Human Rights: A Modern Agenda examines the implications of the interface between the Scotland Act 1998 and the Human Rights Act 1998. Its purpose is to increase awareness and stimulate public debate about a new role for human rights in a changed and still changing Scotland. The book raises critical questions and provides facts as well as opinions to help inform the public debate on the implications of the most profound constitutional change in Scotland for the past three centuries.Previously a T & T Clarke publication