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One organisation however which did comment was Channel 4, which said—
We believe defamation cases are best left with a judge alone. To date, jury trials have resulted inconsistent decisions on damages, which are extremely difficult to quantify, and clashes with a responsible journalism defence.iChannel 4, written submission
Committee reports
Date published:
3 September 2020
Annex: Extract from minutes
13th Meeting 2020 (Session 5), Thursday 27 August 2020
Subordinate legislation: The Committee took evidence on the Scottish Parliament (Disqualification) Order 2020 [draft] and on the Representation of the People (Electoral Registers Publication Date) (Coronavirus) (Scotland) Regulations 2020 [draft] from—
Graeme Dey, Minister ...
Call for views
Building on this evidence, the Committee launched a call for views on 14 June 2019. The closing date for submissions was Friday 23 August 2019 .
Membership changes
The membership of the Committee changed during the course of the Committee's consideration of the Bill at Stage 1 (starting from the date of the referral by the Parliamentary Bureau to the Committee, 29 May 2018).
The Regulations were re-laid on 19 September; the date they were to have come into force having been moved from 29 October 2018 to 1 April 2019, but with no other changes.
Justice Committee scrutiny
The Committee noted the time that this Committee has had for this instrument has been surprisingly short. This SI has a laying date of 10 December. The reason for not allowing 28 days for Scottish Parliamentary scrutiny is that “drafting issues emerged late”.
Committee reports
Date published:
26 November 2018
Section 13 provides that Scottish Ministers may by regulations commence the provisions of the Bill on such dates as they determine.
Section 14 gives the Bill its short title as the Health and Care (Staffing) (Scotland) Bill.
Explanatory material
The DPLR Committee recommended in its interim report on the LCM that instruments should be accompanied by explanatory material. In a letter dated 23 January 2018 to the Presiding Officer, the DPLR Committee stated that the House of Commons amendment on explanatory memoranda “meets some of the requirements set out in the Committee’s ...
To be admissible, an objection must:
be in writing;
state the objector's name and address (and any other contact details);
set out the grounds for objection (and whether these relate to the whole bill or specific provisions);
explain how the objector's interests would be adversely affected by the bill; and
be signed and dated by the objector.
The Scottish P...