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Research Seminar Series 2025/2026 "FWS v Scottish Ministers: Reconciling the Gender Recognition Act 2004 and the Equality Act 2010" - Professor Kenneth Norrie

Professor Norrie will speak on a recent decision of the Uk Supreme Court, in which it was asked to determine whether a person with a full gender recognition certificate (GRC) recognising that their gender is female is a “woman” for the purposes of the Equality Act 2010 (EA 2010). Building...

Webinar: Digital Assets in Scots Private Law: Innovating for the Future

You are cordially invited to the webinar of the research project ‘Digital Assets in Scots Private Law: Innovating for the Future’ funded by the Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE) and led by the University of Aberdeen with collaborators from the University of Edinburgh, University of Dundee, and CMS. Digital assets (eg Bitcoin),...

CPD: Boundary Disputes and Boundary Structures

CPD Speaker: Professor Roderick Paisley, Professor of Scots Law Roddy's chief research interests are the law of property, trusts and succession with a special interest in the law of servitudes. Abstract: This seminar will address aspects of the ownership and liability for repair of boundary structures in Scots law. The seminar presentation will...

CPD: Advocacy Skills for Scots Lawyers: How to Persuade

CPD Speaker: Professor Derek P Auchie. Derek is a former practising civil and criminal litigation lawyer and sits on a number of Scottish tribunals. He has done tribunal work for 19 years. Derek is also a practising arbitrator and mediator. He holds a Chair in Dispute Process Law at the University of...

Don't Worry About the Government- National Security and the Rule of Law by Ronald Clancy QC

The United Kingdom Government frequently invokes national security in a variety of ways which conflict with the public interest in open government, with the rights and duties of citizens and with the operation of the rule of law. In cases in which these conflicts have arisen the Courts have traditionally...

Concerning the Origins of the Scots Law Doctrine of Marriage by Cohabitation with Habit and Repute: Review post Requiem

In c.1990 the Scottish Law Commission opened a consultation on the reform of Scots family law, as part of which the question ‘Should marriage by cohabitation with habit and repute be retained or abolished?’ was posed. The question produced a very full consideration of the doctrine of marriage by cohabitation...

Sovereignty of the Westminster Parliament versus Sovereignty of the Scots People

This event was cancelled

The current political situation in Scotland is essentially a clash between two different types of sovereignty: the legal sovereignty of the Westminster Parliament versus the political sovereignty of the Scots People. This raises issues about which form or sovereignty will prevail which is arguably in turn a question of the...