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Introduction and guidance
Course image: georgeclerk/iStockphoto.com
Week 1
Figure 1: © Unknown
Figure 2: © ballabhyadav/Dreamstime
Figure 3: © PeopleImages/Getty Images; Middle: Image courtesy of WoodyH1 of Flickr https://creativecommons.org/ licenses/ by/ 2.0/ ; Right: Loop Images Ltd/Alamy Images
Middle: left: © Unknown; Middle: © Getty Images ; Right:© arturbo/Getty Images
Bottom left: © Crown Copyright https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ doc/ open-government-licence/ version/ 3/ ; Right: © BBC : http://www.bbc.co.uk/ news/ uk-scotland-38639858
Figure 5: © Surface13 in Flickr https://creativecommons.org/ licenses/ by-nc-nd/ 2.0/
Figure 6: © Unknown
Figure 7: © Jane 0606/Shutterstock.com
Figure 8: © Unknown/public domain
Figure 10: © Chris Bacon/PA Archive/Press Association Images
Week 2
Box 1: extract: Section 29 of The Scotland Act 1998 amended © Crown Copyright http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ doc/ open-government-licence/ version/ 3/
Box 2: extract Section 28 of The Scotland Act 1998 amended © Crown Copyright http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ doc/ open-government-licence/ version/ 3/
Box 3: extract Section 35 of The Scotland Act 1998 amended © Crown Copyright http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ doc/ open-government-licence/ version/ 3/
Box 4 and Box 5: : extracts of Interpretation and Legislative Reform (Scotland) Act 2010 Schedule 1 © Crown Copyright The National Archives; http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ doc/ open-government-licence/ version/ 3/
Figure 2: Top left: Billy Currie Photography/Getty Images top right: public domain https://en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/ Parliament_of_Scotland#/ media/ File:Downsitting_of_the_Scottish_Parliament_detail.JPG; Bottom left: © Crown Copyright http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ information-management/ re-using-public-sector-information/ uk-government-licensing-framework/; Bottom right: © Crown Copyright http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ doc/ open-government-licence/ version/ 3/
Figure 3: © Stus Cartoons www.stus.com
Figure 4: Top left: © Crown copyright http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ information-management/ re-using-public-sector-information/ uk-government-licensing-framework/ ; Top right: © Sergey Goryachev/Shutterstock.com ; Bottom left: © Billy Currie Photography/Getty Images; Bottom right: © Claire Doherty/ Alamy
Figure 5: extract (screenshot) National Galleries of Scotland Act (2016) © Crown Copyright. Content available under http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ doc/ open-government-licence/ version/ 3/
Figure 6: © Crown Copyright / Scottish Parliament Corporate Body; Contains information licenced under the Scottish Parliament Copyright Licence; http://www.parliament.scot/ Fol/ ScottishParliamentLicence20160404.pdf
Week 3
Figure 1:
1. Universal Images Group/Getty Images
2. By Chiltepinster (Wikimedia Commons) http://creativecommons.org/ licenses/ by-sa/ 3.0
3. From: https://giphy.com/ search/ argument
4. © BBC: from http://www.bbc.co.uk/ news/ uk-scotland-scotland-politics-39995184
5. © BBC
6. © Unknown
7. © Trinity Mirror/Mirrorpix/Alamy
8. © olilyy/Shutterstock.com
Figure 6:
1. Photo © Crown Copyright https://www.scotcourts.gov.uk/ the-courts/ supreme-courts/ high-court/ about-the-high-court
2. Reuters
3. © Crown Copyright , Judiciary of Scotland http://www.scotland-judiciary.org.uk/ 1/ 0/ Home
4. © Mark Kerrison/Alamy Stock Photo
Week 5
Figure 1: courtesy Brian McGuire http://www.paisley.org.uk/
Figure 3: courtesy Margaret D Hagan, Director of Stanford Legal Design Lab
Week 6
Box 2: Preamble to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (United Nations)
Box 4: extract from Human Rights Act (1998) © Crown Copyright http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ doc/ open-government-licence/ version/ 3/
Box 5: From: The Equality and Human Rights Commission website https://www.equalityhumanrights.com/ en May 31 2017 (c) Crown Copyright http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ doc/ open-government-licence/ version/ 3/
Figure 1: © unknown
Figure 2: “Universal Declaration of Human Rights” Reprinted with the permission of the United Nations.
Figure 3: From: http://www.conventions.coe.int/ © Council of Europe
Figure 4: Logo: © Council of Europe
Figure 5: adapted from the publication by the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, International Business Leaders Forum and the Castan Centre for Human Rights Law, Human Rights Translated: A Business Reference Guide (2008)
Figure 6: Logo: Scottish National Action Plan for Human Rights http://www.scottishhumanrights.com/ scotlands-national-action-plan/
Week 7
Boxes 1 and 2: extracts from Age of Legal Capacity (Scotland) Act 1991 http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ ukpga/ 1991/ 50/ contents © Crown Copyright http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ doc/ open-government-licence/ version/ 3/
Box 3: extract from: Scottish Government website (2016) © Crown Copyright
Figure 1: Left to right: (1) Science Photo Library /Alamy; (2) dgdphotography/Alamy; (3) Elizabeth Leyden/Alamy; (4) coolife/Alamy; (5) Charles Bowman/ Alamy; (6) Ian Hooton/SPL/Alamy; (7) Terri Lee-Shield Photography/ Alamy; (8) Science Photo Library/Alamy
Figure 3: Top left: courtesy: Andrew Knowles/RegentHistory.net ; Top right: © Ian Border
Bottom left: photo: © Chronicle/Alamy; Bottom right: © photo: unknown
Figure 4: picturesbyrob//Alamy
Week 8
Box 1: extract from article 6 of European Convention of Human Rights, Council of Europe http://www.echr.coe.int
Box 6: extract from: Hutchinson (1988)
Figure 1: Left : (c) ER-09/Shutterstock; Middle: © unknown; Right: https://pixabay.com/ en/ case-law-lady-justice-justice-right-677940/
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