" class="left_link">» Text Here“Annabel Goldie picks her team for Holyrood elections” Scotsman
“Annabel Goldie announces Scottish Tory reshuffle” Telegraph
Press release
“New Shadow Cabinet” Scottish Conservatives
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Scottish Parliament: John Lamont MSP
Posted by MM on Fri 21st May 2010 at 11:24 am“Is the freedom to beg a right worth defending?” Evening News
Posted by MM on Fri 29th Jan 2010 at 10:21 am“Glasgow: there’s been another murder” Times
“Families at war” Scottish Sun
“Government action against gangsters urged after supermarket shooting” Herald
“‘Nail crimelords after Asda shooting’” Scotsman
“There will be blood” Scottish Sun
“Police hunting three men in Glasgow gangland supermarket murder” STV
“Replacement for Trident nukes ‘delayed indefinitely’” Sunday Herald
Posted by MM on Mon 11th Jan 2010 at 4:43 pmIn the article Justice, Mercy and Punishment Professor Antony Duff considered the question of mercy and criminal justice, and critically applied it to the release of Abdelbaset Ali al–Megrahi on compassionate grounds in August this year. Professor Lindsay Farmer’s analysis of the place of mercy in criminal justice, published here as Mercy and Criminal Justice: a reply to Antony Duff led to the opposite conclusion. In this short response, Duff argues that the exercise of mercy in these circumstances is in conflict with justice and that this distinguishes the sort of decision made in Megrahi from the exercise of discretion in sentencing, or where the rigour of the criminal law must be tempered to be just.
Access this exchange on our CjScotland articles page or go directly to:
Antony Duff (December 2009) Mercy and Criminal Justice: A Response to Lindsay Farmer (html) | .pdf version
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“Labour in Holyrood tax power pledge” Courier
“Scotland to get more tax–raising powers in devolution shake–up, says Scots Secretary Jim Murphy” Daily Record
“Labour–Tory alliance on Scotland’s powers comes unstuck” Guardian
“Scotland to get income tax power in devolution shake–up” Herald
“Taxes, airguns, drink–driving and a swipe at the SNP” Times
“David Cameron: Salmond is wrong. A Tory win will not help him” Times
“Labour’s proposals for more devolution” Scotsman
“George Osborne : Defence of the Union and mutual respect key in debate over powers” Scotsman
“Labour tells Scots: you can set your own level of income tax” Telegraph
“Anger as new Scots tax powers face delay” Press and Journal
“More powers for Holyrood in constitutional shake up” STV
“New Holyrood powers planned after Calman review” BBC
Following posted on 23.11.09
“Pressure mounts over airgun, alcohol powers” Courier
“More ammunition for Holyrood as airgun ban powers set for transfer” Herald
“Air–weapon victims hail hope of ban in Scotland” Press and Journal
“Whitehall agress to hand Holyrood power over airguns” Times
“Jim Murphy presses for more Scottish powers” Times
“Holyrood’s watershed” Scotland on Sunday
“MSPs to get power from Westminster to ban air guns” BBC
“Power to ban airguns to be given to MSPs” STV
“MSP appeals over drink–drive limit” Press and Journal
“Let Scotland cut drink–drive limit, MSP urges” BBC
“New demands to give Holyrood powers to cut drink–drive limit” STV
Following posted on 19.11.09
“Murphy: Holyrood will be given the power to raise taxes” Herald
“The new bills” Herald
“Pressure mounting to publish Bill handing tax powers to Scotland” Times
“Calman Commission plans unveiled soon, says Jim Murphy” Telegraph
“Queen’s Speech: Bill–by–bill” BBC
“Devolution as evolution” BBC (Brian Taylor)
Press releases
“Queen’s Speech” Scot.Gov.
“Queen’s Speech to help Scotland from recession to recovery” Scotland Office
“UK Government agrees new powers to strengthen Devolution” Scotland Office
“Timetable for Calman changes” Scot.Gov.
See also
Queen’s Speech 2009 (transcript)
Hansard 25.11.09: Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. Jim Murphy). Scotland’s Future in the UK.
White Paper: Scotland’s Future in the United Kingdom
Research hint: For more posts on the airgun issue search ‘gun’ in the Search box. For more posts on the alcohol limit for driving search ‘drive’. For more on the Calman Commission search ‘Calman’.
Posted by MM on Thu 26th Nov 2009 at 9:09 am“MSPs clash on police budget cut claims” Press and Journal
“Pressure grows on MacAskill over funding” Press and Journal
“Policymakers ‘do not live in the real world’” Herald
See also
Justice Committee: Scottish Government’s Draft Budget 2010–11
Posted by MM on Thu 5th Nov 2009 at 10:35 am“Progress made in battle against deprivation in city’s worst areas Herald
“‘I don’t see how this area can be the most deprived in Scotland’” Herald
“Scotland’s most deprived areas are improving, minister claims” Herald
“Most deprived areas in Scotland remain trapped in poverty five years after warnings” Times
“‘Most deprived’ areas identified” BBC
“Glasgow is winning its war on poverty” Evening Times
Press release
“Priority given to tackling deprivation” Scot.Gov.
See also
Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation
Equal Communities In A Fairer Scotland: A Joint Statement (SG and COSLA)
“Crime … the key to cracking pivotal by–election battle” Express
Posted by MM on Mon 26th Oct 2009 at 9:25 am“Nationalist MP’s email swipe at Scots law” Scotland on Sunday
Posted by KM on Mon 5th Oct 2009 at 7:12 am