A new book aiming to restore India's place in the ancient world is a treasure trove of insight and anecdote, writes Kapil Summan. On 1 September 1783, the 24-gun man o' war HMS Crocodile arrived in Madras. A Porcupine-class warship late of the British defeat in America, its most precious asset was t
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In the final part of his series on Big Book, David J Black finds yet more revelations between the lines. See part three here. Let us park Ms Rooney in a lay-by for the moment, and focus on the man in the shadows. A dyed-in-the-wool Republican, one time Rubio-supporting Trump sceptic Paul Elliott Sin
When Brandon Malone dropped dead five years ago, it was a defibrillator machine – and quick-thinking hotel staff – that saved his life. Luckily an automatic-external defibrillator had been at hand and, though his heart had stopped for a full 20 minutes, the people using it were able to s
Literature is another casualty of our ailing civilisation. David J Black discusses the simulacrum left in its wake. See part one here. Unlike her risque predecessors Jilly Cooper and Joanna Trollope, Ms Rooney enjoys the honorific sobriquet "the voice of a generation", in which office she has seemin
Rod Maclean takes a look at a high-profile family squabble. Media business magnate Rupert Murdoch’s family’s public drama regarding ownership is perhaps the biggest family business law story of a generation. Beneath the glitz lies a classic archetype of succession squabbles. Families &nd
A sheriff has awarded a Glasgow motorist who was struck from behind at a junction the sum of £3,144 in damages after finding that she had suffered neck pain for four months following the accident. Farheen Ackrim sought damages from UK Insurance Ltd after she sustained a soft tissue injury from
The Damages (Scotland) Bill, appended to the recently published Scottish Law Commission Report on Damages for Personal Injury, contains some important proposed reforms which are intended to modernise Scots law and resolve certain difficulties, writes Lady Paton. The report recommends the amendment o
Being a public figure is tough. In some ways, few public roles are harder than those of politicians and government officials. The constant judgement, insults and threats alone are enough to put almost anyone off public service, writes Benjamin Bestgen. There is no denying that being a politician or
David J Black traces the origins of a scandal in plain sight and calls for a judge-led inquiry in part three of his series on the continued plight of ME/CFS sufferers. See also parts one and two. It is doubtless commendable to provide an ill or disabled person with fulfilling work, though hopefully
In part two of his series on dysfunction in our health system, David J Black reminds us that the cost of bad medicine is people's lives. Read part one here. It is one of those facts which cries out to be universally acknowledged: when it came to understanding the nature of such illnesses as ME/CFS,
Messrs Reeves and Friedman with this study present a modern sociological view of ‘the British elite’. Who are the purported elites, or, following one definition, the ruling minority?
David J Black tells the tale of his encounter with Hollywood, whose prestige is, happily, diminishing rapidly. See part two in tomorrow's SLN. News comes that the $238 billion Netflix Corporation of Los Gatos, California, has developed an interest in Edinburgh’s Grassmarket to the extent that
The Sheriff Appeal Court has reduced an interim order granted by a Glasgow sheriff giving a woman a right of occupancy in her former cohabitant’s property even though the order was granted nearly a year after they ceased cohabiting. Pursuer Marianne McBride originally obtained an interlocutor
When he describes his arrival at the Scottish bar as being “a bit convoluted”, Ian Forrester KC really isn’t kidding. Having studied history and English and then law at the University of Glasgow, Forrester began his career with Maclay Murray & Spens in the mid-1960s with the or
The ‘new’ Electronic Communications Code came into force at the end of 2017. It is a schedule to the Communications Act 2003. It governs telecoms masts and other ‘electronic communications apparatus’; specifically, relations between their operators and the owners or tenants o
