Hector MacQueen
@MacqueenHector
Emeritus law professor also a historian, twitcher, and social networker, once a law reformer. RTs indicate agreement or amusement or amazement - or not.
As ever, tales of domestic bliss and general happiness at this address …
30 Newhaven Road, Edinburgh—a corner tenement over one ground-floor shop, built in 1896, with four floors of “superior houses of 3 and 4 apartments”. Former residents include:
My series, Classified Britain, is getting an airing on BBC Radio4 Extra this week, daily at 09.30. The final flourish this morning revisits the Dundee Courier of 16th November 1922. If you have been, thanks for listening. bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b…
My series, Classified Britain, gets an airing on @BBCRadio4Extra this week, daily at 09.30, James Naughtie presenting. Today's programme revisits the South London Press of 19th June, 1897. bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b…
Beeause he's past it? - BBC News - British and Irish Lions: Owen Farrell call-up could be a 'masterstroke' - Danny Care - BBC Sport bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-un…
This isn't what a northerner like me wants to read ahead of work next week in Cambridge, London and Gloucester - News - UK weather: Amber heat health alerts issued as temperatures to soar - BBC News bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…
Good to meet up again, after 4 years, with @TioAlbie. Should have taken a selfie but failed as usual with these things, but perhaps Bob Lane, also present, would have objected ...
An not altogether unexpected meeting on the waterfront here
A “copy” of Magna Carta sold to the Harvard Law School Library in 1946 has been identified as one of just six extraordinarily rare originals that survive intact from 1300.
Are you a researcher interested in the history of law and labour in Scotland? Would you like to attend a workshop on this topic? See below for details of a workshop to be held at the University of Strathclyde on 19 June 2025
Why are England fast bowlers so fragile? - BBC News - Olly Stone: England pace bowler to miss Test cricket summer with knee injury - BBC Sport bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/…
Does anyone have access/ a copy of the following: GWS Barrow, 'The origins and early history of Edinburgh and Glasgow: two Scottish cities contrasted', in Ekonomiczne i pozaekonomiczne czynniki' rozwoju miast (Akademia Ekonomiczna w Krakowie, Kraków, 1986), pp. 5-22
Moveable Transactions (Scotland) Act 2023 - comes into effect tomorrow, sign up for our seminar to ensure you are up to date with this new legislation.
👇Design lawyers - the survey response deadline is today but this is no April fools day joke! The UKIPO designs consultation suggests major changes to the subject matter that might be protectable as a design. Make sure to respond if you can!
📢 Design law folks - don't forget the current UKIPO design survey (deadline 1 April). It looks as if it is mostly about procedure/cost, but right at the end it pops in a *major* question about revising the definition of 'design' in very significant ways! gov.uk/government/cal…
The Moveable Transactions (Scotland) Act 2023 comes into force on 1 April 2025. It takes forward our Report on Moveable Transactions (Scot Law Com No 249). We hope the Act will open up more cost effective loan finance options that will benefit businesses and the wider economy.
Trump talking about buying Greenland has MAGA confronting their greatest challenge - geography.
📘Our Annual Report 2024 is published today! 📰 It outlines the progress made on our law reform work over the year, developments regarding the implementation of our recommendations, and the publications we have planned for 2025. See full details here: scotlawcom.gov.uk/files/5217/429…
Good work at the National Records of Scotland by my co-author Alan Borthwick - bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…
The Moveable Transactions (Scotland) Act 2023 will come into force on 1 April. Join Prof Steven, Bruce Wood and Hamish Patrick to learn about the changes that it will bring. The seminar will take place in Edin on 29 April and via Zoom on 1 May. edinburghlawseminars.co.uk/moveable-trans…