Alex Salmond's criticism of the UK Supreme Court is grandstanding

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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Penalties from HMRC and reasonable excuses

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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How I now take notes while studying

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.

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