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(5th December 2012)
Robin Churchill spoke at two conferences in November to mark the 30th anniversary of the adoption of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. On 15 November he gave a paper at a conference in Porto, Portugal on the impact of fisheries on the marine environment; and on 22 November he gave a paper at a conference in Belfast on the exploitation of the outer continental shelf.
(31st October 2012)
On 3 October Prof McEleavy gave the annual Fresco Lecture in European Law at the Law Faculty of the University of Genoa. His paper was titled: “The European Union and the Abduction of Children Between Member States: Past, Present and Future”.
(30th October 2012)
Dr Nengye Liu will give a lecture on “Is the EU’s Membership of the International Maritime Organization a Good Idea” on Tuesday 30th October between 1 and 2 pm in room 3.08 of the Scrymgeour Building. Dr Liu has applied for a Marie Curie Fellowship to come to work at the Law School. In the meantime he is currently visiting the Law School and has kindly offered to give a seminar during his visit. All are welcome to attend.
(25th October 2012)
Aude Fiorini was invited by the ERA (Academy of European Law) to deliver a paper on the Priorities in European Family Law at a workshop on CROSS-BORDER DIVORCE AND MAINTENANCE which was organised in Brussels on 24-26 October 2012 on behalf of the European Commission.
(11th October 2012)
Professor Alan Miller, Scottish Human Rights Commission to deliver a lecture to Public Law students on Thursday 11th October at 10am in lecture theatre Fulton Building F20.
The Scottish Human Rights Commission was established by an Act of the Scottish Parliament and started work in 2008. The Commission is independent of the Scottish and UK Governments, and the Scottish and Westminster Parliaments. The Commission has a vision of a modern, outward-looking and fairer Scotland, where human dignity, equality and participation are guaranteed for all. We are an accountable public body, and regularly report on our progress, finance and audit. The Commission is a national human rights institution, and we have an international role in promoting and protecting human rights
This lecture is free and all students are welcome!!
(4th October 2012)
On October 4, 2012 Andrea Ross presented a paper entitled 'Law and Leadership for Sustainable Development' at the United Kingdom Environmental Lawyers Association (Scotland) Conference in Edinburgh which examined whether a sufficient number of powerful institutional and statutory mechanisms exist in the UK, Scotland and Wales to challenge unsustainable leadership and support more sustainable leadership among our current political leaders.
(1st October 2012)
Aude Fiorini and Peter McEleavy, along with Peter Beaton (former Head of the International Division of the Scottish Justice Dept), ran a training seminar for Albanian judges and civil servants in Tirana 27-28 September on European private international law. The seminar was organised by the TAIEX office of the Directorate-General Enlargement of the European Commission.
(1st October 2012)
The Scottish Constitutional Futures Forum is an initiative of academics from five Scottish Law Schools- those of the Universities of Aberdeen, Dundee, Edinburgh, Glasgow and Strathclyde.
It has been set up to address the wide range of issues bearing upon the constitutional choice facing the people of Scotland today. We have a unique opportunity to debate and decide Scotland’s constitutional future in a manner that is inclusive, well-informed and open-minded. But for this to happen we need to ensure the circulation of information and the discussion of ideas is not confined to the official campaigns and their party political backers. Our Forum plans to contribute to this wider process.
Over the next two years we will host regular discussions of the key constitutional questions which arise. Is the referendum the right way to proceed? Have we correctly identified the key constitutional options? What happens to defence, currency, social citizenship or human rights under independence or enhanced devolution? What new or amended political institutions - parliamentary, executive or judicial - would we need in a constitutionally renewed Scotland? We will debate these and many other questions in a way which draws upon comparative expertise and experience, in so doing involving and engaging with a wide range of Scottish groups and interests.”
The SCFF website also provides resources for those seeking to be informed about the ongoing constitutional debate, and, via our blog, up-to-date commentary on the unfolding issues. Please visit www.scottishconstitutionalfutures.org for details of forthcoming events and to read the opening blog post by Professor Alan Page from the University of Dundee.
The founding members of the forum are Professor Paul Beaumont, University of Aberdeen, Professor Aileen McHarg, University of Strathclyde, Professor Alan Page from the University of Dundee , Professor Tom Mullen, University of Glasgow, and Professors Christine Bell , Stephen Tierney and Neil Walker, all of the University of Edinburgh.
Professor Neil Walker from the University of Edinburgh said: ‘This is an exciting and timely initiative that we are very pleased to be involved in. We hope it will make a contribution to the debate, as it is important that Universities bring their particular resources and knowledge to bear on this crucial issue that, whatever the result, will dominate and shape the politics of Scotland's future for some time to come.’
Professor Aileen McHarg from the University of Strathclyde added: ‘We think that the Scottish universities and the Law schools in particular, have an important role in ensuring that our debate is worthy of the constitutional moment. We welcome the participation of all who share our commitment to an open and non-partisan process.’
Professor Paul Beaumont from the University of Aberdeen said: ‘We don't want the debate to occur only in the central belt and we will be hosting two public events in Aberdeen on two key areas where expert analysis will help voters to make an informed decision in the independence referendum in 2014: first, what status would an independent Scotland have in the European Union and second, what was the constitutional nature of Scotland before it became part of the United Kingdom in 1707 and why did the Union take place?’
Professor Tom Mullen, University of Glasgow said: ‘It is crucial that the people of Scotland are able to make an informed choice about how they will be governed in future. There is a real need for a forum in which information can be provided and the key constitutional and legal issues can be discussed free from party politics. The SCFF will meet that need.’
Editorial Notes:
(27th September 2012)
Prof McEleavy reinforced ties between Dundee Law School and Kazakhstan during a visit to the Law School at KIMEP University, Almaty. As well as meeting with the Dean and staff members, he met with students involved in KIMEP’s Law Clinic. He also participated in a conference for Central Asian universities on the Bologna Process.
Prof McEleavy was able to catch up with recent LLM alumni: Gaukhar Kudaibergenova; Zhanat Nurmagambetov and Zhannat Peretyatkina.
(19th September 2012)
Legal experts from across the UK and France will gather in Dundee this week for a major event examining issues around Law and Mental Health.
The 2012 Colloque of the Franco-British Lawyers' Society is being hosted by the University of Dundee Law School. Around 50 legal experts are expected to attend the event.
Among the issues being discussed are:
- Dealing with Adult Incapacity
- Issues associated with compulsory mental health treatment
- Dealing with Mentally Disordered offenders
"We are delighted to be welcoming some of the most eminent voices in the field of Law and Mental Health to Dundee," said Stuart Cross, from University of Dundee Law School.
"There are significant issues relating to how the law deals with matters related to mental health and this event will gather people not just from the legal fraternity but some of those dealing directly with mental health issues."
The speakers at the event include:
- Mme Nicole Questiaux, membre de Conseil D'Etat honorarire
- Dr. Joe Morrow, President of the Mental Health Tribunal, Scotland
- District Judge Gordon Ashton, Nominated Judge of the Court of Protection
- Adrian Ward, Senior Partner, Turnbull & Ward Solicitors
- Mungo Bovey QC, Advocate
- Professor Tom Fahy, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College, London
- H.H. Judge Robert Atherton, Manchester Crown Court
- M. Frederic Pansier, Chargé d'enseignement á Paris I (Pantheon Sorbonne)
- Michael Potter, Barrister-at-law, Northern Ireland
The event begins with a Civic Reception at Dundee City Chambers at 6.30pm on Thursday September 20th, followed by the Colloque itself at the Dalhousie Building, University of Dundee, throughout Friday September 21st.
Notes to Editors
The Franco-British Lawyers Society was founded in 1995. There are three sections - one for France, one for England, Wales and Northern Ireland and one for Scotland.
The Society is open to all lawyers, including members of the Judiciary, academics, advocates,barristers and solicitors in private practice or as inhouse solicitors for public authorities, or corporate or corporate or commercial companies an enterprises. The aims of the Society are to promote communication between the different jurisdictions of the member countries and to stimulate debate on comparative law and ideas about legal practice and procedures in the separate systems, including finding practical ways to resolve the incompatibilties which can arise for the different jurisdictions.
(18th September 2012)
As Convener of its Environmental Law Section, Prof. Colin Reid has played a major part at the annual conference of the Society of Legal Scholars, held in Bristol in September 2012. He organised and chaired the meetings of the Environmental stream, including a presentation by the Law Commission on two of its current projects, on Wildlife Crime and Conservation Covenants.
(6th September 2012)
Liz Comerford, Deputy Director of the Diploma in Professional Legal Practice, chaired the Law Society of Scotland’s Property Law Conference
held in Aberdeen on 6 September.
She also presented a paper entitled “Mandatory Separate Representation of Lenders – the issues” on the Law Society’s proposals for separate legal representation in certain conveyancing transactions which is of major concern for the legal profession.
(3rd September 2012)
On 3 September Professor Fiona Raitt presented on the subject of ‘The role of the judge when expert scientific evidence is led’ at a Judicial Studies Seminar in Glasgow.
Other presentations were provided by the Rt Hon Sir Anthony Campbell - The Fingerprint Inquiry: The evidential status of fingerprint evidence’; Andrew Rennison, Forensic Science Regulator for the UK - ‘Regulating Forensic Science: Issues for Judges’; and Professor Colin Aitken, 'Interpretation of Scientific Evidence’.
(30th August 2012)
Robin Churchill gave a presentation on “An Independent Scotland: Issues of Iternational Law” at the Annual Conference of the Scottish Public Law Group on 11 June
(30th August 2012)
Robin Churchill has recently been awarded the 2011 Mangone Prize by the International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law for what the judges described as his “outstanding contributions to IJMCL – in particular for his regular and outstanding Annual Survey of Dispute Settlement under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, which has become a major feature of the journal.”
(6th August 2012)
(30th July 2012)
Aude Fiorini was invited by the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation to address judges, child protection officers and Central Authority personnel during a two-day seminar held in Moscow on 23-24 July 2012 on the application of the 1980 Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction in Russia.
(30th July 2012)
Eamon Keane, Student Director of the Law School Clinic and Recent LLB Graduate has presented a lecture to American Law Students who are studying at Downing College at the University of Cambridge this summer. Eamon spoke to law students from the Universities' of Tennessee, Mississipi-Fayetteville, Nebraska and Arkansas about legal education in the United Kingdom and the unique nature of the Scottish legal system and profession.
(13th July 2012)
On 2nd July Elizabeth Kirk delivered a paper entitled “Meeting at the Crossroads: Engaging New Actors in the Development of Marine Environmental Governance” and on 3rd July she delivered a paper entitled “Choosing New Paths at Regulatory Crossroads: Helping Agencies to Respond to Change” which was also broadcast as a live webcast.
Both papers were delivered at the IUCN Academy of Environmental Law 10th Annual Colloquium “Global Environmental Law at a Crossroads” held at the University of Maryland, Baltimore 1st-5th July.
(12th July 2012)
One of this year’s LLB graduates, Sean Whittaker, is spending some weeks this summer working as a research assistant in the School of Law.
He will be involved in initial research on the scope of the Environmental Information Regulations, in particular whether the public can get access to information when functions in relation to infrastructure (transport, water, etc.) are not the direct responsibility of public bodies but are in the hands of private companies or trusts.
He is working with Professors Colin Reid, Andrea Ross and Kevin Dunion (formerly Scottish Information Commissioner) and this work is preliminary to further investigations by the Centre for Freedom of Information, a joint venture between the Dundee Law School and the Scottish Information Commissioner.
(12th July 2012)
The Law School has released major findings on the rights of bereaved family members to information gathered during investigations into fatal road collisions.
The research was commissioned by
SCID, Scotland’s Campaign against Irresponsible Drivers. One of the key findings is that bereaved family members have no legal right to be given access to investigation results into a fatal road collision.
The report recommends the establishment of an independent multi-disciplinary road collision investigation body and the granting of legal rights to the family of a road death victim to obtain copies of investigation reports.
The report was presented to Jenny Mara MSP on 12th July.
(5th July 2012)
Eamon Keane, the Student Director of the Dundee Student Law Clinic, will be presenting a paper entitled “Innovative Leadership Arrangements and Legal Clinical Structure; Time to put the Cart before the Horse?” at the 10th International Clinical Legal Education Conference to be held at Northumbria University.
The paper will examine the effects of differing leadership models on law clinical service delivery. Drawing on the experience of those involved in establishing the student law clinic at Dundee, Eamon will argue that student centric leadership models are better placed to improve access to justice in local communities.
The conference brings together leading voices in clinical legal education from a variety of international jurisdictions such as Australia, China, South Africa and the United States of America.
(28th June 2012)
Dundee graduate Conor Kerr is this year’s winner of the Colin Donald Environmental Law Prize. The prize gives Conor the opportunity to work with the prize sponsors, the National Trust for Scotland and law firm Pinsent Masons (formerly McGrigors), allowing him to see the work of environmental law in practice.
Conor, who completed his LLB this summer, is from Belfast and hopes to qualify as a solicitor in Northern Ireland. He won the prize with an essay analysing a recent court decision that neighbours affected by smells from a waste site could not sue the operators for nuisance since the site was operating within the terms of its licence.
(21st June 2012)
On 19 June, the evening before his Graduation in Caird Hall, Honorary Graduate, Justice Albie Sachs delivered a stunning public lecture at the University to an audience of 300.
His lecture ranged over his experiences of opposing the former apartheid regime in South Africa, his contribution to drafting the Constitution for a free and democratic South Africa and his commitment to post-conflict sustainable justice.
Following the lecture Albie signed copies of two of his recent books: The Soft Vengeance of a Freedom Fighter and The Strange Alchemy of Life and Law.
(21st June 2012)
On 19 June, Justice Albie Sachs, one of this year’s Honorary Graduates of the University of Dundee, met Law Clinic students and School staff for an informal lunch and to discuss the role of clinics in social justice and human rights.
Later in the day he delivered a stunning public lecture to an audience of nearly 300 discussing ideas from his book The Soft Vengeance of a Freedom Fighter.
(19th June 2012)
University of Dundee Honorary Graduate 2012
6pm, Dalhousie Building, University of Dundee, DD1 5EN
On April 7, 1988, Albie Sachs, a South African activist, lawyer and leading member of the ANC , was car-bombed in Mozambique by agents of South Africa’s security forces. His right arm was blown off and he lost the sight of one eye. After the bombing, he devoted himself to the preparations for a new democratic constitution for South Africa. In this lecture, Albie Sachs will give a gripping insider’s view of the major public events spanning his career - the election of Nelson Mandela, his appointment as judge in the new Constitutional Court of South Africa, and the establishment of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, in which he played a major role.
Albie Sachs is a remarkable man of great spirit, and his enormous optimism, commitment to social justice, and joyous wonder at the life that surrounds him make this an event not to be missed.
A book signing and drinks reception will follow the lecture. Please not that overflow theatres may be in use and the main lecture theatre is filled on a first come, first seated basis.
(15th June 2012)
The Law School's innovative Joint LLM Programmes in International Commercial Law with the University of Cergy-Pontoise, and in Comparative and European Private International Law with the University of Toulouse I, have been featured in the University of Dundee's annual magazine "The Bridge".
(13th June 2012)
Ross Macdonald gave a paper at the biennial SCOLAR research conference in Edinburgh on the 8th of June 2012.
His paper, entitled "Succession law in the Ius Commune: current scholarship and present-day importance", highlighted the state of research into the historical development of succession law across Europe with a view to its harmonisation.
(12th June 2012)
Following the interviews for the position of Deputy Director of the Diploma, Liz Comerford, solicitor, has been appointed.
Liz has extensive experience of practice, including as a partner in Thorntons LLP.
She has previously made contributions to the LLB in the area of property and commercial law, and was a module organiser for two modules on the Diploma in Professional Legal Practice this past session.
Liz takes up her post in August.
(12th June 2012)
Dundee graduates Michael Jones QC and David Burns QC have been appointed as Senators of the College of Justice and will take up their posts later in 2012.
They join Lords Turnbull and Malcolm and Lady Clark as fomer Dundee staff or graduates who are now serving Senators.
(11th June 2012)
Professor Colin Reid has delivered one of the keynote papers at an international workshop on Regulatory and Institutional Frameworks for Markets for Ecosystem Services. The workshop was held in early June at the University of Surrey which organised it jointly with the George Washington Law School in the USA, involving participants from academia and practice in several disciplines and five continents.
Professor Reid’s paper was entitled: “Between Priceless and Worthless – challenges in using market mechanisms for conserving biodiversity”.
(11th June 2012)
On 7 June
Professor Fiona Raitt gave a paper entitled “Prosecutorial Duties, Sexual Offences and the Complainer's Locus". The seminar, in honour of Sir Gerald Gordon Seminar, has become an annual event attended by academics, solicitors, and members of the Faculty of Advocates.
(11th June 2012)
On 28-29 May,
Professor Fiona Raitt and
Professor Pamela Ferguson, two of the organisers of the research programme entitled Re-thinking Responses to Rape, participated in the second workshop in the programme series held in Glasgow at the Scottish Universities Insight Institute. The workshop focussed on alternative responses to rape beyond those traditionally associated with the criminal justice process. These included responses centred on forms of restorative justice, innovative justice and parallel justice.
In the first of three workshops, held in late April, the programme considered recent legal reforms.
The third and final workshop will be held in August. It will concentrate on perspectives from health professionals and experiences of successful reform in other jurisdictions.
(8th June 2012)
On 7 June
Professor Peter McEleavy delivered a paper titled “Mutual Trust, Distrust and Human Rights – The Movement of Children in Europe” and facilitated a workshop at the Judicial Studies Committee Training Day on European Law.
The conference was attended by the Senators of the College of Justice, as well as the Rt Hon Beverley McLachlin, Chief Justice of Canada and the Rt Hon Lord Neuberger of Abbotsbury, MR.
(8th June 2012)
Eamon Keane,
Law Clinic Student Director, representing Dundee University, took part in the launch on 7 June of a new national forum of law clinics. The launch took place at a pro bono conference hosted by the University of the West of Scotland where participants were addressed by former Lord Advocate Dame Elish Angiolini QC.
(23rd May 2012)
Rory Newton, a 4th year Law student has been awarded the Carnegie Vacation Scholarship.
He will be undertaking a research project which will compare aspects of Scottish and English laws of criminal evidence.
(22nd May 2012)
Dundee Law School has ranked 1st in Scotland and 10th in the UK in the 2013 Guardian University Guide.
This success follows on closely from being ranked 7th in the UK by the Times.
(16th May 2012)
The Law School is delighted to announce Andrea Ross has been promoted to a personal Chair, and the appointment of Dr Bo Xie and Dr Jacques Hartmann as lecturers.
(11th May 2012)
In early May Prof.
Colin Reid visited the Environmental Law Unit at the University of the West of England in Bristol.
As well as giving a talk about environmental law research, he discussed with staff the potentially ground-breaking cases that they are helping local residents to take in response to a range of threats to their local environment.
(25th April 2012)
Elizabeth Kirk presented a paper at the ILA British Branch Annual Conference in Nottingham on 21st April.
Her paper, entitled "Marine Environmental Security and Adaptability in Marine Governance" highlighted the role of advocacy coalitions and the impact their use of multi-dimensional policy networks has on the ability of regimes to respond to threats to marine environmental security.
(23rd April 2012)
The Governing Law of Companies in EU Law by Dr Justin Borg-Barthet is the first monograph in ten years on the private international law of companies in the European Union. The book is published in Hart Publishing’s ‘Studies in Private International Law’ series. Further details are available at:
The following is an extract from the preface by the series editors, Prof Paul Beaumont and Prof Jonathan Harris:
‘Private international law of companies is an important topic that is in danger of being neglected by private international lawyers – witness its omission from the latest edition of Cheshire, North and Fawcett, Private International Law 14th edn (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2008) by James Fawcett and Janeen Carruthers. Justin Borg-Barthet’s book helps to avoid this neglect. It does so not by writing a doctrinal work but rather by writing a more theoretical, yet practical, book...This book should be of interest to a wide range of people. Apart from specialists in private international law it should be read by company lawyers, those with an interest in corporate governance, and European Union lawyers and policy makers with an interest in freedom of establishment, civil justice, the internal market and company law.’
(28th March 2012)
Two students from Dundee Law School competed in London in the finals of a national mooting competition. The semi-finals and final of the UK Environmental Law Association Moot are being heard before UKELA’s President, Lord Carnwath from the Supreme Court along with Prof. Mark Poustie (Strathclyde) and a leading barrister from No. 5 Chambers.
Qualification was based on the strengths of the skeleton arguments prepared for both sides of a dispute between the Environment Agency and a waste operator.
The Dundee team’s written submissions were prepared by Charles Oliver and Sarah High, who unfortunately has had to withdraw, with Carrie-Ellen Mitchell taking over for the argument in person and although they did not get into the final their success is all the more notable since they are all in their first year of legal studies.
(14th March 2012)
Dr Lennon’s research assesses how suspicionless counter-terrorist stop and search powers in the USA and UK operate, what objectives such powers serve and whether they can adhere to the normative requirements of human rights and accountability.
It compares the UK power to stop and search under the Terrorist Act 2000, section 44 and the New York Police Department’s (NYPD’s) Container Inspection Program (‘the Inspection Program’). This funding is towards empirical research in New York.
(6th March 2012)
Kirsteen Shields was invited to speak at an international seminar on ‘The World Between Crisis and Change’. Kirsteen’s paper was entitled ‘Global Justice Disembedded’ and discussed the relevance of Polanyi‘s ‘The Great Transformation’ for modern day movements such as the Occupy Movement. The event was jointly organised by the Karl Polanyi Institute of Political Economy and the EMES European Research Network.
The seminar took place at the Conservatoire national des arts et métiers (Cnam) in Paris (France) on 15-16 February 2012.
(5th March 2012)
During Reading Week 19 – 25 February, Prof McEleavy and Ms Fiorini accompanied students on the Joint LLM in Comparative and European Private International Law to the University of Passau in Lower Bavaria for a private international law colloquium.
Dundee and Passau staff and researchers gave papers on a broad range of private international law topics:
- International Jurisdiction in European Insolvency Law (Fehrenbach)
- Choice of Court Agreements (Eichel)
- The European Forum Necessitatis (Hau)
- Full Faith and Credit in Europe? Mutual Recognition in the EU and the USA (Geier)
- Corruption in Private International Law (Kalin)
- The Initial Question in European Private International Law (Solomon)
- Mixedness and the Codification of European Private International Law (Fiorini)
- The 1980 Hague Convention and the European Court of Human Rights (McEleavy)
- The Challenges and Perils of Comparative Law Research for Students (Fiorini)
- Brussels IIa and Public Law Proceedings: Should the EU follow the German Model? (McEleavy)
The Joint LLM students gave group presentations on topics they have been considering as part of their studies in Dundee. Students from the International Family Law class spoke on Habitual Residence, whilst students from the Private International Law (Common Law Perspectives) class examined the issue of Forum Non Conveniens.
The very successful visit, which yielded many interesting debates on the future of European private international law, also included a visit to the local regional court, the Landgericht Passau, which was hosted by the President of the Court, Prof. Dr. Michael Huber.
Many thanks are due to Prof. Dr. Hau, Prof. Dr. Solomon and all the Passau team for their warm and very generous welcome.
(5th March 2012)
The Scottish Affairs Select Committee has launched an inquiry into the Referendum on Separation for Scotland. Professor Alan Page gave oral evidence at the session on 27 February which discussed referendum legalities.
The session covered the question of what the
Scottish Parliament powers are, how they might be challenged, what the options for amending them are etc.
(5th March 2012)
Professor Alan Page spoke at the University of Glasgow on 27 January at a one-day workshop on Scotland’s Constitutional Future.
He delivered a session entitled “Legal dimensions of economic and financial matters” along with
Professor David Heald from the University of Aberdeen Business School.
(2nd March 2012)
The Charities and Trustee Investment (Scotland) Act 2005 set up a new system for regulating Scottish charities, with a new regulator, OSCR (Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator), based here in Dundee.
The 2005 Act followed a full review of the previous legislation, the Dundee Law School’s Charity Law Research Unit (CLRU) contributing government-commissioned reports with recommendations for reform. Stuart Cross and Patrick Ford were members of the original CLRU team, and were subsequently involved in official consultations on the detail of the Act and its implementation.
Most recently they served on the Scottish Government’s Working Group on the Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation (or SCIO), a new dedicated legal form for charities which came on stream in April of last year. With the ten-year anniversary of the 2005 Act in sight, they have now been appointed to the Charity Law sub-committee of the Law Society of Scotland’s Law Reform Committee.
While there is a wide consensus that the 2005 Act arrangements have worked well, the world of charities is changing rapidly in difficult economic times, and Stuart and Patrick look forward to contributing to the sub-committee’s on-going review of the legal framework within which charities must meet the challenges ahead.
(1st March 2012)
Elizabeth Kirk visited Tromso Law School in the week of 20th February. Whilst there she gave lectures to LLM students and delivered a research seminar for staff.
(21st February 2012)
Room 4.01, level 4 Floor, Scrymgeour Building, Park Place, University of Dundee
3.00 pm (registration 2.30 pm, foyer area)
5.00 – 7.00 pm (wine reception, foyer area)
Speakers:
- Professor Alan Page, Dean of the School of Law, Professor of Public Law and Centre Co-Director
Welcome and general introduction from the Chair
- Kevin Dunion, Scottish Information Commissioner’s valedictory lecture to the Centre, reflecting on the key themes of his Special Report to the Scottish Parliament
Freedom of Information in Scotland: a position of strength, but scope for improvement?
- Panel responses to the presentation. Panel includes:Karen Williams (Grampian Police and ACPOS), Rosalind McInnes (Principal Solicitor, BBC Scotland)
- Followed by audience discussion
If you would like to attend please download the booking form by clicking on the pdf below and email to
centrefoi@dundee.ac.uk by Friday 17th February 2012.
(1st February 2012)
Dr Måns Jacobsson, former Director of the International Oil Pollution Compensation Fund will be giving a guest lecture to students entitled 'The International Regime for Compensation for Tanker Oil Spills'.
It will take place in Dalhousie 2F13 on 1st February 2012 between 11am-1pm.
All are welcome to attend.
(16th January 2012)
Diploma in Professional Legal Practice students Emma Johnson and Hannah Sproat held their own in a closely fought competition against six other teams from Universities of Aberdeen; Edinburgh; Glasgow; Stirling; RGU and Strathclyde and should be congratulated for their hard work and determination.
The winners, Andrew Gow and Rachel McKay, Glasgow University, will go forward to the International Competition to be held at Education Centre, law School, Law Society of Ireland, Blackhall Place, Dublin form Wednesday, 18th April to Saturday, 21st April 2012.
We join in wishing them the best of luck.
Grateful thanks are also extended to Terry Vickers, Jan Clark, Grace Gourlay, Linda O’Donnell and Margaret Spalding who played the part of the injured 'client'. They all should re-consider a career on the stage! Thanks too, to all the judges and team coaches, who gave generously of their time to make the event such a success.
(6th January 2012)
Marjorie Mantle's Mediation: A Practical Guide provides fundamental information, practical tips and case studies which show useful examples of the application of mediation principles in practice. The contents include the key principles of Mediation; how to "sell" the concept of mediation; a guide to choosing the right mediator; the role of the Legal Practitioner and a whole host of other essential aspects of mediation.
The Arbitration (Scotland) Act 2010 has placed Scotland at the forefront of modern arbitration law and procedure.The Act improves the range of options for domestic dispute resolution and has given Scotland the chance to establish itself as a centre for cross-border and international arbitration
The
Scottish Arbitration Handbook, co-authored by David Parratt, is an accessible and practical guide to the new law. It combines annotation of the 2010 Act and the new procedural rules with informed commentary on how the legislation is likely to affect the conduct of arbitration. The Scottish Arbitration Handbook provides an invaluable source of information and guidance to all those considering arbitration in Scotland.
New Pathway for 3 year LL.B Students
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