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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Scots law"”.
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From use to law: the judicial recognition of community customary rights in Britain in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
… custom litigation lies at the interface between law and community praxis. Customary rights are created ‘in fact’ by the praxis of a community, but once contested are recognised as creating ‘local law’ (England) or ‘legal rights’ (Scotland) by the courts. The submitted works explore this …
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Child Pornography on the Internet: A Comparative Study of Saudi Arabian and Scots Laws
… differences between the two jurisdictions, Saudi law can be developed and learn from Scots law in relation to online child pornography crime. This thesis examines the differences between the Saudi Arabian and Scottish criminal legal systems with regard to child pornography, placing particular …
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The perspectives of stakeholders regarding evidence-based practice in the delivery of care to children who were sexually abused
… Convention on the Rights of the Child into Scots law to give effect to international efforts that protect children's rights. Despite these efforts, challenges such as child sexual abuse persist, not only in Scotland, but also globally. Child sexual abuse has a complex recovery process which …
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The abandonment of landownership: a proposed model for regulated exit
… landownership is unresolved in South African law. The subject has only rarely been the subject of attention by scholars, with legislation and existing case law providing little in the way of clear guidance. This lack of clarity is obviously not ideal. In South Africa landowners may find …
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Mental health service users’, carers’ and professionals’ perceptions of the named person provisions of the Mental Health (Care and Treatment) (Scotland) Act 2003
… being appointed by default (itself an anomaly in Scots law) which threatens human rights, because of the lack of choice of the service user about who is involved in their care and their inability to prevent the sharing of confidential information with the default named person. The current lack of …
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Violence, Legal Culture and Social Control: The Records of Scotland’s Justiciary Court, 1493–1558
… confirm and enhance existing arguments about law, society and administration in premodern Scotland. The language used to describe violent offences reveals that whether an act of violence was interpreted as a legitimate or illegitimate use of force depended heavily on context, brutality and …