This search includes all content on the Scottish Parliament website, except for Votes and Motions. All Official Reports (what has been said in Parliament) and Questions and Answers are available from 1999. You can refine your search by adding and removing filters.
We are considering how to develop effective and affordable ways of getting advice to victims and of enabling victims to access the courts where necessary.
Key problems with the more technical matters have yet to be overcome in their entirety. For example, we have to get the language in the teaching materials right and not get academics to write them for primary school pupils.
That sends a clear signal to— What does "the same petition" mean? Let us not get into what is ultimately a matter for the Public Petitions Committee to determine when it considers a dispute.
I wanted to raise the question whether, under article 6 of the ECHR, individuals should be able to get legal aid for persons other than solicitors who represent them at tribunals.
We should not take a decision today, but should write to the minister to challenge him on what his response on the matter will be. If we get a happy response, that will be fine.