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Usually, adultery is a fairly clear-cut issue. However, behaviour is a much looser issue, and the court has much more room to say that the behaviour that has been proved is not such that the persons could not be expected to cohabit.
Given that the committee deals with sport, I declare that I have a shareholding—although it is extremely small—in Heart of Midlothian Football Club, which is of course the best club in Scotland, so one must have shares in it.
Does he agree that something is very wrong with the system when, in one instance, two ambulances that were sitting outside a football ground could not respond to an emergency call a few yards away?
I had not read the draft report when I read the Scotland on Sunday article. It is offensive for the impression to be given that MSPs have formed a view before they have even had a chance to discuss their draft report.
I wish to give a commitment that we wish to remove the financial penalty of surcharge, which is the element that is most offensive to individual elected councillors in Scotland.
All the evidence that emerges on the effectiveness of criminal justice systems is that the closer a penalty is to the offending behaviour, the more effective it is in changing that behaviour.
I did not see the presentation by the Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers during stage 1 consideration of the Antisocial Behaviour etc (Scotland) Bill, but I believe that it made a persuasive case on how important the issue is.