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In fact, the document goes further than that.The minister may recall that my colleague, Fergus Ewing, wrote to her on 7 April about one of the voluntary organisations in his constituency, which believes that it may be about to be sued.
Only the courts or the Lord Advocate can do so. Mrs Grahame may be referring to the powers available to the police under section 22 of the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995, whereby the police may liberate a person who"has been arrested and charged with an offence which may be tried summarily".
There are aspects of legislation in Scotland that may currently be described as stronger than the legislation in England and Wales and aspects that may be described as weaker.
It is certainly a legal route that is worth trying, although the Commission may well disagree with that interpretation—it may say that one can still discriminate even if one is not overcompensating.
Depending on the details of the case, there might be different recommendations. There may have been a bit of a problem with drugs—and the problem may still be there—but there is no evidence, from mandatory drug tests, of drugs having been consumed.
Two services have been withdrawn—left-luggage facilities and bins, the disappearance of which the member may or may not have noticed. Those are national security issues.
The Independent effectively produces a unified edition structure for the UK, and tobacco advertising may or may not be unlawful in it. Thirdly, magazines such as FHM also have a unified edition structure for the UK.