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New areas of law are being developed all the time and the system needs to keep up to date. I guess that we are as guilty as anyone else of causing that.
After all, they spent most of the past week adopting good, sensible Liberal Democrat policies, particularly on the independence of the Bank of England and the setting of interest rates.
We must examine our experiences to date. No prisoner has gone to the prison ombudsman about being incarcerated in Peterhead because it is too far away.
First, white-fish boats have been mostly scrapped following decommissioning. Secondly, no bank manager is going to give a loan to a fisherman to move from one type of fishing to another, and I know that for a fact.
When the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council was set up, Sir John Shaw was its chairman. He brought with him the Bank of Scotland's model of the relationship between a board and an executive.
Does the member accept that the problem is that we do not have the power to implement that social conscience, whereas bodies such as the European Central Bank do? I do not accept that at all.
Today, having obtained counsel from campaigners, I intend to concentrate on the outstanding and very much alive demand for a full, independent public inquiry.To date, we have been asked to accept the judgment of ministers past and present.