I announced on 29 August that, following consideration by the Scottish Executive of the judgement issued in the High Court in London in the case of A & Others v National Blood Transfusion Service and others, the Central Legal Office (CLO) has been instructed on behalf of NHSScotland to:identify analogous actions in which proceedings have been raised in Scotland in terms of the Consumer Protection Act 1987 in which alleged transmission of the hepatitis C virus by blood product would appear to have occurred on, or after, the date the Act came into force on 1 March 1988.Where claims meet...