Tag: scotland

  • Brian Inkster in Toronto

    Am at a legal innovation roundtable sponsored by Thomson Reuters, in TR’s building, Bay St, downtown Toronto, at the invitation of Monica Goyal, an innovator and practitioner in Toronto who works with Osgoode and is the founder of Aluvion.  Brian Inkster is the guest speaker, introduced by Mitch Kowalski, a chapter in whose book The Great…

  • Indyref 2

    Well, I’ve spent the nine hours or so of this day’s morning here in Glasgow watching Europe beginning to unravel.  Desperately sad. Huge implications for Scotland.  I voted remain, along with the rest of Scotland, and in 2014 voted yes in indyref but was in the minority then.  See this blog post and this article. …

  • The provincial, the global and the inner émigré

    About a month ago I was out at Murrumbateman, visiting a couple of colleagues.   Craig and Skye invited some of us from Legal Workshop out to their fine house for dinner and a performance of Macbeth – in a winery, Shaws.  Think Birnam Wood translated to a vineyard.  The tiny touring company chose well.  Macbeth is…

  • The journey to Scotland

    On 18 September Scotland will go to the polls to decide its future.  We will be asked the question, ‘Should Scotland be an independent country?’  If there is a majority vote in favour, Scotland will gain independence from UK.  How should we vote?  Here’s my view of the landscape…

  • What will enhance legal education in Scotland?

    Was live-blogging Enhancing Legal Education in Scotland, a legal ed conference hosted by UKCLE last week — kudos to Julian Webb and his team for organising it, for it's difficult to bring together the disparate elements of Scots legal education — but my own afternoon session and then many other thoughts intervened, so I've delayed…