The Scottish Legal System

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Megan Dewart is an Advocate at Axiom Advocates. Megan called to the Bar in 2019 as the Lord Reid Scholar 2018-2019. Prior to this she worked for three years as Law Clerk to the Lord President, Lord Carloway. During that time, she assisted with all aspects of his work as an appellate judge in both civil and criminal cases, including many commercial and public law appeals. Megan previously trained and practised as a solicitor at Simpson & Marwick.

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The Scottish Legal System presents the legal system and law of Scotland as unique and constantly changing and covers not only the central aspects of the system, such as the courts and the legal profession, but also the common areas with constitutional law and jurisprudence.

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1 Introduction 2 Scotland nation and state 3 Institutions the constitutional background 4 Institutions courts, tribunals, judges and procedure 5 Sources of law 6 Legislation European Union law 7 Legislation United Kingdom Parliamentary legislation (including the Human Rights Act 1998) 8 Legislation Acts of the Scottish Parliament 9 Legislation United Kingdom delegated legislation 10 Legislation Scottish delegated legislation 11 Legislation application, construction and interpretation: statutory interpretation 12 Precedent ratio decidendi, obiter dicta and stare decisis 13 Precedent law reports 14 Legal services 15 Law reform Appendix 1 - A note on the nature of rules Appendix 2 - Scottish Courts (simplified) English and Welsh Courts (simplified) Northern Ireland Courts (simplified) Appendix 3 - 'Europe'