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To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-20694 by Cathy Jamieson on 28 November 2005, whether the Assess, Compare, Evaluation and Verify (ACE-V) process is fallible and what evidence it has to justify its reply.
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Date answered:
23 April 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-21639 by Mr Jim Wallace on 1 February 2002, whether the statements by the sheriffs in the cases of Gray v MacLeod and Gill v Mitchell convey to it corroboration of the expression of confusion by the Scottish Law Commission which was extant in the p...
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Date answered:
20 March 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive how long on average the registration of childcare workers takes under Part V of the Police Act 1997. Childcare services will be registered by the Scottish Commission for the Regulation of Care under the Regulation of Care (Scotland) Act 2001.
Leading figures from key voluntary organisations, who had expressed keen interest in Part V issues, were invited to participate in the Review Group and to represent the views of their members.
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Date answered:
16 February 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive whether, in light of the recent judgement in the case of The Scottish Ministers v The Scottish Information Commissioner (William Alexander’s Application) and The Scottish Ministers v The Scottish Information Commissioner (David Elstone and Martin Williams’s Applications), regarding the ...
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Date answered:
13 March 2001
In the meantime, we have decided that Part V criminal record checks on volunteers working with vulnerable adults in the voluntary sector may be carried out without cost to the volunteer or to the voluntary organisation concerned.
Consideration has been given to a range of case law, including Handyside v UK. The matter is currently being examined by the European Court of Justice.
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Date answered:
4 October 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive with regard to comments made by Sheriff Principal Nicholson in the case Thomson v Thomson at Edinburgh Sheriff Court on 10 June 2002, whether it plans to amend the Ordinary Cause Rules to facilitate the attachment of a power of arrest to common law interdicts that pre-date the coming into force of the Protection From Abuse (Sc...
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Date answered:
25 August 2000
The Church of Scotland's concern about the cost of criminal record checks for their volunteers is being considered by the Part V Voluntary Issues Review Group which is chaired by Jackie Baillie, Deputy Minister for Communities.
I am not satisfied that Clyde Shopping Hall v Canning or Keane v Jackson—which is the other case cited in the legal briefing—can be characterised as precedents.