Edinburgh student wins first Session Cases scholarship

A PhD student at the University of Edinburgh has won the research scholarship launched to celebrate the bicentenary of Session Cases.

Shona Warwick was awarded the scholarship, worth £20,000, to contribute to her tuition and living costs as she completes her PhD thesis on leases and licences in Scotland.

Ms Warwick, who comes from Stoer, Sutherland, hopes her research will some fundamental unanswered questions in the common law, around which occupancy agreements can be validly created, and how their formation requirements differ. She is also a winner of the Scottish Universities Law Institute scholarship.

The publishers of Session Cases, the Scottish Council for Law Reporting, which instituted the Bicentenary Scholarship, hope it may become an annual award.