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LEXEGESE | 26. Januar 2012 —Masdar, a renewable energy company based in Abu Dhabi, plans to spend millions of dirhams in clean energy projects in Scotland after signing an agreement with the Scottish government. Source: New York Times …
LEXEGESE | 20. Oktober 2011 — ... ) demonstration programme, after the conclusion of negotiations for a CCS demonstration project at Longannet in Scotland. A decision has been made not to proceed with Longannet but to pursue other projects with ... for a new process and we are expecting a number of promising bids …
Transblawg | 1. Februar 2011 —I'm a bit late for Burns Night, but I see (by accident) that there is a supplier in Germany who will supply frozen haggis: haggis.de. The haggis comes originally from MacSween of Edinburgh. The German on the site is a bit odd in places, but it seems to be the typing rather than the original content.…
Transblawg | 6. April 2009 —I gather from CharonQC and Blawg Review that April 6 is Tartan Day in North America and is celebrated by Canadians and Americans of Scottish heritage. Craig Williams (also of Welsh ancestry) of May it Please the Court is going to feature this in his blawg review. At the time of writing this, it is o…
Transblawg | 28. Oktober 2008 — ... that there are three legal systems in the UK: in England and Wales; in Scotland; and in Northern Ireland. We don't usually talk about UK law or British ... the whole of the island of Ireland, but it did not spread to Scotland. Scots law is a hybrid system, a mixture of civil law (kontinentale…
Transblawg | 27. Oktober 2008 — ... - the paperwork can be done at any. But the law varies between the three jurisdictions: England and Wales; Scotland; Northern Ireland. Scotland has traditionally offered a wide range. I did not realize that it is the only UK jurisdiction, ... Thus reports Fiona at Divorce Survivor. See also Y…
Transblawg | 25. Oktober 2008 —The Court of Session (Outer House, which deals with cases at first instance) has recently published a decision in a matter between two German parties. The defender, who is domiciled in Scotland, asserted that only the German courts have jurisdiction over the case, but evidence from German law was pr…
Transblawg | 18. April 2008 — ... the Pope may not be Scottish. (I got 80% on the Pope Trivia Test got questions 5 and 9 wrong). Papal Jurisdiction Act 1560 Wikipedia, however, says the Act has fallen into disuse - certainly it has as far as it excludes the jurisdiction of the Pope in Scotland - and doubts a Scotsman who becam…
Transblawg | 4. März 2008 —It always surprises me how many Scots there are in Bavaria (see earlier entry). …
Transblawg | 28. Januar 2008 —You can certainly buy Stollen at Christmas in Lidl and Aldi in the UK (Upminster now has an Aldi), but on the whole their ranges are British, as is shown by their Burns Night offerings (which I missed, of course). The following partial screenshot is taken from Google's cache. It is no longer availab…
Transblawg | 10. Januar 2008 —Informationsquellen zum römischen Recht Herausgegeben von Ernest Metzger, University of Glasgow Roman Law Resources Edited by Ernest Metzger, University of Glasgow (Via Juristisches Internetprojekt Saarbrücken)…
Transblawg | 15. November 2007 —Billy Connolly on youtube (via Volker Weber)…
Transblawg | 31. Oktober 2007 — I sometimes wonder if the Scots know how they are used in German advertising. (Note tartan paper on wall inside shop). …
Transblawg | 30. Oktober 2007 —The Scotsman reports on court interpreting problems in Scotland: some trials have collapsed because the untrained interpreter was incompetent, and with the influx of foreign nationals into Scotland the problem is increasing (it's presumably a magnified version of ... giving him a summary and chat…
Transblawg | 28. Oktober 2007 — ... It is a very widely construed crime and often causes concern in relation to civil liberties. It encompasses looking in at a lighted window ... statements made to another in the absence of witness in private ... and even an exuberant blow to the chest of a fellow footballer. Consider also th…
Transblawg | 28. Oktober 2007 —Judging from Google, not only Werner Siebers is baffled by a Telegraph report: Die spinnen, die Engländer. Weil ein Mann Sex mit seinem Fahrrad hatt…