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Legal skills and debates in Scotland
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Acknowledgements

This free course was written by Carol Howells.

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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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