Modern medical practice has seen many advances in imaging over the past ten years. Magnetic Resonance Imaging, CT scanning and Ultrasound investigations have all been added to the repertoire of normal practice. However, the humble chest X-ray remains a crucial first line investigation - particularly for acute medical admissions. Many chest X-rays are requested for a specific purpose e.g. confirmation of pneumonia, but the image may reveal features of previously unsuspected disease of another body system. Digital storage of X-ray images means that a chest X-ray may be viewed at any computer...

This vitally important new title provides criminal practitioners and others involved in Scots criminal law with an in-depth narrative guide to the law of criminal defences in Scotland. The comprehensive coverage considers defences in the widest sense, examining not only those which form part of substantive criminal law but also procedural matters such as pleas in bar of trial, abuse of process, delay, entrapment and prejudicial publicity. Drawing on theoretical and comparative material where appropriate, Criminal Defences provides a more detailed treatment of this area than any other...

The only casebook on this subject with a uniquely Scottish focus, bringing together a collection of extracts from cases, legislation, authoritative texts and articles. The extracts are interwoven with detailed commentary, which, where possible, draws links and comparisons across the topics covered. Trusts: Cases & Materials covers all the principal features of the law of trusts, including classification of trusts, their creation and administration, variation of trust purposes, liabilities of trustees, termination of trusts and private international law. Trusts: Cases & Materials takes...

Time is both the ally of high-level nuclear waste (HLNW) managers and the enemy. It is the ally because the radioactivity in elements and isotopes decreases with age, making the waste progressively less dangerous to human health and safety and the environment. This rate of radioactive decline varies, in some cases diminishing by half (the half life) in seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, or years. In other cases the decay process takes centuries or hundreds of thousands of years before the wastes are safe for human contact. The problem as now conceptualized for HLNW managers is...