Guardian Unlimited Politics | Special Reports | Long arm of the law grasps challenge with caution: "Aamer Anwar, a human rights lawyer representing the G8 protesters, feared legal niceties would be thrown out of the window if a riot erupted, and that it could prove difficult and costly to call English and Welsh officers to account.
Many Scots are uneasy about the long arm of the law reaching several hundred miles further north.
'It's about the style of policing as well as the legal differences,' said Frances Curran, a Scottish Socialist party MSP and organiser of a protest rally against the G8.
'Met officers and the like running about Perthshire will create huge tensions. We're told they'll receive full training in Scots law but we think any protester arrested by an English or Welsh officer will have grounds to question that arrest.'"
