Scottish Law Librarians Group

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Friends, let's play a round of 'Which Lovely Library?' #WhichLovelyLibrary is this?

Another reason to consult your friendly neighbourhood law librarian: bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Case papers from the Douglas Cause court case: an acrimonious legal battle over contested inheritance which concluded on 27 February 1769. The case was so controversial that it sparked riots in Edinburgh! Find out more about our court and legal records 👉bit.ly/CourtLegalNRS

Dunblane's historic Leighton Library has 1787 Edinburgh First Edition of "Poems, chiefly in the Scottish dialect" by Robert Burns, who visited Dunblane same year, 1787. This contained additional 17 poems & 5 new songs compared to 1786 Kilmarnock Edition

LexisNexis 👀

If you don’t eat your legal food you won’t grow up to be a big strong lawyer.

Learning old handwriting will help you to access Scotland’s history in our archives. Download our old Scottish handwriting kit to help decipher old documents 👉bit.ly/NRSWriting

Not proven verdict to be scrapped in new trials from 1 January bbc.in/4rSZ1D0

New Open Access articles in Law now available 👉 cup.org/48XYdVN #law #OpenAccess #OA

Last quarter I rolled out Microsoft Copilot to 4,000 employees. $30 per seat per month. $1.4 million annually. I called it "digital transformation." The board loved that phrase. They approved it in eleven minutes. No one asked what it would actually do. Including me. I told everyone it would "10x productivity." That's not a real number. But it sounds like one. HR asked how we'd measure the 10x. I said we'd "leverage analytics dashboards." They stopped asking. Three months later I checked the usage reports. 47 people had opened it. 12 had used it more than once. One of them was me. I used it to summarize an email I could have read in 30 seconds. It took 45 seconds. Plus the time it took to fix the hallucinations. But I called it a "pilot success." Success means the pilot didn't visibly fail. The CFO asked about ROI. I showed him a graph. The graph went up and to the right. It measured "AI enablement." I made that metric up. He nodded approvingly. We're "AI-enabled" now. I don't know what that means. But it's in our investor deck. A senior developer asked why we didn't use Claude or ChatGPT. I said we needed "enterprise-grade security." He asked what that meant. I said "compliance." He asked which compliance. I said "all of them." He looked skeptical. I scheduled him for a "career development conversation." He stopped asking questions. Microsoft sent a case study team. They wanted to feature us as a success story. I told them we "saved 40,000 hours." I calculated that number by multiplying employees by a number I made up. They didn't verify it. They never do. Now we're on Microsoft's website. "Global enterprise achieves 40,000 hours of productivity gains with Copilot." The CEO shared it on LinkedIn. He got 3,000 likes. He's never used Copilot. None of the executives have. We have an exemption. "Strategic focus requires minimal digital distraction." I wrote that policy. The licenses renew next month. I'm requesting an expansion. 5,000 more seats. We haven't used the first 4,000. But this time we'll "drive adoption." Adoption means mandatory training. Training means a 45-minute webinar no one watches. But completion will be tracked. Completion is a metric. Metrics go in dashboards. Dashboards go in board presentations. Board presentations get me promoted. I'll be SVP by Q3. I still don't know what Copilot does. But I know what it's for. It's for showing we're "investing in AI." Investment means spending. Spending means commitment. Commitment means we're serious about the future. The future is whatever I say it is. As long as the graph goes up and to the right.

The record of the old Scottish parliament breaks off abruptly on 27 November 1706. Parliament continued to sit after that date but our archivists believe the clerk writing the minutes may have stopped working, believing that he wouldn’t be paid to continue.

#60Billsfor60Years Today's bill consolidated the laws relating to the Court of Session. Report: scotlawcom.gov.uk/files/4612/798…

In today's blog post by Laura, discover marriage laws in #Germany, including constitutional protections and the rights and obligations of spouses. Read all about it here: blogs.loc.gov/law/2025/11/ma… #ICLBlog

A roaring fire is just the thing for a chilly Tuesday in November. Doodle found inside the 1672 'New Rules' for the regulation of cities and towns in Ireland.

Scrolled too quickly.

Mystery solved! Turns out the “lion” spotted roaming Clare was just a Newfoundland dog with a fresh haircut! Gardaí from Killaloe have concluded that the recent video of a “lion like” animal roaming around the woods in East Clare is in fact the very friendly dog named ‘Mouse’.

Vote for Calvie, our very own Scots law paw librarian! lawpawcalendar.com/vote-for-the-f…

Our online research website @Scotland’sPeople doesn’t only give access to birth, marriage and death records. Search church and tax records, military service appeals, employment and prison registers and more 👇 scotlandspeople.gov.uk

The Opening of the Legal Year ceremony took place in Edinburgh this morning. Speaking at the occasion, the Lord President, Lord Pentland, highlighted the importance of judicial independence and the rule of law. Read more: bit.ly/48dpy6L

MSPs are on the brink of voting to abolish the controversial third verdict of not proven in criminal cases, but will scrapping it make a difference? Listen to Scotcast ⬇️ bbc.in/47Pwabf