Human Rights and Scots Law

✍ Scribed by Chris Himsworth, Hector MacQueen, Alan Boyle, Andrea Loux

• Publisher: Hart Publishing
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 406
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book, written by a team of academics, judges and distinguished practitioners from the UK and abroad discusses the implications of the incorporation of the ECHR into Scots law. The contributors consider the impact of the Human Rights Act in light of the new constitutional settlement for Scotland and their experiences of other rights regimes in Europe, the Commonwealth, and the United States. The contributions span the fields of Private, Public, European Community and Comparative law and draw on human rights law and practice in the UK, the European Community, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa, the United States and Sweden, where the ECHR was recently incorporated. Topics include: analyses of the Human Rights Act and Scotland Act; human rights and the law of crime, property, employment, family and private life; Scottish court practice and procedure; Scots law and the European dimension; and building a rights culture in Scotland.

✦ Table of Contents

Table of Treaties and other Instruments......Page 1
Preface......Page 7
Contents......Page 9
Abbreviations......Page 11
Table of Cases......Page 15
Table of National Legislation......Page 35
1 Human Rights and Scots Law Introduction......Page 51
2 Human Rights Devolution and Public Law......Page 59
3 The Hamebringing Devolving Rights Seriously......Page 69
4 The Role of the Advocate General for Scotland......Page 89
5 Constitutionalising the Role of the Judge Scotland and the New Order......Page 107
6 Judicial Review Locus Standi and Remedies the Impact of the Human Rights Act......Page 133
7 The Swedish Experience of the ECHR Since Incorporation......Page 155
8 Private Rights Private Law and the Private Domain......Page 191
9 Charting the Impact of Rights and Equality Discourse on Canadian Family Law......Page 227
10 Incorporation of the European Convention on Human Rights What Will it Mean for Scotland’s Children......Page 251
11 Attitudes to Sexual Identity and Practice The Impact of Human Rights Law in Scottish Courts......Page 275
12 Medical Law and Human Rights Passing the Parcel Back to the Profession......Page 295
13 The Protection of Property Rights......Page 325
14 The Human Rights Act and the Criminal Law An Overview of the Early Case Law......Page 343
15 The European Convention on Human Rights and Scots Criminal Law......Page 357
16 Writing Wrongs Third party Intervention Post incorporation......Page 379
Afterword to Chapter 12......Page 393
Appendix to Chapter 9......Page 395
Index......Page 397