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Mike Tyson has not been treated as a normal member of the public. The point of a judicial review is to test whether the rules have been correctly applied.Lewis Macdonald's point about one Parliament undermining another by taking court action does not stand up to scrutiny.
At the moment we are satisfied that a 4.4 per cent increase in electricity bills over nine years is not an undue imposition. However, we are cognisant of the point that you make. We have talked about the impact that the obligation may have on communities.
Before this Parliament came into being, there was a lot of talk about pre-legislative scrutiny. If the 21-day rule has been breached and committees have been denied an opportunity to scrutinise legislation, it makes a mockery of pre-legislative scrutiny.There are two serious points of principle.
Had the order been presented to the committee earlier, the committee would have been able to consider it before the recess. We should make those points to the Executive. As I was involved with adoptions when I was in private practice, I know that they are a minefield at the best of times.
There is no doubt that air pollution has dire chronic health consequences—not only do people suffer ill health, but they die sooner because of the terrible pollution in Glasgow city centre.I will cite a couple of examples that we have all seen.
Scottish ParliamentJustice 1 CommitteeTuesday 26 March 2002(Afternoon) Scottish ParliamentJustice 1 CommitteeTuesday 26 March 2002(Afternoon) The Convener opened the meeting at 13:49 I welcome everybody to the 10th meeting of the Justice 1 Committee in 2002.