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That opportunity has been taken away from him and his young son, who skippers the other boat. He is looking at a loss of between 30 and 40 per cent of his gross for the year.
The case was heard in a sheriff court in the north-east, and the person who was representing himself, following the death of his son, was taken to pieces by the sheriff because he could not present his case as the sheriff expected.
The high wages in the industry have not always had good impacts—I say that as someone whose son had to move out of Aberdeen because he could not afford to buy a house there, so I know very well what the impact has been for many people.
Why should I have to find myself telling people whose son has been murdered that the case could not proceed because corroboration was required, yet if I was speaking about a rape offence, it could be that that case proceeded?
I believe that the Scottish Government could lead the way in the UK on the issue.I will give a bit of background. My son has had type 1 diabetes since the age of 12 and is on insulin.
The logical progression—at which people throw up their hands in horror and have a heart attack—would be to say that if that is the case there is nothing wrong with someone marrying their adult son, if they love each other. To say that marriage is between two people who love each other is emotive and sounds great in the press, but as a basis for law it is an...
If they had just had an extra bedroom, she could conceivably have moved; the DLA and the fact that she is a disabled person would not necessarily have stopped her doing so. However, the couple have a son with autism and the problem was that he could not handle change and therefore could not move.
The difficulty is in ensuring that these things happen across the board.Learning a language is a tremendous thing for children. If my son, who will be moving into secondary school in the summer, does not come out with a language in five or six years’ time, he will be disadvantaged.