Megan Dewart is Law Clerk to Lord Carloway Lord President and is a tutor in law at Edinburgh University.

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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’