Gerry Maher and Barry J Rodger, CIVIL JURISDICTION IN THE SCOTTISH COURTS Edinburgh: W Green (www.wgreen.co.uk), 2010. liv +418 pp. ISBN 9780414013681. £140.

AuthorKirsty J Hood
DOI10.3366/elr.2012.0093
Published date01 January 2012
Date01 January 2012
Pages134-135

One would expect a comprehensive, practical, work on jurisdiction to be ever-present on the litigator's library shelf. After all, it is a truism that, whether ultimately it proves to be a tricky issue in a case, or whether uncontroversial, jurisdiction must always be considered by the litigator prior to raising an action. However, even to leaf through the pages of Duncan and Dykes on The Principles of Civil Jurisdiction as applied in the Law of Scotland (1911) is to appreciate not just the scale of legal change, but even of political and social shifts, in the century which has now elapsed since its publication. It was not simply that the European Union (an important source of jurisdictional rules in recent times) did not then exist, but neither did the political landscape from which it sprang. Many layers of legislation, and countless cases, have accumulated since 1911. Accordingly, the publication of Professor Maher and Professor Rodger's new, single volume, work, Civil Jurisdiction in the Scottish Courts is timely, and very much to be welcomed. The work is aimed firmly at the practitioner, and forms part of the “Greens Practice Library” series.

The authors have adopted a logical framework which allows proper discussion of their subject, yet have managed to combine this with an emphasis on the practical application of its rules...

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