Social Media Interdict Against Greenpeace

July 21, 2011

Cairn Energy has obtained an interdict against Greenpeace preventing them posting to Twitter or Facebook photos regarding their occupation of Cairn’s Edinburgh headquarters. In their press release, Greenpeace notes that In its latest move to cover up the truth about its Arctic drilling, Cairn Energy has obtained an extraordinary, wide-ranging legal interdict (injunction) against Greenpeace [...]

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