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The forthcoming Christmas and New Year celebrations usually include an abundance of food and drink. Such abundance is understandable at a time associated with hospitality, but it can also lead to waste. According to the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations, food waste (and…

In this blog post, Malcolm Combe (a senior lecturer in the School) and Malcolm Rudd (a graduate of the University of Aberdeen and recent research assistant, supported by the Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland) discuss the non-reform of the law of inheritance as it applies to land in…

There is no universally agreed definition of cryptoassets. Definitions vary from one jurisdiction to another and are revisited from time to time as the technology keeps evolving. A cryptoasset, as defined in the UK Cryptoassets Taskforce Report of October 2018, is “a cryptographically secured digital representation of value or contractual…

Introduction

Deep within his budget speech delivered on 29 October 2018, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Philip Hammond, announced: “We will make HMRC a preferred creditor in business insolvencies to ensure that tax which has been collected on behalf of HMRC – is actually paid to HMRC.”

In the context…

This article analyses the probabilities of success for criminal cases brought to civil court. It briefly examines potentially influential factors such as corroboration and criminal intent, and the implications of cases like Coxen and Goodwillie.

Recent work relating hung jury findings to Scotland’s not proven votes and verdicts has given rise to the hypothesis that…

I am a University of Aberdeen student in my third year of the LLB with English Law programme and I have had the opportunity to attend the founding conference of the European Association of Lawyers and Practitioners in Public Law and the Law of Territorial Administration (AEAPDP) in Brussels thanks…

As a current PhD student, here at the School of Law, I am in the process of completing my PhD on the U.K Health, Safety and Environmental Risk Governance Regime for Offshore Marine Renewables.   My recent blog post expands on aspects of my thesis, an earlier version of which…

A number of our students have been involved in the annual Staff v Student Moot over successive years. Hear their perspective on the event and how this has developed during their involvement in the moot.

Neil

This year’s highly anticipated Staff v Student moot has been described as “the best…

University of Aberdeen PhD candidate David Lorimer applies a quantitatively analytical approach to criminal law. He has written previously on jury analysis and the admissibility of prejudicial evidence (with a journal paper currently under peer review). The attached poster indicates some of the areas to which his quantitative methodology has…

The Scottish Government guidance note Private Residential Tenancies: Information for Tenants (published 26 April 2017 ) correctly summarises the state of the law in relation to Private Residential Tenancies (PRTs) under the Private Housing (Tenancies) (Scotland) Act 2016 when it states

 “To end a joint tenancy, all the joint tenants…