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The island groups of Orkney, Shetland and the Western Isles are all currently regions of Scotland. Their constitutional status has periodically been discussed, for example during the Scottish independence referendum campaign. Currently, they are council areas with the same constitutional status as the other 29 local government areas.
Sick of being ignored by far-away politicians, officials on Scotland’s remote Orkney Islands are mulling a drastic solution: rejoining Norway, the Scandinavian country that gave them away as a ...
The act made Orkney and Shetland exempt from any "dissolution of His Majesty's lands".In 1742 a further act of Parliament, the Orkney and Shetland Act 1741 (15 Geo. 2.c. 4), returned the estates to a later Earl of Morton, James Douglas, 14th Earl of Morton, despite the original act of Parliament specifically stating that any such change was to be "considered null, void and of no effect".
The constituency is made up of the two northernmost island groups of Scotland, Orkney and Shetland. A constituency of this name has existed continuously since 1708. However, before 1918 the town of Kirkwall (the capital of Orkney) formed part of the Northern Burghs constituency. It is the most northerly of the 650 UK Parliament constituencies.
A day before the referendum Alistair Carmichael, the MP for Orkney and Shetland, and then-Secretary of State for Scotland, suggested that if Shetland were to vote strongly against independence but the Scottish national vote was narrowly in favour, a discussion should be had about Shetland becoming a self-governing crown dependency outside of ...
Udal law is a Norse-derived legal system, found in Shetland and Orkney in Scotland, and in Manx law [1] in the Isle of Man. It is closely related to Odelsrett; both terms are from Proto-Germanic *Ōþalan, meaning "heritage; inheritance". [2]
They brought together a committee of "prominent Scots" who drafted the document "A Claim of Right for Scotland". [2] The "Claim" was published in 1988 and signed by most Scottish politicians, local councils, trade unions and churches. [2] It was agreed to form a Scottish Constitutional Convention, made up of existing MPs and councillors.
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