CHILDREN'S RIGHTS IN SCOTLAND. Ed by Alison Cleland and Elaine E Sutherland Edinburgh: W Green, 3rd edn, 2009. xivii + 392 pp. ISBN 9780414015906. £45.
| Author | Jane Mair |
| DOI | 10.3366/elr.2011.0013 |
| Published date | 01 January 2011 |
| Date | 01 January 2011 |
| Pages | 153-154 |
That there is a third edition of this book, first published in 1996, and that it contains so much new material, is evidence if such were needed that children's rights continue to be a “dynamic and evolving” (para 3–44) aspect of Scots law and Scottish society. The book is a balance between the familiar and the new, combining updated topics by existing authors, together with additional chapters and new contributors.
Although the focus of this collection is Scots law, its analysis is situated firmly within an international context, “highlighting the extent to which the European Convention on Human Rights … and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child … have had an impact in Scotland” (para 1–01). In chapter 3, John Grant and Elaine Sutherland set out in helpful detail the international legal framework for Scots law, and in the final chapter, there is up to date analysis of the monitoring and enforcing of children's international human rights. Both of these contributions establish the European and international context against which the other contributions, dealing with particular aspects of children's rights, can assess “how close Scots law has come to real and meaningful compliance with...
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