Results 61–80 of 4306 for speaker:Robert Brown

Scottish Parliament: Criminal Justice System (Appeals) ( 3 Mar 2011)

Robert Brown: You have seen them.

Scottish Parliament: Damages (Scotland) Bill: Stage 3 ( 3 Mar 2011)

Robert Brown: This is an important issue, but I am not sure that I fully understand all the implications. However, I am clear that the legislation needs to be implemented smoothly and effectively but not necessarily speedily—although we do want it to be brought into force as speedily as possible. I will make two points to supplement the comments made by the minister and Bill Aitken, both of whom I...

Scottish Parliament: Damages (Scotland) Bill ( 3 Mar 2011)

Robert Brown: When I was in professional practice, I dealt with cases of this type across the board, including injury cases and some death cases. We must remember, as Bill Butler said, that at the heart of all these cases lie not just legal principles and legal issues, but real people, relatives and families who are affected by the way in which the law and the legal system operate. That is the fundamental...

Scottish Parliament: Property Factors (Scotland) Bill ( 3 Mar 2011)

Robert Brown: I join others in congratulating Patricia Ferguson on bringing the bill to a conclusion. It is important, but she will recognise that it is part of a wider panoply of bills and legislation on problems that stretch across landlords, factors, tenants, houses in multiple occupation and a series of interconnected matters that are extremely difficult to disentangle in particular situations and...

Scottish Parliament: Grampian Police ( 3 Mar 2011)

Robert Brown: It seems to follow from that that the status quo is not an option; it has already been ruled out. Is that not the case?

Scottish Parliament: Grampian Police ( 3 Mar 2011)

Robert Brown: I think that I am right in saying that, when a certain incident occurred not so long ago in the north of England, a substantial amount of assistance was given by Strathclyde Police and other Scottish police forces. There are going to be cross-border issues anyway in major incidents, so why is that incompatible with the current structure?

Scottish Parliament: Secretary of State for Scotland (Meetings) (24 Feb 2011)

Robert Brown: We all are anxious to see the success of the 2014 Glasgow Commonwealth games, which will be a huge event for the city and country. However, is the First Minister aware of reports that 46 milestones that the organising committee set may not have been met? It was reported that the completion date for the accommodation plan has slipped by nine months and that there is still no agreement on the...

Scottish Parliament: Cadder Judgment (23 Feb 2011)

Robert Brown: If 867 cases—some of which are very serious—cannot be prosecuted, that is a great public concern. However, the cabinet secretary seems to be in denial about the fact that Scots law went off at a tangent on the interrogation of suspects that was out of line with widely accepted international justice standards. He has a huge problem with decisions on such matters by the UK Supreme Court,...

Scottish Parliament: Migration and Trafficking (23 Feb 2011)

Robert Brown: I join others in thanking the Equal Opportunities Committee for its work on this matter. The report is substantial, has on-going aspirations and will be supplemented later this year by the report of the inquiry into the extent and incidence of trafficking in Scotland that is being conducted by Baroness Kennedy under the sponsorship of the Equality and Human Rights Commission. I have been...

Scottish Parliament written answers — Child Welfare: Child Welfare (16 Feb 2011)

Robert Brown: To ask the Scottish Executive for what reason the report of the short-life working group on school meal and clothing grant provision was not published until 22 months after it was completed.

Scottish Parliament: Double Jeopardy (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1 ( 3 Feb 2011)

Robert Brown: One of the practical problems with retrospectivity that the committee came up against and raised in its report was the potential destruction of productions at the conclusion of the original trial. Can the minister enlighten us on the implications of that?

Scottish Parliament: Double Jeopardy (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1 ( 3 Feb 2011)

Robert Brown: The issue seems to centre on the test before we allow a prosecution for murder following an acquittal. Does the cabinet secretary accept that, if the principle of double jeopardy is to have meaning, we must have a test before allowing a further prosecution, and that it has to be of the nature of the new-evidence test, if not precisely the same?

Scottish Parliament: Double Jeopardy (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1 ( 3 Feb 2011)

Robert Brown: Like many justice bills that the Parliament has previously considered, the Double Jeopardy (Scotland) Bill is important legislation enshrining in statute the old Scots law principle that—to use the old word for an accused person—a panel who has tholed their assize and been acquitted cannot be tried again or put into double jeopardy on the same matter. The decision of the court or jury is...

Scottish Parliament: Double Jeopardy (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1 ( 3 Feb 2011)

Robert Brown: I take Mr Stevenson’s point but, to be quite frank, I think that such a situation would be pretty unusual. The question whether the prosecution was on indictment would probably depend on the nature and severity of the offence, rather than the adequacy of the evidence and I think that, in practical terms, we can probably disregard the member’s suggestion. I was not persuaded by the...

Scottish Parliament: Double Jeopardy (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1 ( 3 Feb 2011)

Robert Brown: Does the member accept that, leaving aside boasting, there really is no distinction of principle, in respect of the merits of the issue, between a particle of evidence that relates to an admission and a particle of evidence that relates to something else? What is the principal difference between the two situations?

Scottish Parliament: Double Jeopardy (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1 ( 3 Feb 2011)

Robert Brown: I am not quite clear what Mr Stevenson has in mind, but I wonder whether he is thinking of the Megrahi case and the situation whereby the reported death of Mr Megrahi, in due course, would have interrupted the re-review of proceedings. Does he think that that would have given rise to an issue whereby the victims would have been deprived of the opportunity to test the issues before the appeal...

Scottish Parliament: Double Jeopardy (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1 ( 3 Feb 2011)

Robert Brown: I take that point. I was interested in the point that my colleague Mike Pringle made when he quoted the ECHR rules, which refer to tainted prosecutions and new evidence, but not to admissions. Does Mr Aitken have a view on whether that affects the argument and whether we should incorporate the admissions issue into the new-evidence issue, as we have discussed in the Justice Committee?

Scottish Parliament: Double Jeopardy (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1 ( 3 Feb 2011)

Robert Brown: I ask the minister to consider Mike Pringle’s point about the wording of the ECHR arrangements regarding double jeopardy—which I have not recently read, and had actually forgotten about. Does the fact that the ECHR provisions at least appear to cover the two categories of tainted evidence and new evidence give the Scottish Government pause for thought as to whether that should be the...

Scottish Parliament: Glasgow Sheriff Court (One-stop Shop) ( 3 Feb 2011)

Robert Brown: Does the First Minister agree that major gains for public safety will result from the speedier and more effective community orders such as those that are assisted by the project in Glasgow? Community payback orders typically cost £1,000 to £4,000. Does he agree that the proper way forward is to sort the problems with community payback orders and not to bang up people unnecessarily by way of...

Scottish Parliament written answers — Prison Service: Prison Service ( 3 Feb 2011)

Robert Brown: To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-38511 by Kenny MacAskill on 24 January 2011, how much has been paid to prisons to hold prisoners beyond the base level in each of the last three years, also broken down by establishment, and for what projects the money has been used.


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