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Facsimile reprints which provide a modern introduction explaining the significance of the respective texts to Scots law, and a frontispiece depicting the author from a portrait in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery.
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• * The Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments Act 1982 and the 1968 EC Convention on jurisdiction and the enforcement of judgments * The Contracts (Applicable Law) Act 1990 and the EC Contractual Obligations convention to which the Act gives effect * The Recognition of Trusts Act 1987 * The Child Abduction and Custody Act 1985 * The Maintenance Orders (Reciprocal Enforcement) Act 1972 * The Law Reform (Parent and Child) Act 1986 * The Bankruptcy (Scotland) Act 1985, the Insolvency Act 1986 and the Companies Act 1985 * The Arbitration Act
• 1975. The State Immunity Act 1978.
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This is the standard Scottish work on private international law, containing full coverage of this complex area. * Comprehensive treatment of private international law in relation to Scotland * Full of practical advice.
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• Treason
• Leasing-making
• Parricide
• Murder
• Of tumult within burgh
• Of piracy
• Of forgery
• Of breaking of gardens
• Of incest
• Of adultery
• Of fornication
• Of blasphemy
• Of other crimes against religion and the state
• Witchcraft
• Appendix.

• Treason
• Leasing-making
• Parricide
• Murder
• Of tumult within Burgh
• Of piracy
• Of forgery
• Of breaking of gardens
• Of incest
• Of adultery
• Of fornication
• Of blasphemy
• Of other crimes against religion and the state
• Witchcraft

Covers criminal trials in Scotland from 1536 to 1784. Some of the trials included in the collection are those of Archibald Douglass, Robert Logan, Andrew Crichton, John Stewart, John Dickson, Agnes Johnston, Andrew Rutherford, George Clerk, John Ramsay, and James Gray

• * Introduction * Fundamental human rights * Liberty and security of the person * Right to a fair and public hearing * Rights in criminal law * The right to private and family life and the right to marry and found a family * Freedom of thought and expression * Freedom of association and assembly * Freedom from discrimination * Article 1 of Protocol 1 - right to property * Article 2 of Protocol 1 - right to education * Right to an effective remedy * Domestic law and the convention * The international context.
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Human Rights and Scots Law is a straightforward account of the legal protection of human rights in Scotland. The book concentrates on those areas where substantive or procedural rules are different from the rest of the UK. With explanation of the relevant Convention rights, the book looks at the jurisprudence of the European Court on Human Rights and considers the effect of incorporating the European Convention on Human Rights on some aspects of current Scots law, with discussion of English law where appropriate. Human Rights and Scots Law considers developments brought about by the Scotland Act 1998, the Human Rights Act 1998, the European Convention on Human Rights, the Freedom of Information Act 2000 and the Regulation of Investigatory Powers (Scotland) Act 2000. An ideal introduction to the subject for law students, this book provides much needed coverage of what is an important and expanding area of the law in Scotland.
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• Introduction. I. Some Puzzles about the Nature of Law. II. Connecting Law and Society. III. A Constitutional Culture. IV. The Style of Scots Law. V. The Style of Scots Law Continued. VI. And so to Ideology. VII. Matters of Interpretation. VIII. Law in Whose Terms? IX. And What Kind of System? X. The Language of the Law. XI. Some Different Critiques. XII. The Role of Reason. XIII. Weaving the Threads. Index of Authors.
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"The Tapestry of the Law" brings together a study of a particular legal system - that of Scotland - with a number of (mainly contemporary) theories of or about law. Rather than endorsing any one legal theory, it ends with some tentative conclusions about legal theory itself. It is written for all those interested in the law, whether in the academic context, as practitioners of law or politics, or from the lay point of view, but primarily with students in mind. At this level, chapters II to VI provide an information base for those embarking on courses in comparative law or politics, whilst the whole, and especially the later chapters, will offer most to those who already have some grounding in the issues with which jurisprudence is concerned.
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