Section 3 — Amendment of provisions relating to transferred life prisoners

Part of Convention Rights (Compliance) (Scotland) Bill: Stage 3 – in the Scottish Parliament at 3:15 pm on 30 May 2001.

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Photo of Iain Gray Iain Gray Labour 3:15, 30 May 2001

The prisoner will be called to the High Court and it will be for the court to make the decision. It will use the same means, including background reports and psychiatric reports, as it would do if it were, for example, making a decision about whether someone was fit to plead: it would use the means that it wanted to use. The decision will be based on the wording in amendment 20, but it will be taken in the High Court.

Amendment 20 agreed to.

[Amendments 21, 41 and 3 moved—[Mr Jim Wallace]—and agreed to.]