tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1638916042737526171.post77181034444411850..comments2024-03-19T07:14:04.745+00:00Comments on Lallands Peat Worrier: John McTernan's "trumped up posturing..."Lallands Peat Worrierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18276270498204697708noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1638916042737526171.post-75418891535312798672011-03-04T21:27:13.967+00:002011-03-04T21:27:13.967+00:00Is there some sort of monetary prize for pipping h...Is there some sort of monetary prize for pipping her to the post? That said, you give Mr McTernan more deliberative credit than I would...Lallands Peat Worrierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07238432265194046726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1638916042737526171.post-7692440995546989302011-03-04T19:53:59.679+00:002011-03-04T19:53:59.679+00:00She didn't spot as many deliberate mistakes as...She didn't spot as many deliberate mistakes as you did, though, LPW!Am Firinnnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1638916042737526171.post-44477927065328779172011-03-04T10:53:16.679+00:002011-03-04T10:53:16.679+00:00Am Firinn,
Further to your point, I notice that ...Am Firinn, <br /><br />Further to your point, I notice that <a href="http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/opinion/Letter-Threat-to-Scots-law.6728088.jp" rel="nofollow">Fiona Hyslop has letter rebutting McTernan's article</a> in the <i>Scotsman</i> this morning. She too suggests that the Expert Group Report was published on the 31st of January.Lallands Peat Worrierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07238432265194046726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1638916042737526171.post-54288033711497627772011-03-03T20:25:34.294+00:002011-03-03T20:25:34.294+00:00Am Firinn,
You raise a perfectly fair point. It i...Am Firinn,<br /><br />You raise a perfectly fair point. It is one thing for me to be a bit sloppy about when a report was finalised and published, quite another for the Mouth of Wallace to do so. Not least because such information, I'd assume, was easily available to them.Lallands Peat Worrierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07238432265194046726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1638916042737526171.post-61614930478423469192011-03-03T19:39:03.068+00:002011-03-03T19:39:03.068+00:00The Sheriffs' Association was quite pointed. T...The Sheriffs' Association was quite pointed. They said:-<br /><br />The means by which a fair trial is achieved, and other convention rights respected, in the idiosyncratic Scottish legal system is best regulated by a court which is applying its own procedures and law of evidence and is located within that system. The High Court of Justiciary is familiar with the idiosyncrasies of the Scottish system which achieves a fair trial by its own mechanisms. Some of these are unique to Scotland, namely the requirement for corroboration and the not proven verdict. Given the unique features of the law in Scotland, it may not be possible to interpret the requirements of article 6 in precisely the same way in all of the United Kingdom jurisdictions. <br /><br />(b). The imposition of procedural requirements by the Supreme Court may eliminate the independence of the Scottish legal system. <br /><br />Well, quite. But I am still fizzing about the date of publication of the Expert Group response. As it happens, I had been keeping a close watch for it and know exactly when it was published. But that it wasn't published in November is a matter of public record, confessed by the AG himself - see Col 54 of the Official Report of the Scotland Bill Committee for 14 December 2010. Now, we can expect little other than untruths from Mr McTernan, but for the AG's spokesman to suggest the Expert Group report had been published in November is very disappointing. <br /><br />Sorry. I'll try and change the record now.Am Firinnnoreply@blogger.com