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Law and change: Scottish legal heroes
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This free course was written by Carol Howells and Edwin Parks.

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Course image: © funkyfood London – Paul Williams/Alamy Stock Photo

Week 1

Figure 4: © Scottish Government

Figure 6: (c) Scottish Parliament Corporate Body

Figure 7: (John Peter Photography/Alamy)

Figure 8: (The Supreme Court http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/ (c) Crown)

Figure 10: © OOC

Figure 11: © OOC

Figure 12: © OOC

Figure 13: © OOC

Figure 14: © OOC

Figure 15: https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2011/10/world-war-ii-after-the-war/100180/

Figure 16: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belfast_Blitz

Figure 17: © keystone/Getty Images

Figure 18: © Trinity Mirror/Mirrorpix/Alamy Stock Image

Figure 19 © Elenarts/Shutterstock

Figure 21: © OLI SCARFF/AFP/Getty Images

Figure 22: © Glen Photo/ Shutterstock

Figure 23: © Cezary Wejtkowski /Shutterstock

Figure 24: © CIW1/Shutterstock.com

Figure 25: © Viastas/ Shutterstock

Figure 26: © Glen Photo/ Shutterstock

Week 2

Figure 1: https://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/david-i-of-scotland-6293.php

Figure 2 Taken from handwritten copy of The Regiam Majestatem.

Figure 3: Taken from handwritten copy of The Regiam Majestatem.

Figure 4: National Gallery of Scotland.

Figure 5: © Chronicle/Alamy Stock Photo.

Figure 6: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_VI_and_I

Figure 7: http://www.legislation.gov.uk

Figure 8: Ronnie Leask, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=19152839

Figure 9: Ian G Dagnall/Alamy Stock Photo

Figure 10: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_VI_and_I

Figure 11: John McGovern/Alamy Stock Photo and © Gerald Blaikie 2018

Figure 13: By Scottish Parliament http://collections.europarchive.org/ukparliament/20090701100701/http://www.parliament.uk/actofunion/actofunion_interactive.html, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=8105620

Figure 14: © OOC

Figure 15: http://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?handle=hein.stair/intscot0001&div=1

Figure 16: http://stairsociety.org/about/viscount_stair/

Figure 17: Bridgeman Art Library

Week 3

Figure 1: © Navan Mistry/Alamy Stock Photo

Figure 2: © Wig Worland /Alamy

Figure 7: © Sergey Komarov-Kohl/Alamy Stock Photo

Figure 9: © Mark Ferguson/fotoLibra

Week 4

Figure 2: http://www.scottishlawreports.org.uk/resources/dvs/most-famous-litigant.html

Figure 4: http://www.scottishlawreports.org.uk/

Figure 6: http://www.scottishlawreports.org.uk/resources/dvs/mrs-donoghue-journey.html

Week 5

Figure 2: www.deadlinenews.co.uk/2010/09/21/sheriffs-boycott-kirking-of-the-court-ceremony-in-edinburgh/

Figure 3: www.deadlinenews.co.uk/2010/09/21/sheriffs-boycott-kirking-of-the-court-ceremony-in-edinburgh/

Figure 4: www.law.hku.hk/

Figure 6: Janine Wiedel Photolibrary/Alamy Stock Photo

Figure 7: www.emaze.com/@AQCCLTCZ/Donoghue-v-Stevenson

Week 6

Figure 1: www.signsofthesigners.com/map.php?s=15

Figure 2: www.scottishgolfhistory.org/origin-of-golf-terms/rules-of-golf/Figure 2: http://www.scottishgolfhistory.org/origin-of-golf-terms/rules-of-golf/

Figure 4: © Andrew Brown

Figure 5 © The Scottish Parliament

Figure 7: © NHS https://nhsforthvalley.com/scots-urged-to-make-organ-donation-week-count/

Figure 8: © Jeff Gilbert/Alamy Stock Photo

Figure 9: © Radharc Images/Alamy Stock Photo

Figure 10: © law.du.edu/judge-david-edward-oral-history

Figure 11: Allan MacRae

Figure 12: © The Sphere, 13 March 1926, The British Newspaper Archive [Dame Margaret Henderson]

Figure 13: © PA Images

Week 7

Figure 1: © Scottish Public Service Ombudsman

Week 8

Figure 1: © Scottish Parliament TV www.scottishparliament.tv/

Figure 2: © Scottish Parliament Corporate Body

Figure 3: © Scottish Parliament Corporate Body

Figure 5: www.parliament.uk/

Figure 6: © Tahir Hashmi

Figure 8: © Open Parliament Licence

Figure 9: © The Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body (SPCB)

Figure 10 © SWNS

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