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[This blog is an extract of a much fuller article on Frustration available online from the University of Aberdeen Centre for Scots Law]
Contract Law and Frustration
Certainty of performance is at the heart of contract law, as Lord Hope remarked
“…the maxim pacta sunt servanda [‘agreements must be…
This is the second in a series of posts being produced under the auspices of the Centre for Commercial Law in response to the coronavirus crisis. The first blog post is available here.
In the grip of a world pandemic of COVID-19 when scientists are racing to develop a cure,…
Following his thought-provoking talk delivered at the University of Aberdeen on 4 February 2020, Daniele Manzella, an international development lawyer, currently serving the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations, provides personal insights into the intersections of law and genome editing in agriculture. Daniele has advised several developing countries…
This is the first in a series of posts being produced under the auspices of the Centre for Commercial Law in response to the coronavirus crisis. These posts are being coordinated by Dr Burcu Yüksel Ripley, Co-Director of the Centre for Commercial Law.
This blog post has been written in…
On International Women’s Day, we look back at some of the most significant achievements of females throughout the history of our School of Law, and the changing landscape over the decades.
Early Graduates of our School
Elizabeth Barnett was the first female graduate of the School who went on…
Professor Ken Reid notes in his Property (Stair Memorial Encyclopaedia vol. 18) at para 277 that ‘[t]enements or 'lands' were in widespread use in Scotland as early as the sixteenth century. But despite this long history they are little discussed by juristic writers before Hume and Bell and there are…
Dr Douglas Bain and Mitch Skilling here unpick an interesting tenants’ notice clause in a Private Residential Tenancy (PRT) under the Private Housing (Tenancies) (Scotland) Act 2016 and reach some broader conclusions.
In any university town, students will make up a large part of the private rented sector’s consumer pool.…
An experienced risk consultant once told me that reporting on uncertain statistical analysis could end up being 'a game of smoke and mirrors'. During another project, a highly qualified computer science researcher advised me to always do 'a pencil and paper exercise' on expected inputs and outputs before embarking upon…
This week I had the pleasure of participating in an international symposium ‘Arctic Connections’, hosted by the Italian Society for International Organisation, in Rome. My talk, on the new Scotland’s Arctic policy, is summarised in this blog post.
On 23 September 2019, Scotland launched its Arctic policy, ‘Arctic Connections: Scotland’s…
This blog post is a follow-up to a previous post by Mitchell Skilling and Douglas Bain from June 2018.
The Upper Tier Tribunal for Scotland is the appellate court of the First-tier Tribunal for Scotland’s various Chambers, as established by the Tribunals (Scotland) Act 2014 (asp 10). Prior to April…
