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The Missing Crown Affair 23 Aug 2013 | 07:18 pm
In the newspapers this morning, there is much understandable outrage and calumny that, even if sentenced to the maximum term for his crimes, Bill Walker cannot be deprived of his seat in Holyrood afte...
Bill Walker's Prosecution: Zero Tolerance? 22 Aug 2013 | 05:01 pm
Just how many counts of domestic abuse does a man have to be charged with to face a jury in this country? Minutes ago, the newswires broke the news that Sheriff Katherine Mackie has convicted Bill W....
Juxtaposition of the Day 21 Aug 2013 | 06:56 pm
Kenny MacAskill, Cabinet Secretary for Justice, defending the SNP policy of forming single police force in Holyrood in February 2013: "This is a police service for all Scotland and it will be focuse....
In praise of ... short constitutions 19 Aug 2013 | 08:28 pm
Thomas Jefferson once observed "that the earth belongs in usufruct to the living". Usufruct is an old concept from Roman law, often known as life-rent in Scots law. The usufructary may make use of th...
Democratic deficit(s) 19 Aug 2013 | 02:36 pm
On episode thirty-two of the For A' That podcast this weekend, Michael and I were joined by Juliet Swann. An undecided voter on the question of Scottish independence, environmentalist-feminist Juliet ...
Devosomething: a dormouse aria... 18 Aug 2013 | 06:24 pm
Things we know: if asked, most Scots currently do not support independence, but a large percentage of folk are undecided. If polled, most Scots express positive views about Holyrood taking decisions -...
"Such a flimsy evidential basis..." 16 Aug 2013 | 05:03 pm
The Lord Chancellor, Chris Grayling, isn't keen on judicial review. He sees it as a costly forum for feckless litigants, whose enthusiasm for resorting to law in their relations with public agencies n...
Sandstone, blonde and red, for brick 13 Aug 2013 | 07:42 pm
Glasgow and Oxford contrasted: fewer straw boaters, fewer crushed-strawberry trews, sweat-stained linen suits, and old owlish characters, scudding by at speed on their bicycles, in spectacles seemingl...
Podcasting Sine Peat 5 Aug 2013 | 06:47 pm
I was conspicuous by my absence on this week's episode of the For A' That podcast. Deprived of my dulcet tones (I was putting in a last-minute audition to oust that cad Capaldi be the next Doctor Who...
Even if convicted, the law won't force Bill Walker from office... 2 Aug 2013 | 07:35 pm
Counsel made their closing speeches today in the trial of Bill Walker MSP, accused of a string of domestic assaults against his former partners and a step-daughter. According to the Scotsman report, t...
