Right First Time: A practical guide for public authorities in Scotland to decision-making and the law - third edition

Right First Time is a practical guide for public authorities in Scotland to decision-making and the law.


Footnotes

1. Carltona Ltd –v- Commissioner of Works [1943] 2 All ER 560.

2. Section 3 of the Human Rights Act 1998.

3. Regulation 5, The Equality Act 2010 (Specific Duties)(Scotland) Regulations 2012 as amended.

4. Hotak v Southwark London Borough Council [2015] UKSC 30.

5. R. (Brown) v. Secretary of State for Work and Pensions [2008] EWHC 3158 (Admin), paragraphs 90 - 96; Bracking v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions [2013] EWCA Civ 1345, paragraph 25.

6. Hotak v Southwark London Borough Council [2015] UKSC 30, para 75.

7. As above, para 74.

8. Technical Guidance on the Public Sector Equality Duty: Scotland

9. Fairer Scotland Duty: guidance for public bodies - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

10. Equality outcomes and mainstreaming: report 2021 - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

11. The Equality Act 2010 (Specific Duties)(Scotland) Regulations 2012, as amended.

12. See the Environmental Assessment (Scotland) Act 2005.

13. See the Conservation (Natural Habitats, &c.) Regulations 1994. Where reserved matters (within the meaning of schedule 5 of the Scotland Act 1998) are concerned, certain provisions of the Conservation of Habitats and Species Regulations 2017 (the “2017 Regulations”) apply instead.

14. Local Authority Accounts (Scotland) Regulations SSI 2014/200.

15. Directive 2014/24/EU on public procurement; Directive 2014/25/EU on procurement by entities operating in the water, energy, transport and postal services sector; and Directive 2014/23/EU on the award of concession contracts.

16. The Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015, the Concession Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2016 and the Utilities Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2016.

17. The Procurement (Scotland) Regulations 2016.

18. Associated Provincial Picture Houses Ltd v Wednesbury Corp [1948] 1 K.B. 223.

19. Council of Civil Service Unions v Minister for the Civil Service [1985] A.C. 374 at 410.

20. See, for example, R v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2000] 2 A.C. 115 at 144.

21. R (on the application of SC, CB and 8 children) (Appellants) v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions and others (Respondents) [2021] UKSC 26

22. Keyu and others v Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs and another [2015] UKSC 69 at 131-134.

23. Odubajo v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2020] CSOH 2

24. See Cherry v Advocate General [2019] CSIH 49.

25. Vince v Prime Minister [2019] CSOH 77.

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