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It is clear that drug dealers do not recognise any national boundaries when they want to visit their evil deeds on communities north and south of the border, in Europe and elsewhere.
Unfortunately, he has spoiled it by moving off into rather cheap political points, based, apparently, on gossip that he has presumably picked up from afar, as these days he seldom visits Westminster to defend Scotland's interests.
By sharing their expertise, we can get a full understanding of where there might have been difficulties—and where there might still be difficulties—in how they operate. However, when we visited Glasgow for the presentation a few weeks back, the one part of the process of which we did not gain a full understanding was the involvement of the scene-of-crime of...
It will not stand in the way of couples who may have constituted a marriage by cohabitation with habit and repute before the new section that abolishes it comes into force.
As it happens, the ombudsman also believes that there is an issue.It may well be that, by the time the Law Society meets at the end of this week, the issue will have been resolved, which would be good news. The committee could then decide whether there is still work to be done or whether it wants to leave the issue to the Executive consultation.
The Executive has given us a full and courteous reply, and has explained that the regulations that are revoked under regulation 4 made provision for the supervision of guardians as appointed under the Mental Health (Scotland) Act 1984 and for the duties of those guardians, and that that provision is to continue under the new act, the Adults with Incapacity ...
There have been calls in the past for a one-stop shop. The bill creates a new inspection and we must recognise that it is in the interests of the sector and the Parliament that we streamline the process.
One of the things that the committee discovered on its visit to Lewis was that the Gigha company that had been established for the purposes of the buy-out of the island of Gigha and associated undertakings had successfully registered as a charity.