Special ‘Scotify!’ Issue of Juridical Review Edited by Dr Jonathan Brown

Issue 3 of the 2026 Juridical Review has published.

This Special Issue showcases the proceedings of “Scotify!”, an event organised by Law School academic Dr Jonathan Brown and hosted – with support from Engage with Strathclyde – in September 2025.

“Scotify!” was an experimental workshop in which lawyers were asked to consider the facts of a case decided from furth of Scotland, with a view to determining how aspects of the case might differ if Scots law were applied to those facts. Academics from universities across Scotland convened to consider matters as diverse as consent to childhood vaccinations, abortion law, constructive trusts and contractual interpretation (amongst other things).

The special issue of the Juridical Review was edited by Dr Brown, who also contributed a comment “Scotifying” the UK Supreme Court case of URS Corp Ltd. v BDW Trading Ltd. Three other members of the Law School contributed articles to “Scotify”: Dr Alyson Evans provided comment on the English High Court case of Re: WSP (A Child), Dr Mary Neal considered the English High Court decision in R v Foster (Carla), and Mr Roddy Cairns examined the curious case of The Moorcock, asking how things might have differed had this been decided in Scotland. Comment by Dr. Leslie Dodd of Edinburgh Napier University, on Crown Prosecution Service v Aquila Advisory Ltd. was also afforded, and Mr Malcolm Combe of Strathclyde Law School – regular editor of the case and comment section of the Juridical Review – provided a brief editorial comment on the project.

Since “Scotify!” is a readily repeatable process, plans are in motion to repeat the exercise and to invite practitioners and academics to consider further cases from beyond the borders of Scotland, asking how our law would resolve these novel and interesting matters. A call for papers will be issued in due course, with it being envisaged that the second workshop should take place in the first half of 2027.