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Fergus Whyte @WhyteFergus
Joined November 2016
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Primarily over on BlueSky now so come join me for scintillating legal insights such as the below: whytefergus.bsky.social Honestly not sure what meaning of "own" they are going for here but I am going to choose its the colloquial, very online version
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Something has broken out of the former premises of the Scottish Law Commission... Reports of a zombie Alan Rodger are thought to be unconnected at this time
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Scots law used to have something called a blench...
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Being so uncomfortable with gay people that you teach yourself the niceities of road traffic signage and street marking law, and then launch a judicial review about it is a new level of... something rnz.co.nz/news/national/5456…

Wellington's rainbow crossing to stay after court ruling

Wellington's controversial rainbow crossing on Cuba St can stay as it is.

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Monckton Chambers@moncktonlaw
14 Mar 2025
Replying to @eurelationslaw
@eurelationslaw blog post by Alastair Holder Ross of @moncktonlaw Chambers: Coulda, shoulda, woulda – whether to depart from assimilated EU case law eurelationslaw.com/blog/coul…

Coulda, shoulda, woulda – whether to depart from assimilated EU case law

In this blog post Alastair Holder Ross of Monckton Chambers discusses the Court of Appeal’s recent judgment in Merck Serono v Comptroller-General of Patents [2025] EWCA Civ 45, which clarifies the...

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Hardcarses make bard law
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Top level 1950s lawyers' problem here (though the mace is quite cute)
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Most of intellectual property law is just spot the difference with high stakes financial consequences
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There is Scots authority for the proposition that you can't teach sheep about interdicts - Campbell v Mackay 1959 SLT 34 (Oban Sh Ct)
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Reading through a training exercise where the accused is one John Smith and his co-accused is named Alan Rodger but where students are asked to refer to the very real case of Allan Turnbull v HMA [2017] HCJAC 85 - serendipitous indeed
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Mutating grounds of judicial review is a delightful way to describe something - from HK, Petitioner [2025] CSOH 1
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Had to look at a book by Lord McLaren recently (pre 1964 Act succession law...) and he has a fascinating family story - a draper/MP father, a KC half-brother, pioneering doctor half-sister and a sculptor (Rodin pal) daughter en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_M…

John McLaren, Lord McLaren - Wikipedia

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Seasoned with bad law may be my new favourite expression - from Scrymgeour-Wedderburn v Earl of Lauderdale 1910 S.C. (H.L.) 35 📷
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Got to love that this has its own entry
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"Then the seventh seal was opened, and lo, there came forth a great torrent of discussing exactly how Roman law would have handled this particular civil law issue..."
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Anyone happen to know when Altlaw (the US Bailii equivalent) became a Kratom booster site (altlaw.org/)?
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So this latest privilege case about "without prejudice" in Scots law is fascinating and is going to ruin a few people's days - bailii.org/scot/cases/ScotCS…

ALT Princess Bride You Keep Using That Word GIF
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Entirely unprompted, it is amusing to note that a lot of marketers don't realise that advocates/barristers are sole traders and therefore cannot be 'cold-emailed' under PECR - ico.org.uk/for-organisations…

Business-to-business marketing

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Pleas in mitigation are just the ultimate in constructive criticism
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Extremely promising start to case - Walsh and others v Spence and others [2023] EWHC 1661 (Ch)
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