Issue 342 - April 2006
2006 SCOLAG 65 - 84
 
Editorial

3 Steps to Increase Access to Justice

Blood-borne Infections

Benefiting Workers
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Current Consultations [click here for full version]
 
News
 
Article
Problems With the Bill
Caroline Flanagan, President of the Law Society of Scotland, warns of the danger of “advice deserts”
 
Law Updates

Legislation
Continuing the SCOLAG update of relevant legislation last appearing at 2006 SCOLAG 56

 
Housing Law
An update on housing law developments by Derek O’Carroll, advocate, including a digest of cases on housing law reported or decided between September 2005 and March 2006, and legislation passed between September 2005 and March 2006
 
Administrative Law
A continuing review of significant welfare law and other relevant cases from Scotland and England (last appearing in January 2006) by Robert Sutherland, Advocate. This collection covers decisions issued to the end of February 2006.
 
Book Reviews

Hilary Patrick reviews:
Seminal Issues in Mental Health Law
Jill Peay (Ed)
£135.00, Ashgate Publishing 2005
&
Mental Health (Care & Treatment) (Scotland) Act 2003
Ronald A Franks and David Cobb
£49.50, W Green, 2005

Alison Cleland reviews:
Youth Justice: Critical Readings
J Muncie, G Hughes and E McLaughlin(Eds)
£19.99, Sage & Open University, 2002

Duncan Spears reviews:
Intellectual Property in Practice
Thomas E. Hays and Claire C. Milne
£75.00, Thomson, Green, 2004

Iain Nisbet reviews:
Children’s Hearings in Scotland (2nd Ed)
Kenneth McK. Norrie
£45.00, W Green, 2005

 

Events Diary [click here for full version]