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Has the Law Society engaged before in the process of proposing levels at which it thinks fees should be set? Is this a new thing? It is new for us, but I doubt whether it is new for the Law Society, although perhaps it is.
Scottish ParliamentSubordinate Legislation CommitteeTuesday 1 October 2002(Morning) The Convener opened the meeting at 11:26 Welcome to the 27th meeting in 2002 of the Subordinate Legislation Committee.
The Subordinate Legislation Committee considered the regulations at its meeting on 26 February and determined that the attention of Parliament need not be drawn to them.
As Liam McArthur said, there were issues 20 years ago in Oregon, when assisted dying was new or emerging, but there is now a very refined protocol that we know works at 100 per cent effectiveness.12Scottish Parliament. (2025, February 4).
In short, the Scottish Government could have added within legislative competence the protected characteristic of gender reassignment, which would have included trans men and trans women. But it created a new protected characteristic of trans women, which it did not have the power to do.
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21 September 2023
We agree that additional clarity would be beneficial. We propose the insertion of a new definition “surviving partner” at para 1(1) of the Schedule as follows: ““surviving partner” has the meaning given in regulation 76 of the 2015 Regulations.”
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