PeatWorrier
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Prolixity from Andrew Tickell. Law & Scottish politics. Senior lecturer in law @GCULaw, Jacobin scribbler, @SunScotNational columnist, and jaded flâneur.
Glasgow
Joined March 2010
I haven't wholly decided what to do with the text-based artform formally known as Twitter, but I *have* annexed the coveted PeatWorrier identity over on BlueSky.
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RT @HughHarrop: Golden hour #Orca surfacing in South Nesting Bay, Shetland yesterday afternoon. Love the light illuminating the blow and…
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I have no idea who this appointment is supposed to please, on either side of the Atlantic.
Peter Mandelson is the new British Ambassador to the United States. Learn more about his incredible life and why he’s so energised by this new role.
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Seems like an interesting priority.
EXCLUSIVE: Anas Sarwar has threatened to name and shame colleagues by revealing a league table of under-performing MP and MSPs.
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Tonight is a haggis and potato night I think. Not fast food when you're leaving it to contemplate itself slowly in the oven - but after a long week, idle, sturdy food that takes care of itself.
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@davemcardle (Asking on behalf of generations of traumatised law students, who can't look at a stinging nettle the same way again...)
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RT @AileenFKavanagh: For anyone who has received negative student feedback, take heart from the fact that Samuel Beckett - winner of the No…
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In the Court of Session yesterday, Greater Glasgow Health Board wins judicial review against decision of the chair of the Scottish Hospitals Inquiry to refuse to accept an expert report received into evidence.
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RT @JudgesScotland: The Right Honourable Lord Pentland has been sworn in as Lord President and Lord Justice General. The ceremony took plac…
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Well, that was quick.
Police withdraw legal action over Bayoh inquiry
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You wonder what the legal basis might be for this judicial review petition from Police Scotland.
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A grim - and based on the limited information in the public domain, still fairly inexplicable - human story from Aberdeen this weekend, resolving at least part of this sad mystery for the family of these two women.
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RT @AndroidRoss: PLEASE SHARE - LOST PHONE Found this phone outside Ting Thai on Byres Road Glasgow. Please share as widely as possible…
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I hadn't realised this one had escalated to court action, with the Council seeking declarator in the Sheriff Court that the Labour candidate was disqualified.
There will be a by-election in Glasgow North East sooner rather than later after Labour and Glasgow City Council ended their legal battle over Mary McNab who was barred from office just four days after being elected.
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RT @JudgesScotland: His Majesty the King has appointed the Right Honourable Lord Beckett as Lord Justice Clerk. Lord Beckett will succeed t…
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The Faculty of Advocates raised a case after the Judicial Appointments Board changed its practice and interpretation of the underlying legislation to regard the 9-month pupillage as a break in candidates' continuous legal experience, disqualifying them from judicial appointment.
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