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Given the timing constraints on the Official Statistics themselves (as set out above), the only way in which a guaranteed "pre June" date for the statutory report could be secured would be to move the entire reporting timetable back a full year from current arrangements.
Amendment 21, in the name of the minister, is grouped with amendments 25, 27, 27A, 27B, 28, 28A, 29, 86, 135, 88, 136 and 89. I draw members’ attention to the pre-emption information that is given on the groupings.
We should therefore not seek, through amendments 273 and 274, to pre-empt that work, but should instead allow that process to take its course, so the amendments should not be agreed to.
It is right that we revisit trials in which witnesses were intimidated or jury members were unduly influenced, so that justice is done.Section 3 is on admissions made or becoming known after acquittal and the committee had to consider whether the provision should apply to pre-acquittal and post-acquittal admissions.
We have to link the taxation powers to the grant, but that will be for later consideration.Generally, I appreciate the work that has been done by the Calman commission, which has now found its form in the Scotland Bill. I have been pre-empted to some extent. The broad structure of the bill is coherent and I have no quarrel with it in principle.
The only point being, however, that although Thompsons is clearly the pre-eminent firm in Scotland in dealing with such matters, it invariably acts for the pursuer, not for the defender.
However, Sheriff Principal Bowen did not recommend that as a necessary step change because he did not believe that“the essentially simple issues in a large number of Sheriff Court cases justify elaborate and lengthy pre-trial hearings.”The costs associated with the legal system have been much in the spotlight, and I know that the intention of the review is ...