The information provided on this post is theoretical for future jurists and law makers to consider and was written in Scotland by a former Scottish lawyer. It is not legal advice, this website is not a lawyer referral service and no attorney-client or confidential relationship is or should be...
In 1959, my adoptive parents asked their lawyer to contact the church in which I was baptized to have a new baptismal certificate issued in my adopted name of Joan Mary Wheeler. The priest wrote up a new baptismal certificate with my new name and the names of my adoptive parents, as if ...
Susie leads the UK Private Client and Private Office business for PwC UK and the Private Business practice in Scotland and has been a Partner since 2014. Susie's background before joining PwC 14 years ago was as a practicing tax lawyer with firms in London and Edinburgh. Susie's legal expe...
Henry Fielding (Harry) Dickens(1849-1933) - Dickens' eighth child named for English author Henry Fielding. Henry, educated at Cambridge, was the most successful of Dickens children(Ackroyd, 1990, p. 1033-1034). He became a lawyer, judge, and was knighted in 1922. Later he performed readin...
What’s great with back of the envelope computations is that they actually help you reconsider solutions that you unconsciously ruled out by “common sense”. What about indexing the whole thing on my desktop computer… Downloading the whole thing using my private internet connnection. Is this rid...
We should have the legal right to one – and only one – birth certificate like all non-adopted people.Are you paying attention, Elizabeth Kirk? You call yourself a lawyer in family law? Do you really understand adoption and vital statistics laws?