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Part one: retained EU law
This section of the briefing explains what retained EU law is, why and how it was created. It also considers how best to understand retained EU law as a category of domestic law, and looks at how it can be changed at present.
Committee reports
Date published:
7 September 2020
We ask the Scottish Government to review the children's rights in relation to ownership of data to ensure a child's best interests are at the heart of sharing personal, private and sensitive information with alleged perpetrators.
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The Committee considers that the Scottish Government must be able to demonstrate that the school counsellor programme is achieving best value, using the resources that are available to achieve its intended policy objectives to maximum effect.
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... the extension to 12 months is unlikely to have much effect on sentencing practice: at best it is a reminder to sentencers of the existing injunction that imprisonment should be ‘a last resort’.
Where there is a vacancy on a public board and there is at least one woman, and someone who is not a woman applying, the appointing person must determine who is best qualified for that position. If no particular candidate is best qualified, the appointing person must identify candidates it considers equally qualified...
Who makes that decision? Bearing in mind that, to the best of my knowledge, it has not happened, it would probably not be a rank-based decision—it would probably be made by the senior investigating officer for the inquiry.
In the particular set of circumstances, we thought that best governance would be achieved by our acting in the role of funder, and that is the decision that was taken.
The committee has heard from a range of witnesses that the process of transferring the regeneration role and its responsibilities has been at best incomplete, or has not actually happened.
Would it be sensible, then, simply to tweak what is meant by a servitude or are such matters best dealt with through exemptions? I suspect that exemption is probably the best approach.