A. INTRODUCTORY (1) Overview (2) The “organ retention scandal”, the law reform background (3) Post-mortem examinations, the factual background B. RIGHTS OF PERSONALITY AND THE ACTION FOR SOLATIUM FOR AFFRONT (ACTIO INIURIARUM) (1) The status, scope and role of the actio iniuriarum (2) Personality rights and human rights, impairment of dignity and invasion of privacy (a) The relation of the legal concepts of dignity and privacy (b( Protection of dignity by private law, personality right or human rightsdelict (3) Scottish Law Commission’s Report on Damages for Psychiatric Injury: abolition of common law on solatium for wounded feelings arising from affront