Alasdair Peterson

Shetlander living in Edinburgh. Law Lecturer. Interested in Property law and Private law more generally.

[Scott Wortley @Scott_Wortley]

How can a deputy convener of a committee on civil justice have so little understanding as to how court cases, and specifically appeal cases, work?

[House of Lords @UKHouseofLords]

The first televised debate on 23 January 1985 saw members press government on the economy. Former Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, then Earl of Stockton, spoke without notes for 20 minutes. Lord Stockton was said by commentators to have ‘stolen the show.’

[Dan Hitchens @ddhitchens]

Edmund Burke - one of the great MPs, of course - on good intentions.

[Edinburgh Centre for Private Law @ECPrivateLaw]

Read our new blog entry by Dr Alasdair Peterson @APeterson1990 on "Servitudes in the Sheriff Appeal Court - Acquiescence, Permission and Tolerance"

https://t.co/qLtlq0iyND

[John MacLeod/Seonaidh MacLeòid @Culbokster]

The Edinburgh Legal Education Trust is offering a range of scholarships in Scots Private Law: https://t.co/4cauc4gzgA. If you would like to discuss an application with me, please get in touch. (I'm not one of the trustees but I know a bit about researching Scots private law.)

[Edmund @Kulambq]

King Charles III reciting Gerard Manley Hopkins' poem 'God's Grandeur.'

The world is charged with the grandeur of God.

[Edinburgh Centre for Private Law @ECPrivateLaw]

Great news! Save 75% on ebooks within the Edinburgh Studies in Law Series. https://t.co/abkR42jK5d published by EUP @EdinburghUP .

[Rachel Leow @rachleow]

V pleased that my article on mutual consent and the conferral of authority in agency law is coming out in the OJLS! Now available on advance access: https://t.co/DD7adveDnL

[Orkney Library @OrkneyLibrary]

A disposition is a legal document concerning the transfer of land from one person to another. Not that exciting.

But this disposition is amazing because it was written in 1402.

That is 616 years ago. Written by someone who lived in #Orkney six centuries ago.

[Joanna Cherry KC @joannaccherry]

This isn’t cronyism. Catherine has the qualifications for the job & moreover is a legal adviser to a government whose agenda she is actually signed up to. A more nuanced analysis would ask why the SNP doesn’t emulate this approach.

[Jennifer A. Frey @jennfrey]

Finally, someone settles this matter properly. (H/t @Dprudlo)

[Alasdair Peterson @APeterson1990]

@on_lothianbuses South/Towards town. I've now jumped on the second no.9 to pass by, so not sure how late the no.8 was in the end.

[Alasdair Peterson @APeterson1990]

@on_lothianbuses Hello, are there issues with the no 8 today? The 0922 at Rodney St hasn't turned up and the tracker keeps climbing up so that it's est arrival is the same as the next bus.

[Oliver Kamm @OliverKamm]

It’s common sense that the election of a Labour (or Tory) leader, being either actually or potentially a PM, should be the decision of MPs alone. Party members should have zero votes. @UKLabour shouldn’t delay or compromise on this. https://t.co/2oBOaU1ab1

[Simen @pronouncedsimon]

Today on Norwegian TV, on our ‘BBC1’: the entire law-code gathered by Magnus the Lawmender in the 13th century read aloud by a wide ensemble of individuals, including former prime ministers and the like. At least 12 hours non stop. 750 year anniversary.

Never change Norway

[David Blagden @blagden_david]

And in response to several points: yes, govt-backed student loans - that are usurious on some, but will never be paid back by others - are a form of subsidy…*to the demand side*. They do nothing to ease costs on the supply side (and may increase those costs in a few ways).

[David Blagden @blagden_david]

You can have a free market. Or you can have state-set price controls. There are cases for both. But you cannot have a market *with* price control and still expect a supply (quantity+quality) that satisfies demand.

The previous govt’s doing. But now this govt’s problem to unpick.

[David Blagden @blagden_david]

It really shouldn’t need saying, but apparently it does: if the state is going to cap the price of a good below a break-even point, it also needs a plan to subsidise the provision of that good. Otherwise the good will be systematically under-supplied (in quantity and/or quality).