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I welcome the return of the Scottish games awards and, especially, the education symposium that took place in the V&A in Dundee today. Bringing together sectors, businesses and educators is key to unlocking the potential in the industry, so we must ensure that everyone who wants to be part of it can be.
The SIBF concludes: “We finally urge the Health Committee to look at all the specific issues and inclusions outlined above to aid the Scottish Parliament in passing the Legislative Consent Motion (LCM) for the relevant sections of the V&P Bill while opposing those which are not in the best interests of Scottish citizens or devolution.”
In the first Scottish prosecution of the main offence under the 2002 act, in Fraser v Adams, the sheriff accepted that, as part of the meaning of “to hunt”, it was not necessary for an animal to have been located or killed for hunting to have taken place.
On the points about the phrase “for the avoidance of doubt”, members will be aware of the Pepper v Hart approach, which means that when a member lodges an amendment, they have the opportunity to provide clarity about why they are doing so.
There is something powerful and poignant about the rows of headstones in those immaculate war cemeteries. In 1922, King George V visited Tyne Cot cemetery and looked out over the rows of thousands of wooden crosses that had been planted in memory of the fallen.
The doctrine of volenti—the square go defence—was excluded by the celebrated case of Smart v HMA 1975, meaning that, in Scotland, claiming that a victim consented to an act that resulted in their injury or death is not a defence to charges of assault to injury, culpable homicide or murder.