Scots law

Kevin Crombie: Scottish Law Online

www.scottishlaw.org.uk

Easily the most comprehensive resource on Scottish law topics on the web: this long-established site has it all including an A to Z of Scottish law and Scottish student resources.

Absolvitor

www.absolvitor.com

Recently revamped site by Iain Nisbet concentrating on Scottish aspects. Not as big as Kevin Crombie’s but has different feel to it and some resources not found elsewhere. Worth a look.

Intute: social sciences

www.intute.ac.uk/socialsciences/cgi-bin/browse.pl?id=120877

Links to over 60 resources concerned with Scottish law and related matters.

Scottish Law Commission

www.scotlawcom.gov.uk

Excellent revised site with full details of the programme of the Commission (official law reform body) together with full text of all recent reports and papers and many of the older copies too: often a very fruitful start for research.

Scots Law News

www.law.ed.ac.uk/sln

Irregular but frequent news concerning matters Scots law from Hector McQueen of Edinburgh University.

The Edinburgh Law Review

www.law.ed.ac.uk/elr/

Contains synopses of articles, usually with a Scots law bent, in this thrice-yearly, high quality, academic journal.

Scottish Parliament

www.scottish.parliament.uk

This large site contains information about all aspects of the Scottish legislature including the texts of Bills and explanatory notes, the official Parliamentary reports and webcasting of the Parliament: for the text of Scottish legislation: go to www.opsi.gov.uk/legislation/scotland/about.htm.

Scottish Executive

www.scotland.gov.uk

Among other things, contains a wealth of official documentary material including consultation papers on legislative changes.