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Our view is that there is a potential disadvantage to litigants who under the new orders, if they are passed, would have access to the simpler, more straightforward, procedures—including timetable procedures—of summary court procedure.
Until we have an overview of how active the groups are, it is hard to judge whether the new applications are needed or whether they can be accommodated in the existing groups.
After section 3 I call amendment 19, which is grouped with amendment 20. Amendment 19 would insert a new section into the bill, the purpose of which is to establish an education convention to bring together experts in education and representatives of various education interest groups to provide a source of advice to ministers on the determination of the na...
If you intend to use Business for Scotland as a reference, you should involve organisations such as New Europe, Business for Sterling and, indeed, Britain in Europe, to balance the equation.
If you intend to use Business for Scotland as a reference, you should involve organisations such as New Europe, Business for Sterling and, indeed, Britain in Europe, to balance the equation.
Obviously, the EU agreed that a transition period was necessary before moving to a system of area-based payments. Is the new system on target? The proposals for the area-based system have been lodged with the European Commission as part of the Executive's rural development plan.
In practice, sheriffs in large courts in cities tend to specialise, for example, in mental health cases. It is very likely that, under the new legislation, that will continue to be the case.
We could also write to the petitioner, informing them that new rights for tenants—the single social tenancy—will form part of the housing bill, which the committee will consider in the autumn, and that we will take on board the views expressed in the petition.