'A bit of a zigzag here but they're on line most of the time.'
'I think that's one of the best drive turns we've seen.'
'If they do well over the rest of the course they should
qualify for the Supreme…'
‘Three hundred and thirty-eight points scored - he's through
to the Supreme!’
Yes, I’ve been watching sheepdog trials on BBC Alba (in Gaelic with subtitles), reflecting that Lord Neuberger's
'Yup' could sound a bit like a Highland shepherd’s call.
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The Supreme Court is playing to a full house in
Edinburgh’s City Chambers, equipped with a sparkly new Instagram account and its
travelling livery. The thistle in the court’s emblem seems more
secure since the general election but the blue flax flower of Northern Ireland looks pale.
The home of Edinburgh City Council, City Chambers is an eighteenth
century building with Victorian-Gothic/Celtic-twilight décor incorporating earnest cod-mediaeval
scenes of Scottish history. The unavoidable Scott Monument looms outside.
There are a trio of local cases. Sadovska and another v Secretary of State for the Home Department considers
where the burden of proof lies in an alleged marriage of convenience.
Aberdeen City and
Shire Strategic Development Planning Authority v Elsick Development Company
Limited is an intricate examination of planning obligations, compliance and
jurisdiction.
Brown v The Scottish
Ministers and others asks if recalled extended sentence prisoners should
benefit from the duty under the European Convention on Human Rights to
facilitate rehabilitation and release. Counsel cites Lord Atkin’s question, "Who
then, in law, is my neighbour?",
a pillar of Donoghue v Stevenson known
to all law students, even the drop-outs.
We are close to
the cradle of this litigation with its trail of known unknowns - e.g. what was
the gender of May Donoghue’s friend? Was there actually a snail in the ginger beer bottle? The first hearing took place in the Court of Session just
over the road in 1929.
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