Scots Law Times

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The Scots Law Times is the law reports service in Scotland, publishing over 1400 pages of reports each year. Although Scots law has its basis in civil law, it also features elements of common law. It follows that case law is an important feature of the pluralistic Scottish legal system. Unlike in English law, the use of such precedents is subject to the courts seeking to discover the principle which justifies a law rather than to search for an example as a precedent.

Published monthly, the Scots Law Times covers every Scottish court, civil and criminal, from the Sheriff Courts to the House of Lords.

Since 2000 the Scots Law Times reports have been prepared by a specialist legal team working online, with court opinions downloaded from the Scottish Courts website. Reports of leading cases can therefore be published very shortly after a decision is issued.

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The Scots Law Times also has a news section which contains topical articles, reviews of all the latest publications, case commentaries and new rules of court and practice notes as they are made.

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• List of leading Scottish legal cases