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Law and change: Scottish legal heroes Badge icon
Society, Politics & Law

Law and change: Scottish legal heroes

...cast any doubt on their complete impartiality, and that judges should avoid issues which were or might become politically controversial’. Lord Hope of Craighead was appointed as Lord President of the Court of Session in 1989 and became one of the founding justices of the UK Supreme Court on 1 October 2009. As Lord President, he controversially permitted an experiment in...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Astronomy with an online telescope Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Astronomy with an online telescope

...cast from your images. Try experimenting until you get the effect that you want. You can save the edited image when you are happy with the adjustments that you have made. To save your edited image, click on the floppy disk icon top right (E). Select Image and then Save File to save a copy of the image to your computer. Remember to keep a note of where you have saved it...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Legal skills and debates in Scotland Badge icon
Society, Politics & Law

Legal skills and debates in Scotland

...cast no aspersions on Lord Hardie’s judicial integrity. In our scenario the judge should not hear the case. c.The facts are based on similar facts in Lawal v Northern Spirit [2003] UKHL 35, whereby an advocate who had returned to his own practice having been chair of an EAT found himself appearing as an advocate before lay members of an EAT, with whom he had worked...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Understanding mental capacity Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Understanding mental capacity

...cast doubts on claims about the absolute nature of parents' rights over an underage girl. "Parental rights are derived from parental duty and exists so long as they're needed for the protection of the person and property of the child." Lord Bridge, the third judge reversing the appeal court decision, held, "It could not be contrary to public policy to prescribe...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Introducing the voluntary sector Badge icon
Money & Business

Introducing the voluntary sector

...caste differences among them. It should be noted that the typology does not include an analysis of the most significant roadblocks to achieving genuine levels of participation. These roadblocks lie on both sides of the simplistic fence. On the powerholders’ side, they include racism, paternalism, and resistance to power redistribution. On the have-nots’ side, they...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Physical and mental health for young children
Education & Development

Physical and mental health for young children

...casting long shadows forward because not only did they affect children's health, but it also affected them into their adult health as well. Then in 1980, the report Inequalities in Health was published for a major report on the health and well being across the country. That report told us that not only were those inequalities in health between poorer and wealthier areas...
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Level 1: Introductory 20 hrs
Exploring learning disabilities: supporting belonging Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring learning disabilities: supporting belonging

...casts a long shadow, and is one of the reasons that the question of equal rights is a sensitive one. Not so long ago, many people with learning disabilities were deprived of the right to freedom, and for some it is still under threat. In this session you explored: the different ways learning disabilities have been viewed since the 18th century life for people with...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
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Education & Development

Becoming an ethical researcher

...cast light on many aspects of human behaviour, to look again at the ordinary and the extraordinary. You may be about to become such a researcher, have had some experience already or be interested in evaluating such research as a reader. Carrying out research with people, whatever their age or position and wherever you are in the world, means you have a duty to act...
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Level 3: Advanced 18 hrs