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I would need to check the meeting date, but it is in the diary. What guidance on the bill will be available for stakeholders and members of the public?
On quite a narrow but very important point, in essence you could not plan the schedule of work sufficiently early because you did not know the dates. Although you knew the drop-dead date for completion, you could not start on the activities until you had things from the UK Government.
I hardly expect the country's teachers, police officers or unemployed to sympathise with the financial concerns of the legal profession, but it is not the bank balances of individual lawyers that concern me and my party.
The Government is already on the case, because the matter was flagged up to me by Stephen Pearson, the head of legal services at the Royal Bank of Scotland, which, after all, is our single largest institution here in Scotland.
If we do not reform our defamation law in line with the law in England and Wales, there is a danger that our case law will not be up to date—we will have old Reynolds defences, while English law is developing more robustly.