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Prolixity from Dr Andrew Tickell. Law & Scottish politics. Senior lecturer in law at GCU Law, Jacobin scribbler, Sunday National columnist, and jaded flâneur.
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⚖️ Having received royal assent today, the Victims, Witnesses & Justice Reform (Scotland) Act 2025 is now finally law. Most provisions will only come into force when ministers make commencement orders - including the new complainer anonymity rules.
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Victims, Witnesses, and Justice Reform (Scotland) Act 2025
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Can the Sheku Bayoh Inquiry recover? From the weekend, I reflect on a week in which Lord Bracadale announces his shock resignation in advance of judicial review accusing him of "apparent bias" and all the senior lawyers to the Bayoh inquiry also resign... www.thenational.scot/politics/255...
Andrew Tickell: I can't see how the Sheku Bayoh inquiry can be salvaged
CAN the Sheku Bayoh inquiry recover? As the week ends, the public inquiry is at risk of collapsing into a historic fiasco, with serious doubts about…
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Following Lord Bracadale's resignation as chair, all senior and junior counsel working on the Sheku Bayoh inquiry have now resigned. The question now must be, can the whole process be rescued?
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📺 On STV's Scotland Tonight this week, GCU Law's Dr Nick McKerrell joined the programme to discuss the resignation of Lord Bracadale as the chair of the Sheku Bayoh Inquiry and the consequences for the future. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ae4u...
What’s next for the Sheku Bayoh inquiry after the investigation chairman quits?#news #currentaffairs
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This one has been bubbling under for a while. The owners of Brel in Ashton Lane are suing trade union Unite for defamation. The Sheriff Appeal Court rejects United's challenge to the Sheriff's decision the social media posts were defamatory. www.scotcourts.gov.uk/media/fapib5...
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Lord Bracadale has resigned as chair of the Sheku Bayoh inquiry. The Court of Session was due to hear a judicial review on whether he had demonstrated apparent bias next month. www.shekubayohinquiry.scot/sites/defaul...
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Appeal Court quashes two summary convictions after Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission referral www.scotcourts.gov.uk/media/40akpl...
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He could mix it up and go with "anhidrosis" for House motto, in deference to the Greek dad.
🧑‍🍳 Tonight, I am mostly slow-cooking lamb shank with garlic, onion, wine, bay, oregano and tomato - adding orzo pasta at th close to sook up and reduce the braising liquid.
"No formality please. Do just address me informally as Your Grace the Most Worshipful Megadux of Kinlochbervie and Bonk."
A very British absurdity, that you can apparently release a press statement saying you are "no longer using your titles", and simultanously sign it "Prince Andrew." Mr Mountbatten-Windsor would surely do.
Down in London, the Court of Appeal rejects the Home Secretary's challenge to the decision to grant permission for the proscription of Palestine Action to be challenged by way of judicial review. www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/u...
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We've spent 5 years working to reform the law on reporting restrictions in Scotland, trying to align public conceptions- that complainers have automatic rights to lifelong anonymity unless they choose to waive it- with the legal rules which apply in this jurisdiction.
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Anonymity in Sexual Offences: A Scottish Law Reform Campaign?
This blog is the first in our series, “Gender (in)justice: Views from Scotland”, featuring pieces authored by legal academics at Glasgow Caledonian University. GCU Law has a strong socio-legal researc...
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I like a schnitzel in almost all forms - but am pleasantly surprised how chicken cordon bleu turned out, with a bit of smoke from a slice of ham through the middle, and more from layering German smoked cheese inside before giving the whole thing its egg, flour and panko jaikit.
After almost 50 years, the Scottish Government is finally revisiting the rights of children and parents to opt out of religious observance in schools. But somehow, ministers have managed to bungle what ought to be a basic question of children's rights. www.thenational.scot/news/2551810...
Andrew Tickell: Scotland’s schools still force children to pray. That needs to change
MY wee sister will never forgive me. In the early 2000s, you apparently couldn’t have a school assembly without involving God, prayers and Bible…
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I've also written more academically about this phenomenon and the inevitable auction effects of passing legislation promising special recognition. Can you blame campaigners for asking “If MSPs feel retail workers’ pain, why won’t they feel mine”? researchonline.gcu.ac.uk/en/publicati...
“We feel your pain”: the politics of recognition, fair labelling and the Protection of Workers (Retail and Age-restricted Goods and Services) (Scotland) Act 2021
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I did ponder sticking in evidence about it, but it would be a doomed grumping exercise I reckoned!
So Holyrood has unanumously decided to pass legislation to make it a criminal offence to steal dogs. Exactly how recriminalising behaviour which is already criminal "strengthens the law" is a question for the philosophers. A throwback rant from 2023: andrewtickell.co.uk/2023/09/03/o...
On dog-napping
Herald on Sunday, Sunday National, 3rd September 2023. We’ve always had black Schnauzers. Niamh was our first dog. She was a giant. We chose her partly because we then lived in rural mid-Argy…
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Should it be any mitigation, for someone who kills their partner to say "I just snapped when I found out they cheated on me"? As Scots law stands, "provocation by sexual infidelity" reduces murder to culpable homicide. This archaic doctrine needs repealed.
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Andrew Tickell: Mitigation for adultery is an anomaly that must be abolished
IN January 1941, Alexander Hill received a letter from his wife Alice. Hill was corporal in the military police, stationed in England. Alice lived…
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The Scottish Law Commission recommend significant reforms to the Scots law of homicide. www.scotlawcom.gov.uk/files/3017/5...
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