Session Cases survey closes tomorrow – vote now!

Scottish Legal News has been featuring nominations for the top Session Case to accompany a survey run by the Scottish Council of Law Reporting on the occasion of the law reports’ bicentenary.

It is thought that Session Cases is the longest continuous set of law reports still in production in the common law world outside the US, independence having made the United States Reports of US Supreme Court decisions older).

The final nomination will be from Sir David Edward and will appear in tomorrow’s SLN. Below are links to each of the nominated cases.

  1. Session Cases At 200: Lord Kinclaven makes the case for Donoghue v Stevenson
  2. Session Cases At 200: Tyger Tyger burning bright
  3. Session Cases At 200: Where there’s a will there’s a way
  4. Session Cases At 200: A ‘gallery of mirrors’
  5. Session Cases At 200: Title and interest to the top spot
  6. Session Cases At 200: A River Runs Through It
  7. Session Cases At 200: Those Were the Days
  8. Session Cases At 200: ‘I am poor now and cannot marry, but I will marry her’
  9. Session Cases At 200: The Nat Fraser appeal
  10. Session Cases At 200: Nominative case
  11. Session Cases At 200: Age of innocence
  12. Session Cases At 200: ‘Our predecessors speak to us across the years’

The survey closes at midnight tomorrow – vote here.

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