The Laws of Scotland Stair Memorial Encyclopaedia

Publisher: LexisNexis U.K.
ISBN: 9780406048493
Published In: January 1991
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: Scotland ? Disclaimer:
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A LEXISNEXIS/LAW SOCIETY OF SCOTLAND JOINT PUBLICATION

COMPLETE SET

The Stair Memorial Encyclopaedia provides the only comprehensive narrative statement of the law of Scotland. Written by leading lawyers - both practitioners and academics - and other professionals, including doctors, surveyors and historians, the Encyclopaedia ranks among that select group of publications which is cited with approval before the courts. Containing over 130 titles in 25 volumes and Reissue binders, it covers the whole spectrum of Scots law, from Administrative Law, through Criminal Law, Obligations and Property, to Wills and Succession. Stair Memorial Encyclopaedia incorporates law derived from every source and, while concentrating on the specialities of Scots law, also covers law common to the whole of the United Kingdom.

The Encyclopaedia is arranged alphabetically by title and each title is broken down into convenient and logical numbered sections in which the substantive law is summarised. Each statement of law is supported by citation of authority, and there are copious references to sources of further information, both primary and secondary, to ensure the reader has detailed information to hand. Stair Memorial Encyclopaedia is thoroughly indexed to make it clear and easy to use. Each individual title has its own index, and a consolidated index of the complete work is available. Similarly, each volume contains tables of cases, statutes, and statutory instruments for those titles it covers and consolidated tables for the whole work are available.

The Stair Memorial Encyclopaedia titles are kept up-to-date each year by two service elements - the Reissue Service and the Updating Service. Together these provide a comprehensive updating service.

REISSUE SERVICE Individual titles are revised and reissued as necessary to take into account changes in the law. Revised or completely new titles are reissued as booklets with their own tables and index and are housed in binders. A number of Reissue titles are published in each subscription year under the General Editorship of Niall R Whitty, Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Edinburgh and former Scottish Law Commissioner. The Reissue service is charged annually.

UPDATING SERVICE Both original titles which have not yet been reissued and reissued titles are updated by a noter-up service. The Updating service maintains the currency of the Encyclopaedia by providing detailed additions and amendments, paragraph-by-paragraph. During the service subscription year the noter-up is published in March as a cumulative supplement which, in turn, is updated at four-monthly intervals by a cumulative noter-up in looseleaf form. The Updating service is charged annually.

REVISED TABLES Revised cumulative tables and indexes are published annually and are charged for separately on publication.

MAIN WORK -
As at July 2010 the main work comprises:

* Volumes 1 to 25 (Note: volumes 9 and 21 are out of print and will not be reprinted as all the titles in it have been reissued) and

* Reissue Binder 1 containing:
Issue Prelims 9/7;
Administrative Law;
Advertising;
Agency and Mandate;
Agriculture;
Animals;
Arbitration;
Armed Forces;
Aviation;

* Reissue Binder 2 containing:
Banking, Money and Commercial Paper;
Bankruptcy;
Betting, Gaming and Lotteries;
Carriage;

* Reissue Binder 3 containing:
Charities;
Child and Family Law;
Civil Procedure;
Communications;

* Reissue Binder 4 containing:
Competition Law;
Compulsory Acquisition and Compensation;
Constitutional Law;
Consumer Protection;

* Reissue Binder 5 containing:
Conveyancing;
Corporate Insolvency;
Criminal Law;

* Reissue Binder 6 containing:
Criminal Procedure 2nd Reissue;
Crofting;
Education;
Electricity;
Employment;

* Reissue Binder 7 containing:
Energy;
Entertainment;
Environment;
Evidence;
Fire and Rescue Services;

* Reissue Binder 8 containing:
Fireams and Explosives;
Food Law;
Gambling;
General Legal Concepts;
Health Services;
Human Rights;
Immigration;

* Reissue Binder 9 containing:
Leasing and Hire of Moveables;
Liquor Licensing;
Local Government;
Medical Law;
Medicines Poisons & Drugs;
Nationality and Citizenship;

* Reissue Binder 10 containing:
Nuisance;
Penal Establishments;
Pensions;
Police;
Public International Law;
Public Registers and Records;
Railways, Canals and Tramways;
Road Traffic;
Roads;
Sea and Continental Shelf;

* Reissue Binder 11 containing:
Shipping and Navigation;
Social Security;
Trade Unions and Trade Disputes;

* Consolidated Index 2009;
* Consolidated Table of Cases 2009;
* Consolidated Table of Statutes etc 2009;

New subscribers to the main work also receive:
*Cumulative Supplement 2009 (2 volumes).

Publication completed in 1996 under the General Editorship of Robert Black, QC, LLB, LLM, Professor of Scots Law, University of Edinburgh. Deputy general editors: Hamish McN Henderson, MA, LLB, Advocate in Aberdeen, Formerly University Fellow and Senior Lecturer in Scots Law, University of Edinburgh; Joseph M Thomson, LLB, FRSE, Regius Professor of Law, University of Glasgow; and Kenneth Miller, LLB, LLM, PhD, Professor of Law, University of Strathclyde. General Editor of the Reissues is Niall R Whitty, MA, LLB, FRSE, Visiting Professor of Law, University of Edinburgh