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Iain Nisbet

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Petition PE1197

Iain Nisbet
November 20, 2008 23:50

Petition by Bill Alexander calling on the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scottish Government to reform the legal system to adopt the Scandinavian system of allowing unrestricted access to legal representation before the court for example by allowing non-lawyers to appear in court on behalf of...

Stunning Pensioner

Iain Nisbet
November 03, 2008 23:14

The Best Stun Gun blog (no, really) reports that a man has been fined in Edinburgh Sheriff Court for importing an illegal stun gun. South African Vernon White (73), by all accounts was visiting some friends in the Veldt. They decided that returning to Leith would be too risky for him without...

Sturgeon "not persuaded" on euthanasia

Iain Nisbet
November 03, 2008 23:06

Nicola Sturgeon MSP, the Health Secretary, has been reported as saying she was "not persuaded" that assisted suicide should be made legal, after independent MSP Margo MacDonald said she hoped to bring legislation on the subject before Holyrood next year. Ms. Sturgeon (with whom I once...

Rape law concerns

Iain Nisbet
October 29, 2008 23:29

Campaign groups have expressed concern over the "limitations" of new legislation which aims to strengthen the law on rape. The groups, including Rape Crisis Scotland, Scottish Women's Aid and Victim Support Scotland, presented their worries about the Sexual Offences (Scotland) Bill to...

What do Judges actually do?

Iain Nisbet
October 29, 2008 00:15

"You are to know, says he, that the Judges do not sit in court to do Business above three Hours in the day, that is from Eight in the Morning to Eleven. After they have taken some Refreshment, the Method is, to spend the rest of the Day in the Study of the Law, reading of the Holy...