Author Archives: Iain Nisbet

For some considerable time (20 years or more), people in Scotland who knew about such things would have told you that the parents of children with special educational needs (or, latterly, additional support needs) have the same rights to make … Continue reading →

I’m just back from my holidays in Aviemore – and what a nice time we had. Among the highlights of the trip were the number of red squirrels we saw. Never having seen even one before, I was delighted. If … Continue reading →

Direct Line has won a judicial battle to prevent rivals esure from using a mouse on wheels logo. The judge ruled that it was too similar to Direct Line’s logos and might lead to confusion. Direct Line has used a … Continue reading →

The World Intellectual Property Organisation have ruled that the domain name narnia.mobi should be transferred from the Edinburgh couple who bought it for their son to use for e-mail to the C.S. Lewis Company. The family have been quoted as … Continue reading →

News has reached us from the Norwich Evening News that former Celtic FC goalkeeper, David Marshall has been fined £800 for not having a TV licence. This is on top of an existing £90 fine for driving whilst using a … Continue reading →

Edinburgh Law Librarian and Blogger, JennieLaw is complaining about a new facebook application which encourages people to gossip anonymously about their friends. Quite correctly, she suggests that the potential for defamatory comments being made in this way could be storing … Continue reading →

Peter Cherbi’s Diary of Injustice in Scotland asks the (not unreasonable) question: why, if the new Scottish Legal Complaints Commission is subject to Freedom of Information legislation, is the Law Society of Scotland not? He concludes: “What could there be … Continue reading →

The Scottish Government today published the responses to its consultation on proposed amendments to the Education (Additional Support for Learning) (Scotland) Act 2004. There were well over 100 responses including 27 from individuals and, of course, one from the Education … Continue reading →

Just came across this and I like it – a lot. Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You … Continue reading →