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This week I had the pleasure of participating in an international symposium ‘Arctic Connections’, hosted by the Italian Society for International Organisation, in Rome. My talk, on the new Scotland’s Arctic policy, is summarised in this blog post.
On 23 September 2019, Scotland launched its Arctic policy, ‘Arctic Connections: Scotland’s…
This blog post is a follow-up to a previous post by Mitchell Skilling and Douglas Bain from June 2018.
The Upper Tier Tribunal for Scotland is the appellate court of the First-tier Tribunal for Scotland’s various Chambers, as established by the Tribunals (Scotland) Act 2014 (asp 10). Prior to April…
Addressing the conservation and sustainability of the oceans is an increasing need of society. The international community is responding to this through the ongoing negotiations, under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, for an internationally legally binding instrument on the conservation and sustainable use of marine biological…
This post is based on a research seminar held at the University of Aberdeen on 27 March 2019
Blockchain and other types of distributed ledger technology (DLT) have attracted significant interest and become a much-debated topic, particularly after it was realised that their potential goes far beyond underpinning cryptocurrencies. Their…
Origins and Project Outline
This blog post provides details of our current project examining floating charges in comparative perspective. In various ways, the project demonstrates the value of attending academic conferences with colleagues from other jurisdictions. At such events (especially Young Property Lawyers’ Forum (YPLF) conferences) we would frequently encounter…
On 20 March 2019, in an almost unanimous vote, the European People's Party (EPP) suspended Viktor Orbán’s Fidesz, the ruling party of Hungary, for violating the EPP’s rules and values, including democracy and the rule of law. According to the Economist Intelligence Unit that compiles a democracy index every year…
This blog post is a condensed version of an article that is available online at the website of the Journal of the Law Society of Scotland, where it is noted that it is hard to discern when a UK court is likely to allow piercing of the so-called “corporate veil”,…
This blog post builds on Prof Tina Soliman Hunter's post titled “Shell decommissioning of the Brent Platform - haven’t we been here before?” (18 April 2017). I suggest that it might be helpful to read that post prior to reading this one.
If we thought the Brent Spar incident in…
In this post, David Lorimer (PhD candidate) analyses a new Northern Irish report into reforming the law on serious sexual offences. Lorimer argues what is law for the accused should be law for the complainer.
The latest Gillen Report to the Criminal Justice Board on reform of the law on serious…
Should Gavin Williamson, former defence secretary, be prosecuted under the Official Secrets Act for leaking confidential information from the National Security Council? Or was he wrongly found guilty of leaking by a ‘kangaroo court’, as he has claimed?
This story – reported by the BBC here – brings together a range of important legal…
