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SPICe briefings
Date published:
3 September 2025
Criminal Justice Modernisation and Abusive Domestic Behaviour Reviews (Scotland) Bill: Consideration prior to Stage 3 - Fixed penalties
In addition, it commented that the pre-pandemic scale had not been changed since it was introduced in 2008, and its maximum of £300 would now be the equivalent of almost £430 if inflation is taken into account.
Committee reports
Date published:
9 July 2025
Inquiry Into Financial Considerations When Leaving an Abusive Relationship - Legal practice, funding arrangements and inaccuracy of information
Participants also mentioned coming up against snobbery and pre-conceived bias when dealing with legal firms, as well as being made to feel stupid.Key themes from lived experience engagement with members of Scottish Women's Aid Survivor Reference Group: 26 March
Arrangements for paying for legal advice deemed to be unfair, or to cause problematic debt, also ...
Committee reports
Date published:
19 March 2025
Stage 1 report on the Land Reform (Scotland) Bill - Part 2
Chapter 3 of Part 2 makes changes in relation to agricultural holdings, specifically:
Diversification – providing tenant farmers with greater opportunity to diversify their business, and in that way to improve farm incomes and help address the twin crises of climate change and biodiversity loss;
Agricultural improvements – giving tenant farmers more scope to improve their holdings, and participate in sustainable and regenerative agriculture;
Good husbandry and estate management rules – ensuring that tenant farmers can undertake sustainable and regenerative agricultural practices in accordance with these rules;
Waygo (the term for a tenancy ending) – enabling tenants and landlords to resolve waygo claims in good time and both move on;
Rent review – drawing on the work of the Tenant Farming Commissioner, to create a flexible ‘hybrid’ system of review better suited to modern needs;
Resumption – ensuring that tenant farmers receive fair compensation where the landlord takes back any part of the leased land;
Compensation for game damage – modernising the compensation for game damage provisions by making good a wider range of losses; and
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Committee reports
Date published:
17 January 2025
Delegated powers in the Land Reform (Scotland) Bill at Stage 1 - Statutory consultation
The Committee considers that there is a clear distinction between the general obligation on public authorities to consult where they consider it necessary and a statutory pre-requisite to carry out a consultation before exercising the powers.
Committee reports
Date published:
15 November 2024
Report tracking the work of the Local Government, Housing and Planning Committee 2023-24 - Visitor Levy (Scotland) Bill
This issue is explored in more detail in the Committee's pre-budget scrutiny letter this year.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
30 April 2024
Scottish Languages Bill - 2010 Working Group on Scots
Under Education, the Working Group said—
This is one of the areas in which action is most urgently required, at all levels: pre-school, primary, secondary and tertiary (the latter including teacher training).
SPICe briefings
Date published:
5 October 2023
Report from a partial evaluation of the Lobbying (Scotland) Act 2016 - Transparency International assessment for lobbying transparency
Access to public information, via freedom of information (FOI) regimes5. Pre and post-employment restrictions to reduce risks associated with the revolving door between the public and private sector9.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
13 June 2023
Bail and Release from Custody (Scotland) Bill: Consideration prior to Stage 3 - Section 5
Section 5
Section 5 of the Bill as introduced sought to place a requirement on courts, when imposing a custodial sentence, to have regard to any period the person spent on bail subject to an electronically monitored curfew condition. This could be pre-trial bail or bail whilst awaiting sentence.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
16 March 2023
Children (Care and Justice) (Scotland) Bill - Getting it Right for Every Child (GIRFEC)
In many local authorities, children under 18 do have a non-statutory key point of contact known as the 'named person'. For pre-school children, the named person will usually be a health visitor and for school aged children it will likely be a senior, deputy or head teacher.
Committee reports
Date published:
6 March 2023
Bail and Release from Custody (Scotland) Bill Stage 1 Report - Section 1 - Input from justice social work in relation to bail decisions
The change seeks to support better informed decisions on bail at the pre-conviction stage of proceedings.
