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However, the written submission from the Law Society of Scotland expressed the view that these measures should be discontinued at the point when there was no longer a risk to public health.
Role of Consumer Scotland
When scrutinising the Consumer Scotland Bill, we expressed concerns about how Consumer Scotland would work with other organisations dealing with consumer rights to ensure a co-ordinated, strategic approach which avoided duplication.
This threshold or "specified limit" is set out in the Schedule to the 2006 Act, where it is expressed as "0.5% of a member's salary (rounded down to the nearest £10) at the beginning of the current parliamentary session."
Committee reports
Date published:
11 February 2021
The Committee stresses the importance of Parliamentary approval in the process of appointment of the Commissioners and expresses concern that the Scottish Government overlooked that requirement.
Committee reports
Date published:
17 September 2020
The Committee noted that the power is expressed as allowing Scottish Minsters to “substitute for the amount of the application fee such other amount as they think appropriate but only in order to take account of changes in the value of money.”
In addition, the views on different types of infrastructure are broadly consistent with those expressed in the large scale Bike Life Edinburgh 2015 survey (Sustrans 2015).
Committee reports
Date published:
21 December 2017
The Committee notes and is sympathetic to the concerns expressed by trade unions that the current “pay as you go” model of court fees can act as a barrier to access to justice.
The Bill would set some requirements in relation to the procedure to be developed:
proceedings will take place in the Court of Session;
a person must give their express consent for group proceedings to be taken forward on their behalf (known as an "opt-in" procedure); and
it will be possible for a "representative party" to bring group proceedings, even whe...