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Sometimes the conference is just the end of the process and is not needed, because the exploration of the issue with different family members has provided a solution.Six weeks is our average turnaround. That is tiny compared with the time decision-making processes in care take.
I am sure that Irene Oldfather shares my concern that it does not help Ayrshire's cause in trying to attract private sector investment when the chairman of Scottish Enterprise compares its economy to that of an eastern European country.
He talked about the need for a proportionate system that is comparable to other systems for those involved in governance arrangements, but he also mentioned the critical common sense that must be injected as we make our decisions.
The murder rate involving knives is three and a half times higher in Strathclyde that it is anywhere else in the United Kingdom. There is nothing comparable anywhere else. The figures are dreadful.We decided that there must be a two-tier approach.
I am basing it on my opinion, which I have formed having spoken to people in Ireland about the switch, what happened as a result of it and the comparative volumes. Those who are opposed to the bill will, of course, take a different view.
Research must be done into the number of Gypsy Traveller offenders, if they are known, and what type of sentences they are getting. A comparative study needs to be done of them and members of the settled community who commit the same crimes.Why should the judicial system be exempt from racial diversity training?
Do you accept that there would be a reduction in the number of staff following amalgamation, compared with the number we have currently with decentralisation?
That is modernisation at the expense of the accused's rights.In evidence, the Faculty of Advocates compared the situation here to that in England, where people"can languish in jail for a year before someone gets round to trying them."