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For civil matters, we are looking at rolling out the part V lawyers scheme—under part V of the Legal Aid (Scotland) Act 1986—which has been used before.
Equity markets seem to be pricing in a very quick V-shaped recovery. Do you think that that is right or do you think that there is a much more prolonged recovery to come?
I draw the committee’s attention to a specific case from 2007—HMA v Mola—which concerned the use of the power to anonymise the alleged victim of someone who was accused of deliberately infecting the victim with HIV.
The European Court of Human Rights revisited and discussed the approach in the recent case of Wetjen v Germany. It found that the German Government had not violated the applicants’ right to respect for their private and family life under article 8 of the European convention on human rights.
The fact that only 12 per cent—just over a tenth—of charges brought under the 2012 act related to Rangers v Celtic matches does not reflect the narrative that sectarianism in Scotland is primarily the responsibility of those clubs.
The same applies in respect of services. Under article V, I think, of the general agreement on trade in services, agreements on services need to have “substantial sectoral coverage” in order to be compatible with GATS.
As members know, local government collects the water charge, and there is a view that cross-subsidisation is going on. I throw that point on the table.I was struck by Professor Alexander's comments about the Accounts Commission acting as some sort of driver.
As are most of the things that are said from this side of the table.I mentioned the internal. Might I say something about the external, which the Lord Justice General said something about?
That was not achieved, perhaps because students and staff were not around the table.I accept what Muir Russell said about needing a quick response, but the task force's remit was to look at the next 20 years.
Stephen has been the first to raise that issue, which comes from the point of view of buyers rather than providers—who are, after all, heavily represented around the table.I also support Stephen Vickers's views on rent.