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Specific considerations include:
relevant criminal convictions
whether the applicant has breached the law in relation to mobile homes, housing or the supply of utilities
whether the applicant has engaged in antisocial behaviour.
Councils will make the final decision on the fit and proper person test.
Conduct complaints are intended to address any poor behaviour of legal practitioners. As the Bill provides for hybrid issues complaints (those containing elements of both inadequate services and poor conduct) this will ensure that by removing compensation in conduct cases there will be no consumer detriment.
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- Undertake a specific and focused piece of work to examine the range of fiscal measures used by other countries to incentivise positive behaviours and to develop proposals to go further in this area - Climate Change Plan update.
Abusive Behaviour and Sexual Harm (Scotland) Act 2016 and Sexual Offences Act 2003
The new measures will allow Scotland to commence and use the new orders introduced in the 2016 Act, namely Sexual Harm Prevention Orders (SHPOs) and Sexual Risk Orders (SROs), by making these enforceable within other UK jurisdictions.
Children's legal assistance (for Children's Hearings)
The Children's Hearing system deals with situations where there are concerns about a child's welfare
This could be because of abuse, neglect, problematic behaviour or because the child is alleged to have committed a criminal offence.
This not only arises from delays in seeking and receiving treatment, but also from an increase in unhealthy lifestyle behaviours like reduced physical activity and unhealthy eating, the harms of which may not be felt for years to come.
It also highlights a number of commitments in relation to:
whole population mental health
mental health inequality
support for people who are made redundant
children, young people and families
people with long term health conditions and disabilities
older people
Distress Brief Intervention programme and computerised Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
the remobil...
Other elements of the new statutory offence overlap with existing common law offences (assault and breach of the peace) and existing statutory offences (threatening or abusive behaviour).iPolicy Memorandum
The Policy Memorandum notes that levels of crime against workers in the retail sector, including those involved in the sale or supply of age-restricted g...
Whether an adult is a vulnerable witness in an individual case can be established by the court applying a statutory test which considers a range of factors.iBroadly speaking, these factors relate to the characteristics of that person; the behaviour of the other litigant (and his or her family and associates); the relationship between the witness and the lit...