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Before we start thinking about the next holiday, we will have to get down to work. We have received apologies from Margaret Smith.It is recommended that we discuss agenda items 3 and 4 in private.
You suggest that there is no convention, but that non-Scottish judges are reluctant to get involved. What criteria are used to determine whether non-Scottish judges should be involved in Scottish cases in the first place?
The SAC spends about £26 million or £27 million of public money—I am not trying to sound like Brian—and usually spends it rather well, but there are big questions about the size of its bureaucracy.