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“Abuse victim backs new alarms” Evening Times
“Police to issue new alarms to domestic abuse victims in city” Evening Times
“G8 police praised” Scotsman
“Tayside praised for G8 policing” BBC
Press release
“Tayside Police inspection” Scot. Exec.
“HMIC Publishes Review Inspection on Tayside Police” Tayside Police
“Minister to add 22 new sheriffs” Evening News
“New jobs aid courts” Daily Record 1.6.06
“Twenty two part-time sheriffs appointed” Law Society Journal Online
Press release
“New part-time sheriffs appointed” Scot. Exec.
Update
“Advocates join attack over judicial reform” Herald
“Senior legal figure attacks Executive proposals” Law Society Journal Online
“Judiciary fears threat to independence” Scotsman 3.6.06
Following posted on 31.5.06
“McConnell warned: stop trying to undermine judiciary” Herald
“A damning verdict” Herald
See also
Strengthening Judicial Independence in a Modern Scotland (February 2006)
Also
CjScotland 14.3.06: McCluskey on judicial independence
CjScotland 14.2.06: Judicial Appointments and Removals Bill consultation launched
According to the note at the end of the Consultation ‘where respondents have given permission for their response to be made public these will be made available to the public in the Scottish Executive Library by 31 May 2006.’ Contact phone number: 0131 244 4565
Posted by MM on Thu 1st Jun 2006 at 7:08 am“Drunks and beggars hit by another square ban” Evening News
“Police in new blitz on drunks” Daily Record 1.6.06
Also
CjScotland 4.4.06: Drunks back in Hunter Square following expiration of dispersal order
The Justice 1 Committee met yesterday 31st May and took evidence at Stage 1 of the Criminal Proceedings etc. (Reform) (Scotland) Bill from Elish Angiolini QC, Solicitor General for Scotland, Scott Pattison, Head of Policy Unit and Jim Brisbane, Deputy Crown Agent, Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service; and Hugh Henry MSP, Deputy Minister for Justice, Wilma Dickson, Head of Criminal Procedure Division, and Noel Rehfisch, Bill Team Leader, Scottish Executive.
Papers
“Legal aid fees face reform to speed up justice” Scotsman
“Minister promises summary legal aid shake-up” Law Society Journal Online