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Issues of Rights and Capacity: child and adolescent medical decisions (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Macfarlane, L. (2015, November). Issues of Rights and Capacity: child and adolescent medical decisions. Paper presented at Royal College of Psychiatrists in Scotland, Child and Adolescent Faculty Conference

No abstract available.

Deprivation of Liberty update (2015)
Other
Stavert, J. (2015). Deprivation of Liberty update. [Mental Welfare Commission for Scotland]. Edinburgh

The exercise of legal capacity, supported decision- making and Scotland’s mental health and incapacity legislation: working with CRPD challenges. (2015)
Journal Article
Stavert, J. (2015). The exercise of legal capacity, supported decision- making and Scotland’s mental health and incapacity legislation: working with CRPD challenges. Laws, 4(2), 296-313. https://doi.org/10.3390/laws4020296

Article 12 of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, particularly as interpreted in the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities General Comment No. 1, presents a significant challenge to all jurisdictions that equa... Read More about The exercise of legal capacity, supported decision- making and Scotland’s mental health and incapacity legislation: working with CRPD challenges..

‘Taking care of the small: Article 6 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child and childhood accidental injury claims in Scotland’ (2015)
Journal Article
Macfarlane, L.-A. (2015). ‘Taking care of the small: Article 6 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child and childhood accidental injury claims in Scotland’. Stellenbosch Law Review, 26(2), 424-442

This article addresses the right to life, survival and development, guaranteed to every child by the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, article 6, within the context of childhood accidental injury in Scotland. It is argued that Sc... Read More about ‘Taking care of the small: Article 6 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child and childhood accidental injury claims in Scotland’.

The Uniform Customs and Practice for Documentary Credit (the UCP): Are they merely a set of Contractual Terms? (2015)
Journal Article
Chhina, R. K. (2015). The Uniform Customs and Practice for Documentary Credit (the UCP): Are they merely a set of Contractual Terms?. Banking and Finance Law Review, 30(2), 245-265

The paper examines the true legal nature of the Uniform Customs and Practice for Documentary Credit (the UCP) by applying the test: whether the UCP Rules will be applied or at least referred to by courts even when not expressly referred to by the par... Read More about The Uniform Customs and Practice for Documentary Credit (the UCP): Are they merely a set of Contractual Terms?.

Children and their capacity in Scots Law: medical decision-making (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Macfarlane, L. (2015, March). Children and their capacity in Scots Law: medical decision-making. Paper presented at Centre for Mental Health and Incapacity Law, Rights and Policy Conference

No abstract available.