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Where it is necessary for a person’s trans status to be taken into account such as in the public boards case, the law is capable of accommodating that.
Another way is to make other agencies accountable for outcomes. The education authority will be accountable to a tribunal for failure to deliver, but other agencies might have the power of delivery.
We have to produce consolidated accounts because consolidated accounts give a full picture of spending within the whole Scottish Executive accounting boundary.
I was surprised that in the two accountancy papers we received there was little content from an accountancy point of view on how risks are valued in the process.
That is correct, except in some areas. Parliament is certainly accountable for the law that it makes and the bodies that it creates under the law are accountable to it.
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the court can take into account a party’s conduct, including any unreasonable refusal to participate in ADR, when determining who should pay the legal costs of a court action.
I understand that Ross Finnie pledged that full account would be taken of the findings of the Ecodredge report and the minister has said that they may be taken into account at a later stage.
The Procedures Committee is still fine tuning the details of the procedures for laying the draft code of practice and for reporting breaches of the code, as he reported to us at our last meeting.