Education Policies Lack Focus

Continuing Miscarriage of Justice
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Human Rights – less protection in Scotland?
Muriel Robison, Director of Legal Affairs Scotland, Equal Opportunities Commission

Critical Problems in Legal Education
Alistair J Bonnington takes some pot shots at current legal education

Innocence Projects
Dr Michael Naughton on the work of The Innocence Network UK

Legal Education & Party Policy
All the political parties represented in the Parliament are invited to address the question of university education in general and legal education in particular

Legislation
Continuing the SCOLAG update of relevant legislation last appearing at 2006 SCOLAG 181

Employment Law
A review of some recent significant employment law cases by Robyn McIlroy, Senior Associate with Pinsent Masons solicitors.

Administrative Law
Part one of a review of significant welfare law and other relevant cases from Scotland and England (last appearing in July 2006) by Robert Sutherland, Advocate. This collection covers decisions issued to the end of August 2006. Part two - “Extradition cases” will appear next month .

Chiara Rustici reviews:
Employment Law - An adviser’s handbook (6th Edition)
Tamara Lewis
£28.00, LAG, 2005

Dr. Bryan Clark reviews:
Company Law (2nd edition).
Ben Pettet
£33.99, Longman, 2005

Jacqueline Tombs reviews:
The New Punitiveness: trends, theories, perspectives
John Pratt et al (eds)
£45.00 & £22.00, Willan, 2005

Lesley-Anne Barnes reviews:
Scottish Legal System
Bryan Clark
£13.50, Dundee University Press 2006

Brian Dempsey reviews:
Whose Justice? The law and the left
Colin Fox, Gregor Gall & John Scott (eds)
£6.99, Scottish Left Review Press, 2006

Donald Urquhart reviews:
Handbook of Crime Prevention & Community Safety
Nick Tilley (ed)
£65.00 & £29.95, Willan Publishing, 2005

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