See www.lobbying.scot St Andrew’s House, Regent Road, Edinburgh EH1 3DG www.gov.scot • amending the legislative framework for appointing and removing Judges of the Sexual Offences Court to enhance their security of tenure and safeguard the independence of judicial decision-making in the new court • enabling bespoke arrangements to be made for the payment of remuneration and expenses to Judges of the SOC • applying the new evidence exception as set out in the Double Jeopardy (Scotland) Act 2011 to cases that are prosecuted in the SOC - this will make it possible to re-indict an accused in relation to the same crime that they had previously been acquitted of where new evidence comes to light which was not available at their original trial • introducing a mechanism to address concerns over the level of legal representation that accused in the SOC will be entitled to.