Megan Dewart

The Scottish Legal System

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The Scottish Legal System presents the legal system and law of Scotland as unique and constantly changing and covers not only the central aspects of the system, such as the courts and the legal profession, but also the common areas with constitutional law and jurisprudence.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• 7th edition
• Seitenzahl: 472
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Mai 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781526526649
• ISBN-10: 1526526646
• Artikelnr.: 70289565

Autorenporträt

Megan H Dewart

Inhaltsangabe

1 Introduction
2 Scotland - nation and state
3 Institutions - the constitutional background
4 Institutions - courts, tribunals, judges and procedure
5 Sources of law
6 Legislation - European Union law
7 Legislation - United Kingdom Parliamentary legislation (including the
Human Rights Act 1998)
8 Legislation - Acts of the Scottish Parliament
9 Legislation - United Kingdom delegated legislation
10 Legislation - Scottish delegated legislation
11 Legislation - application, construction and interpretation: statutory
interpretation
12 Precedent - ratio decidendi, obiter dicta and stare decisis
13 Precedent - law reports
14 Legal services
15 Law reform
Appendix 1 - A note on the nature of rules
Appendix 2 - Scottish Courts (simplified)
English and Welsh Courts (simplified)
Northern Ireland Courts (simplified)
Appendix 3 - 'Europe'