Hector MacQueen
@MacqueenHector
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Emeritus law professor also a historian, twitcher, and social networker, once a law reformer. RTs indicate agreement or amusement or amazement - or not.
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Joined May 2012
Contract law could become easier to understand with a default set of rules on how contracts are formed & accepted. The Contract (Formation and Remedies) (Scotland) Bill aims to make contract law more accessible for laypeople. https://t.co/rgZ0g5r1dZ Convener @StuMcMillanSNP👇
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It has taken me something like 15 years to discover I can download documents to my Kindle. Apologies to everyone who has had to watch my peering at the screen of my tiny phone while giving a talk in recent years.
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The Contract (Formation and Remedies) (Scotland) Bill was introduced in the Scottish Parliament on 2 October 2025. The Bill implements the recommendations of our 2018 Report. Read the report here: https://t.co/cvMMbxJ3p7 For full details of the Bill see:
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My series, Classified Britain, is getting an airing on BBC Radio4 Extra this week, daily at 09.30. The final flourish this morning revisits the Dundee Courier of 16th November 1922. If you have been, thanks for listening.
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James Naughtie explores the history of Dundee through front page small ads.
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My series, Classified Britain, gets an airing on @BBCRadio4Extra this week, daily at 09.30, James Naughtie presenting. Today's programme revisits the South London Press of 19th June, 1897.
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James Naughtie explores the history of South London through front page small ads.
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As ever, tales of domestic bliss and general happiness at this address …
30 Newhaven Road, Edinburgh—a corner tenement over one ground-floor shop, built in 1896, with four floors of “superior houses of 3 and 4 apartments”. Former residents include:
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Beeause he's past it? - BBC News - British and Irish Lions: Owen Farrell call-up could be a 'masterstroke' - Danny Care - BBC Sport https://t.co/poAp8PKudR
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Owen Farrell's call-up to the British and Irish Lions tour of Australia could be a "masterstroke", says former England scrum-half Danny Care.
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This isn't what a northerner like me wants to read ahead of work next week in Cambridge, London and Gloucester - News - UK weather: Amber heat health alerts issued as temperatures to soar - BBC News https://t.co/3m7uI3UEwL
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The alerts warn of increased pressure on health and social care services as temperatures climb.
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Good to meet up again, after 4 years, with @TioAlbie. Should have taken a selfie but failed as usual with these things, but perhaps Bob Lane, also present, would have objected ...
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An not altogether unexpected meeting on the waterfront here
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A “copy” of Magna Carta sold to the Harvard Law School Library in 1946 has been identified as one of just six extraordinarily rare originals that survive intact from 1300.
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Are you a researcher interested in the history of law and labour in Scotland? Would you like to attend a workshop on this topic? See below for details of a workshop to be held at the University of Strathclyde on 19 June 2025
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Why are England fast bowlers so fragile? - BBC News - Olly Stone: England pace bowler to miss Test cricket summer with knee injury - BBC Sport https://t.co/wOYqUMxayL
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England's fast-bowling stocks are further depleted after Olly Stone was ruled out of the Test summer by a right knee injury.
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I just signed this petition having discovered that 68 works with my name on them as author or editor have been included in the LibGen database without any authority from or payment to me.
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Does anyone have access/ a copy of the following: GWS Barrow, 'The origins and early history of Edinburgh and Glasgow: two Scottish cities contrasted', in Ekonomiczne i pozaekonomiczne czynniki' rozwoju miast (Akademia Ekonomiczna w Krakowie, KrakĂłw, 1986), pp. 5-22
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Protect authors’ livelihoods from the unlicensed use of their work in AI training - Sign the Petition! https://t.co/eplGCPAxxB via @UKChange
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Protect authors’ livelihoods from the unlicensed use of their work in AI training
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Moveable Transactions (Scotland) Act 2023 - comes into effect tomorrow, sign up for our seminar to ensure you are up to date with this new legislation.
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👇Design lawyers - the survey response deadline is today but this is no April fools day joke! The UKIPO designs consultation suggests major changes to the subject matter that might be protectable as a design. Make sure to respond if you can!
📢 Design law folks - don't forget the current UKIPO design survey (deadline 1 April). It looks as if it is mostly about procedure/cost, but right at the end it pops in a *major* question about revising the definition of 'design' in very significant ways! https://t.co/6SvsK11X3m
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The Moveable Transactions (Scotland) Act 2023 comes into force on 1 April 2025. It takes forward our Report on Moveable Transactions (Scot Law Com No 249). We hope the Act will open up more cost effective loan finance options that will benefit businesses and the wider economy.
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Trump talking about buying Greenland has MAGA confronting their greatest challenge - geography.
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