Scottish Court Stays Proceedings in a Business and Human Rights Dispute eapil.org/2023/12/12/sco…

Some thoughts on a fairly sensible decision from the UK Supreme Court earlier this month.

Judgment has been handed down this morning in the matter of Skatteforvaltningen (the Danish Customs and Tax Administration) (Respondent) v Solo Capital Partners LLP (in special administration) and others (Appellants) UKSC 2022/0066: supremecourt.uk/cases/uksc-202…

Important case confirming the restricted scope of Montgomery: if anyone would be interested in writing a case note for the Journal of Professional Negligence, do get in touch at [email protected] !

Extended deadline for submission of abstracts to present in the Conflict of Laws section at the SLS Conference in June 2023 at Oxford Brookes: now accepting submissions until 11:59pm on Friday 17th February. See tinyurl.com/conflictssls20… for general details. Happy to discuss!

Here's a link to the first view of my article on involuntariness pleas in negligence actions: bit.ly/3Cvrac8. And a 9-point summation of the argument here.🧵

From today, if you want to sue in Scotland, for defamation, you'll need to satisfy the tests set out in the Defamation & Malicious Publication (Scotland) Act '21. Here's what Bobby Lindsay & I have concluded after a review of similar legislation in English law.🧵

Lauren Clayton-Helm and I delighted to receive any proposals for a paper or a panel on conflict issues for the SLS in London 8-9th September - do drop a message if we can be any help!

V excited to see my article on legal mobilisation and worker-recuperated factories published as FirstView and Open Access in the International Journal of Law in Context.

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