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Is the UK heading towards regulation of cryptoassets? Findings from the UK Cryptoassets Taskforce Final Report

There is no universally agreed definition of cryptoassets. Definitions vary from one jurisdiction to another and are revisited from time to time as the technology keeps evolving. A cryptoasset, as defined in the UK Cryptoassets Taskforce Report of October 2018, is “a cryptographically secured digital representation of value or contractual…

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Back to the Future? The Partial Reinstatement of the Crown Preference in Insolvency

Introduction

Deep within his budget speech delivered on 29 October 2018, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Philip Hammond, announced: “We will make HMRC a preferred creditor in business insolvencies to ensure that tax which has been collected on behalf of HMRC – is actually paid to HMRC.”

In the context…

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Criminal Cases in Civil Courts

This article analyses the probabilities of success for criminal cases brought to civil court. It briefly examines potentially influential factors such as corroboration and criminal intent, and the implications of cases like Coxen and Goodwillie.

Recent work relating hung jury findings to Scotland’s not proven votes and verdicts has given rise to the hypothesis that…

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Quest in EU Public Law: My Experience

I am a University of Aberdeen student in my third year of the LLB with English Law programme and I have had the opportunity to attend the founding conference of the European Association of Lawyers and Practitioners in Public Law and the Law of Territorial Administration (AEAPDP) in Brussels thanks…

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The U.S Offshore Wind Executive Summit: My Experience

As a current PhD student, here at the School of Law, I am in the process of completing my PhD on the U.K Health, Safety and Environmental Risk Governance Regime for Offshore Marine Renewables.   My recent blog post expands on aspects of my thesis, an earlier version of which…

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'Academic suggests abolishing juries in rape trials'

University of Aberdeen PhD candidate David Lorimer applies a quantitatively analytical approach to criminal law. He has written previously on jury analysis and the admissibility of prejudicial evidence (with a journal paper currently under peer review). The attached poster indicates some of the areas to which his quantitative methodology has…

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Choose your friends wisely, choose your co-tenants very carefully: joint tenants and the private residential tenancy

The Scottish Government guidance note Private Residential Tenancies: Information for Tenants (published 26 April 2017 ) correctly summarises the state of the law in relation to Private Residential Tenancies (PRTs) under the Private Housing (Tenancies) (Scotland) Act 2016 when it states

 “To end a joint tenancy, all the joint tenants…

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Brexit and Seeking an Article 50 Referral: Forthcoming Article by Robert Brett Taylor and Adelyn L M Wilson

There has been much speculation in recent months as to whether Article 50 TEU, the treaty provision that regulates the exit of a Member State from the European Union, would allow the UK to revoke its notification of withdrawal from the EU. However, the decision as to how to interpret…

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