Scottish Government postpones dumping corroborative evidence until ‘after the...
Continuing serious and widespread concern and criticism of the Scottish Government’s stubborn will to abolish Scots law’s requirement for corroborating evidence to secure conviction saw a retreat today...
View ArticlePublic views sought – give them – on safeguards to cover the proposed loss of...
Under the current legal system, evidence is required from at least two different and independent sources in support of each crucial fact before a defendant can be convicted of a crime.The Scottish...
View ArticleMacAskill damaging record at Justice and Policing but right on Megrahi
Beleaguered Justice Secretary, Kenny MacAskill, has made an almighty mess of too much at the Justice department to survive – although the concentrated attack on his performance has not come when it...
View ArticleArming of police adds seriously to undermining of Scottish justice
Justice Secretary , Kenny MacAskill, chose not to disclose to the public that many police in Scotland now legally carry arms – holstered guns – in a process now very much more easily activated than has...
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