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So, Mr. Salmond would like to see the removal of the Supreme Court’s
power to decide Human Rights issues with regard to the Scottish criminal
justice system. Moreover, he has chosen to personalise the issue by attacking Lord Hope,
the deputy president of the Supreme Court, and previously lord justice
general of Scotland. The situation has become so farcical that the
Scottish Government, led by the SNP, are looking at removing funding for
the Supreme Court.
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For a long time, HMRC have taken the view that where the law allows a
“reasonable excuse” for the late filing of a return — be that a
self-assessment personal tax return, Corporation Tax return, VAT return
or PAYE return — the reasonable excuse must relate to an event or
situation that was exceptional and unforeseeable. Ordinary failings or
misunderstandings were not enough.
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The process of trying to capture what I’m learning is a process that is
still under a degree of trial and error, here. When I was at school and
last studying at university level, it just kind of went in. I didn’t
care about the process. Now, a few Open University courses later of varying difficulty,
I find that I need to pay some attention to the techniques of studying,
in order to find ones that suit me best.Last year, on my first proper
law course, I summarised everything I was reading from the course
manuals and the set texts into notebooks, longhand. My reasoning behind
this was that by doing this, it would set it in my memory. From there, I
re-summarised into a revision notebook, which I read and re-read up to
the time of the exam.
