Provides essential, practical guidance to the Scottish legal profession. The work explores the impact of human rights legislation in Scotland and provides a comprehensive review of ECHR jurisprudence, relevant domestic legislation and case law. It also includes an overview of Strasbourg enforcement machinery.

The fifth edition of this highly regarded work has been fully updated to reflect:

- Significant amounts of new UK Supreme Court (UKSCt) judgments - in recent years at least half of recent judgments have a human rights aspect.
- New case law from the European Court of Human Rights
- Increased emerging case law from the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) on human rights