Scotland's Mental Health and Capacity Law: A Case for Reform
Report
Stavert, J., & McKay, C. (2017)
Scotland's Mental Health and Capacity Law: A Case for Reform. Edinburgh: Mental Welfare Commission for Scotland
Report of joint Mental Welfare Commission for Scotland and Centre for Mental Health and Capacity Law law reform scoping exercise.
Serving Best Interests in ‘Known Biological Father Disputes’ in the United Kingdom
Book Chapter
Macfarlane, L. (2016)
Serving Best Interests in ‘Known Biological Father Disputes’ in the United Kingdom. In E. E. Sutherland, & L. A. B. MacFarlane (Eds.), Implementing Article 3 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child : best interests, welfare and well-being (149-164). (1). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press
Article 3 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child provides that in ‘all actions concerning children’ the ‘best interests of the child shall be a primary consideration’...
Human trafficking and the Rome statute of the International Criminal Court.
Journal Article
Moran, C. (2014)
Human trafficking and the Rome statute of the International Criminal Court. The Age of Human Rights Journal, 3, 32-45
The case for extending the reach of the Rome Statute to the crime of human trafficking has not yet been made in detail. The brutality which occurs when human beings are traffi...
Butterworths Scottish Family Law Service: Child Law Division 2005-2010
Other
Macfarlane, L. (2005)
Butterworths Scottish Family Law Service: Child Law Division 2005-2010
Loose leaf manual for specialist child and family law practitioners.
Psychiatric patients, detention in conditions of excessive security, and the UK Supreme Court.
Journal Article
Stavert, J. (2014)
Psychiatric patients, detention in conditions of excessive security, and the UK Supreme Court. SCOLAG legal journal, 436, 30
Jill Stavert provides a note on the judgement of the Supreme Court in G(AP) v Scottish Ministers.
Crystallising the International Rule of Law: Trump’s Accidental Contribution to International Law
Journal Article
Moran, C. F. (2017)
Crystallising the International Rule of Law: Trump’s Accidental Contribution to International Law. Washburn Law Journal, 56(3), 491-506
No abstract available.
An overview of changing legislaiton for Additional Support Needs
Presentation / Conference
Macfarlane, L. (2010, January)
An overview of changing legislaiton for Additional Support Needs. Paper presented at Additional Support Needs Conference: CLT
No abstract available.
Employer Responses to Dementia in the Workplace in Scotland
Report
Stavert, J., Egdell, V., Ritchie, L., Danson, M., Cook, M., & Tolson, D. (2018)
Employer Responses to Dementia in the Workplace in Scotland. Scotland: Edinburgh Napier University
The reported study investigated how Scottish-based employers from different sectors respond to staff with dementia. Dementia is, and will increasingly be, a workplace issue as...
Threshold point utilisation in juror decision-making
Journal Article
Curley, L. J., MacLean, R., Murray, J., Pollock, A. C., & Laybourn, P. (2019)
Threshold point utilisation in juror decision-making. Psychiatry, Psychology and Law, 26(1), 110-128. https://doi.org/10.1080/13218719.2018.1485520
The current research aimed to identify whether a model of juror decision making (i.e. the threshold model) that encompasses both rational and intuitive decision making exists....
Mental health, incapacity and the law in Scotland.
Book
Stavert, J., & Patrick, H. (2016)
Mental health, incapacity and the law in Scotland. Bloomsbury Publishing
This highly regarded book is a comprehensive and up to date guide to mental health law in Scotland. Every aspect of mental health law is explained, including tribunal procedur...