Achieving cultural change through organizational justice: the case of Stop and Search in Scotland (2019)
Journal Article
Aston, E., Murray, K., & O'Neill, M. (2021). Achieving cultural change through organizational justice: the case of Stop and Search in Scotland. Criminology and Criminal Justice, 21(1), 40-56. https://doi.org/10.1177/1748895819839751

In recent years, the scale, impact and legality of stop and search in Scotland has been subject to intense critical scrutiny, leading to major legal and policy reform in 2016. Based on these events, including an early unsuccessful attempt by Police S... Read More about Achieving cultural change through organizational justice: the case of Stop and Search in Scotland.

Pushing the theoretical boundaries of restorative justice: Non-sovereign justice in radical political and social theories (2018)
Book Chapter
Maglione, G. (2018). Pushing the theoretical boundaries of restorative justice: Non-sovereign justice in radical political and social theories. In T. Gavrielides (Ed.), Routledge International Handbook of Restorative Justice. Routledge

This chapter is an exercise in political and ethical imagination. It starts from the premise that the recent centralised institutionalisation of restorative justice has outstripped this field of its radical political-ethical potential. The process... Read More about Pushing the theoretical boundaries of restorative justice: Non-sovereign justice in radical political and social theories.

An Investigation into Service Quality in the Supreme Court Civil Registry in Jamaica (2018)
Thesis
McKoy, G. A. An Investigation into Service Quality in the Supreme Court Civil Registry in Jamaica. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/1253090

Notwithstanding the strategic importance of service quality to public sector reforms, the Government of Jamaica has given it no consideration in its justice reform project. Neither had anyone previously applied the service quality methodology to serv... Read More about An Investigation into Service Quality in the Supreme Court Civil Registry in Jamaica.

Immature offenders. A critical history of the representations of the offender in restorative justice (2017)
Journal Article
Maglione, G. (2017). Immature offenders. A critical history of the representations of the offender in restorative justice. Contemporary Justice Review, 21(1), 44-59. https://doi.org/10.1080/10282580.2017.1413360

This paper reconstructs and discuss how the 'offender' is represented within policy documents, legal statutes and scholarly literature on restorative justice, published and circulated in England and Wales over the last thirty years. The research firs... Read More about Immature offenders. A critical history of the representations of the offender in restorative justice.

Law, “Tradition” and Legitimacy: Contesting Driglam Namzha (2017)
Book Chapter
Whitecross, R. W. (2017). Law, “Tradition” and Legitimacy: Contesting Driglam Namzha. In J. D. Schmidt (Ed.), Development Challenges in Bhutan: Perspectives on Inequality and Gross National Happiness (115-134). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47925-5_7

During the 1990s, the High Court of Justice played a significant role in the promotion of Bhutanese culture, intertwining the development of the Bhutanese legal system with Bhutanese cultural traditions. Notably, the Research Unit of the High Court o... Read More about Law, “Tradition” and Legitimacy: Contesting Driglam Namzha.

A comparative exploration of the defence of duress (2017)
Journal Article
Moran, C. F. (2017). A comparative exploration of the defence of duress. Global Journal of Comparative Law, 6(1), 51-76

This work examines the defence of duress, as codified in the Rome Statute, from the perspective of four domestic jurisdictions in order to determine whether it can be applied at the domestic level for crimes against the person. The laws of England an... Read More about A comparative exploration of the defence of duress.

Legalities of treating wildlife in UK veterinary practice (2016)
Journal Article
Fraser, M., & Girling, S. (2016). Legalities of treating wildlife in UK veterinary practice. Veterinary Nurse, 7(3), 140-147. https://doi.org/10.12968/vetn.2016.7.3.140

Many different species of wildlife will be presented to veterinary practices. In addition to providing care for these patients, veterinary nurses need to be aware of the legal aspects that apply. Legislation relating to wildlife species is particular... Read More about Legalities of treating wildlife in UK veterinary practice.

In the shadow of the Commonwealth: legal education and democratisation in Bhutan. (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Whitecross, R. W. (2015, April). In the shadow of the Commonwealth: legal education and democratisation in Bhutan. Paper presented at Commonwealth Law Legal Education 2015 Conference

Bhutan, located to the north east of India is not part of the Commonwealth. However, during the early 20th century the British colonial administration developed close ties with Bhutan. During the first part of the twentieth century the newly establis... Read More about In the shadow of the Commonwealth: legal education and democratisation in Bhutan..

Celebrities are grabbing more control over how they are portrayed in the media. (2015)
Newspaper / Magazine
Niu, Z. (2015). Celebrities are grabbing more control over how they are portrayed in the media

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.

The increasing challenge for digital forensics (2015)
Journal Article
Buchanan, W. J. (2015). The increasing challenge for digital forensics. The Texas Investigator, 10-12

Over the past decade or so we have seen a massive increase in the usage of digital devices for evidence gathering in law enforcement, and the methods that we have used are typically based on "dead" forensics, where investigators examined a powered-of... Read More about The increasing challenge for digital forensics.

An assessment of the patentability of business methods in the US and European jurisdictions and an evaluation of the implications (2013)
Thesis
Sun, L. An assessment of the patentability of business methods in the US and European jurisdictions and an evaluation of the implications. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/6075

Advances in information technology have enabled the design and development of innovations in business methods. This is particularly felt with IT enabled innovations such as Sun Microsystems' stateless shopping Cart for the web which is a Web shopping... Read More about An assessment of the patentability of business methods in the US and European jurisdictions and an evaluation of the implications.

Computational data protection law: trusting each other offline and online (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Buchanan, W. J., Fan, L., Lawson, A., Schafer, B., Scott, R., Thuemmler, C., & Uthmani, O. (2012, December). Computational data protection law: trusting each other offline and online

The paper reports of a collaborative project between computer scientists, lawyers, police officers, medical professionals and social workers to develop a communication in infrastructure that allows information sharing while observing Data Protection... Read More about Computational data protection law: trusting each other offline and online.

Child Welfare Hearing Reports: A Scoping Study on the Commissioning, Preparation and Use of Bar Reports (2011)
Report
Whitecross, R. W. (2011). Child Welfare Hearing Reports: A Scoping Study on the Commissioning, Preparation and Use of Bar Reports

A study of the use of Child Welfare Reports in Child Welfare Hearings in Scottish Sherifff Courts.

Governance and evidence based policy under a National Security framework. (2008)
Book Chapter
Wigan, M. (2008). Governance and evidence based policy under a National Security framework. In K. Michael, & M. Michael (Eds.), Australia and the new technologies: Evidence based policy on public administration. [Proceedings of the] Third RSNA Workshop on the Social Implications of National Security: Evidence based policy on public administration 23-24 July 2008 Canberra (49-58). Australian Homeland Security Research Centre

This paper addresses the conflicts of the inherent strains between evidence based policy and contestable evidence based policy under the strictures of a National Security
framework. The shifts in attitudes as to what is acceptable in the applicatio... Read More about Governance and evidence based policy under a National Security framework..

Mental health, community care and human rights in Europe: still an incomplete picture? (2007)
Journal Article
Stavert, J. (2007). Mental health, community care and human rights in Europe: still an incomplete picture?. Journal of mental health law, 16, 182

The door is wedged open: China's regulation on foreign access to audiovisual markets. (2007)
Journal Article
Niu, Z. (2007). The door is wedged open: China's regulation on foreign access to audiovisual markets. Entertainment law review, 18, 265-271

Remedies policy in media mergers: a new form of regulation in a deregulatory era? (2007)
Journal Article
Niu, Z. (2007). Remedies policy in media mergers: a new form of regulation in a deregulatory era?. Communications law : journal of computer, media, and telecommunications law, 12, 92-98

Over-Observed? What is the quality of CCTV in this new digital legal world? (2006)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Bromby, M., & Ness, H. (2006, April). Over-Observed? What is the quality of CCTV in this new digital legal world?. Presented at 20th BILETA Conference:

Much research and debate has focussed on the value of CCTV and the associated criminological
aspects such as whether crime is reduced, or simply displaced, by its use. The aim of this paper is
not to enter into this debate, but to examine the evide... Read More about Over-Observed? What is the quality of CCTV in this new digital legal world?.

Contemporary composite techniques: the impact of a forensically-relevant target delay. (2005)
Journal Article
Baldwin, H., Hancock, P., Frowd, C. D., Carson, D., Ness, H., McQuiston-Surrett, D., & Richardson, J. (2005). Contemporary composite techniques: the impact of a forensically-relevant target delay. Legal and Criminological Psychology, 10(1), 63-81. https://doi.org/10.1348/135532504X15358

Purpose. Previous laoratory-based research suggests that facial composites, or pictures of suspected criminals, from UK computerized systems are named correctly about 20% of the time. The current work compares composites from several such systems fol... Read More about Contemporary composite techniques: the impact of a forensically-relevant target delay..