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I cannot give you details of how I think X, Y and Z will be affected, but, as Paul Sheerin has been saying, the general picture is clear—many SMEs will be impacted negatively by what they are having to do.
Other policing stakeholders such as the Scottish Police Federation might take a different view and say that more training will be required and that the Government needs to consider X, Y and Z. From my recent conversation with representatives of the SPF on the bill—I hope that I am not putting words in their mouths; they can speak for themselves—I think that...
So far as Ms Constance’s second question is concerned, the ministerial code makes clear the expectation that ministers and policy makers— To give an example at an elementary level, if I am having my will drawn up, in a conversation with my lawyer I might say, “I want X, Y and Z.” He might reply, “No. That is completely unnecessary—you don’t want to do that,...
Fifty years of evidence has proven exactly what it will do, which, generally, is never good for Scottish sectors. 16:26 I apologise to members and, in particular, Beatrice Wishart for not being in the chamber for all the opening speeches.
Defamation and Malicious Publication (Scotland) Bill [AS AMENDED AT STAGE 2] CONTENTS Section RT 1 P A D EFAMATION Actionability and restrictions on bringing proceedings 1 Actionability of defamatory statements 2 Prohibition on public authorities bringing proceedings 3 Restriction on proceedings against secondary publishers 4 Power to specify persons to be treated as publishers Defences 5 Defence of truth 6 Defence of publication on a matter of public interest 7 Defence of honest opinion 8 Abolition of common law defences and transitional provision Absolute privilege 9 Contemporaneous reports of court proceedings Qualified privilege 10 Peer-reviewed statement in scientific or academic journal etc. 11 Other statements protected by qualified privilege 12 Privilege: transitional provision Offers to make amends to make amends 13 Offer 14 Acceptance and enforcement of offer to make amends 15 Offer to make amends: multiple persons responsible for statement 16 Rejection of unqualified offer to make amends 17 Rejection of qualified offer to make amends 18 Offers to make amends: transitional provision Jurisdiction 19 Actions against a person not domiciled in the UK SP Bill 61A Session 5 (2021) ii Defamation and Malicious Publication (Scotland) Bill Removal of presumption that proceedings are to be tried by jury 20 Removal of presumption that proceedings are to be tried by jury P ART 2 M ALICIOUS PUBLICATION Actionable types of malicious publication 21 Statements causing harm to business interests 22 Statements causing doubt as to title to property 23 Statements criticising assets General provision 24 Limit on requirement to show financial loss 25 Statements conveying two or more meanings 26...
Section 100(2) – Commencement Power conferred on: the Scottish Ministers Power exercisable by: regulations made by Scottish statutory instrument Parliamentary procedure: laid, no procedure 26 This document relates to the Redress for Survivors (Historical Child Abuse in Care) (Scotland) Bill (SP Bill 79) as introduced in the Scottish Parliament on 13 August ...
General provision 14 Defamation and Malicious Publication (Scotland) Bill Part 3 — General 24 Limit on requirement to show financial loss pursuer in proceedings under this Part does not need to show financial loss if the Astatement complained of is more likely than not to cause such loss. 25 Statements conveying two or more meanings 5 (1) This section applies where proceedings are brought under this Part in respect of a statement that is capable of conveying two or more distinct meanings. (2) It is not necessary for the purposes of deciding whether harm has occurred for the court to determine— (a) which of the meanings is conveyed by the statement in the circumstances, or 10 (b) that one meaning should be preferred to the exclusion of the other or others. (3) But nothing in this section prevents the court from excluding or disregarding possible meanings where it considers it appropriate to do so. 26...
Reform of the setting of the discount rate 26. Part 1 of the Bill will ensure that the law on how the discount rate is set is clear, certain, fair, transparent and credible and the rate will be reviewed regularly at least every three years.