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Mandelson’s lawyers said to have threatened MAG group to halt tomorrow’s...
The words ‘leopard’ and ‘spots’ swirl into mind. Lawyers acting for the Business Secretary Peter Mandelson have sent a letter to the six members of the Merger Action Group (MAG) in a attempt to get...
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MAG’s last stand for HBOS fails at Competition Appeal Tribunal
The six-member Merger Action Group brought a last-minute legal challenge to the UK Government-brokered Lloyds TSB takeover of Halifax Bank of Scotland (HBOS).The Competition Appeal Tribunal was asked...
View ArticleScots service families welcome progress in move to hold inquests in Scotland...
Until now, inquests into the deaths abroad of Scots servicemen have had to be held on England. This has led to two problems – delays in the inquests in England with the volume to be heard and the...
View ArticleCrown Estates ‘ownership’ of Scotland’s seabed exposed
For Argyll has repeatedly questioned the role of the Crown Estate, the accepted owner of the seabed around the UK, including Scotland, out to the 12 mile limit – and busily engaged in licensing...
View ArticleJustice Secretary repairs one error with Police Scotland and stands to make a...
Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill, whose decision to free Abdelbaset al-Megrahi For Argyll supported unequivocally – is looking at two major blunders of his own making. One has not yet gone the whole...
View ArticleFirst Minister’s contradiction
In his new year message First Minister, Alex Salmond, has called upon Scots to support the building of a just and prosperous society.If he means to do that himself, the First Minister must reverse...
View ArticleScottish Parliament’s Justice Committee tries a decoy from the corroboration row
UK Home Office Minister, Karen Bradley, has offered to visit Edinburgh to discuss the issue of EU Arrest Warrants with the Scottish Government. Sandra White, an SNP MSP, has today, 9th March, called on...
View ArticleIf we lose corroboration, we will all be vulnerable to wrongful prosecution...
On 27th February 2014 the SNP majority forced through the Scottish Parliament the first stage of the Criminal Justice [Scotland] Bill by 64 votes to 5 – with 57 abstentions.The figures are alone proof...
View ArticleWithout corroborating evidence, what would a jury do with this?
Most of us continue to believe in the trustworthiness of the police – in general. We know, as does the UK at large, though – and on corroborated evidence – that there are good cops and bad cops, as...
View ArticleCandidates and issues in Oban South and the Isles by-election
[Updated 11.58] There are five candidates for the vacant seat for Ward 4 of Argyll and Bute Council – Oban, South and the Isles, to be contested on 22nd May 2014, at the same time as the Europe-wide...
View ArticleFocus on cost of access to law in questions raised over proposed court reforms
Key aspects of a wide-ranging Bill aimed at reforming the Scottish civil court processes have been questioned by the Scottish Parliament’s Justice Committee in a report published today [9th May].The...
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...
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 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 ArticleScottish 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...
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