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Syrian Refugees in Europe: what's happening?

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The following is the text of remarks made by our Dr Justin Borg-Barthet at a panel discussion organised by the Aberdeen University Yad’am Society on 6 February 2017.

Introductory remarks

To begin with, it is worth considering why we in Europe should be concerned about the Syrian refugee crisis.  Syria,…

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A Draft for the Digital Dilemma: The E-Evidence Convention

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THE FIRST CONVENTION ON E-EVIDENCE

The legal question of how to treat probative information generated or stored in electronic form has a relatively short history, but is becoming increasingly significant. Interest in the new possibilities and challenges regarding the introduction of electronic evidence at trial is growing, awareness is spreading…

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Australia's aversion to compulsory settlement for maritime boundary disputes comes back to bite it

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This is a guest post by Professor Andrew Serdy of the The Institute of Maritime Law at the University of Southampton. It builds on a guest lecture he gave to the Aberdeen University Centre for Energy Law. Robert Veal, Senior Research Assistant at the Institute of Maritime Law, contributed to…

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Rent Deposits - Filling in the Gaps

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Background

With all the major world-shaking events that are at present going on around us, it is easy to overlook the smaller things, which may, nevertheless, still have an effect upon us.  For example, on the Brexit/Trump scale of 0-10, the Tenancy Deposit Schemes (Scotland) Regulations 2011 might, on the…

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Aggravation by Religious Prejudice in Scotland: The Lord Advocate's Lacuna

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The Lord Advocate, the Rt Hon James Wolffe, QC, recently wrote to the Scottish Justice Secretary Michael Matheson following the conviction and sentencing of Tanveer Ahmed for the religiously-motivated murder of Asad Shah.  His correspondence referred to a ‘gap in the law’ (the Lord Advocate’s lacuna) and reflected ‘the earlier…

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Yeah but, no but: why the High Court was right and wrong in the Brexit case

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The High Court decision in Miller (the ‘Brexit case’) was essentially a public law case.  The judgment (PDF) addresses the question of whether the royal prerogative can be exercised to repeal vested statutory rights.  As is well known, the Court found in the negative.  In the Court’s view, therefore, notice…

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The debate about the justification of constitutional review: six theses

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Introduction

The justifiability of constitutional judicial review is one of the perplexing questions of constitutional theory. Every generation of constitutional lawyers has struggled with the issue without being able to provide knock-down arguments that would have settled the controversy. In the UK, the adversaries of the two positions are (for…

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