If the Arte Povera movement challenged
established art
conventions through its use of found or «low» materials, and if abstract expressionism was in many ways a tradition of American hegemony during the Cold War and the ultimate in «high art seriousness» as practitioners
confronted the sublime and the subconscious in their energetic output, Scott's paintings are a strange hybrid of both.
Lord Bingham, states that «the right of a criminal defendant to be
confronted by named and identified accusers was well recognised and
established in England for some centuries before adoption of the European
Convention» and refers to Lord Rodger's words in support for this contention in R (D) v Camberwell Green Youth Court [2005] UKHL 4, [2005] 1 WLR 393, [2005] 1 All ER 999 that «the introduction of Art 6 (3)(d) will not have added anything of significance to any requirements of English law for witnesses to give their evidence in the presence of the accused.»