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Justice by Voicemail / Inbox ?
The Inner House of the Court of Session, in hearing an appeal against the decision of a Sheriff (who happens now to be the Sheriff-Principal of Glasgow and Strathkelvin) in Glasgow Sheriff Court, has...
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Scotland’s Supreme Court(s)?
Professor Neil Walker of the University of Edinburgh today (22 Jan 2010) published his report to the Scottish Government on the position of the new (UK) Supreme Court within the context of the current...
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More Socialist Defamation Litigation
I note that Frances Curran, former MSP and ex-colleague of Tommy Sheridan, has been unsucessful in a defamation claim against the Daily Record. Ms. Curran claimed that a Daily Record article in the...
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Lord Lovecraft of Arkham
HP Lovecraft I was playing around with the I Write Like … gizmo, and was wondering who the members of our judiciary write like. So, I started entering segments of judgements from Court of Session and...
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Eviction and Equalities in Edinburgh
I note from the pages of Regeneration + Renewal, that the City of Edinburgh Council are embroiled in a complex legal fight to evict a community organisation from premises in the Craigmillar area of the...
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judges.com
As you may have noted, Scotland’s judiciary have launched a new website, and a very nice one it is too: Judiciary of Scotland. One thing that I noticed was that it uses a .org.uk SLD (second level...
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Jazzing up the Judiciary
The latest web review for the Journal is now available online. In the magazine it bears the title “Judges for the people” and is all about the new Judiciary of Scotland website. An excerpt: “The site...
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Inner House finds against City of Edinburgh Council
An excellent decision by the Inner House on placing requests to special schools. A bench consisting of the Lord President, Lady Cosgrove and Lady Paton handed down a unanimous decision in the case of...
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Conflict of Interests
Image via Wikipedia Interesting. So, Rangers FC have lodged a complaint with the Scottish Legal Complaints Commission about an alleged conflict of interest in Levy & McRae (who once acted for...
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Focus on alcohol
Scotch Whiskey at the Pub (Photo credit: cobalt123) So, somewhat inevitably, the Scottish Government‘s minimum alcohol pricing laws have been challenged by the booze industry. Specifically, the Scotch...
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