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Wicked laws devastate nations.However, good laws can protect lives and renew nations. Good laws ensure justice among competing claims, protection for the weak and accountability of the powerful.
The Executive wants to encourage community initiatives and community safety partnerships, which not only involve the police and the other criminal justice agencies but must involve people living in the communities. We give the issue a high priority.
Does the First Minister agree that women who are raped go through enough trauma without having to endanger their lives further by trying to fight off their attacker?
As new community schools have made a contribution to the lives of children and their families, what reassurance will the minister give projects that are reaching the end of their three-year funding period?
We make a general plea to people in Scotland to continue to consider donations, which are vital to the health service and to the lives of the many patients who desperately need those organs.
Exactly. That is understood. We will live with that and incorporate any further changes in any subsequent report that we make to Parliament on changing standing orders.
In that debate, the minister indicated that the regulations were intended to prevent discrimination against people living in rural Scotland who are unable to participate in and benefit from individual learning accounts because of additional travelling, subsistence or child care costs.A pilot scheme applies in several areas including Mallaig and the small is...
Not only does the university do what Elaine Thomson has outlined, but it has a virtual campus, which it thought initially would be of interest only to students living outside the city of Aberdeen—in other parts of Scotland or all around the world.
As the Subordinate Legislation Committee noted in its report, the retention of the power is important as "the Convention is a living instrument that must be interpreted according to the differing values of society.