A Very Large Agenda for the Judicial Inquiry That Is Needed On the Shirley Mckie Case
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IT IS claimed we have a Scottish Executive that listens and is responsive to public opinion. As each day passes and more and more people join the call for a judicial inquiry into the Shirley McKie case it becomes increasingly obvious that the opposite is the truth.
Lord Macaulay (Letters, April 10) joins Lords Mackay and McCluskey and a growing list of Scotland's foremost legal brains in supporting a judicial inquiry and still the first minister, minister for justice, lord advocate and their colleagues in the Scottish Executive persist in a collective act of head-burying. Proof of this, if proof were needed, comes in the form of the revelation that the lord advocate has been made a peer in the House of Lords. Only a few weeks ago in the Scottish Parliament we heard him angrily reject accusations of bias and political expediency in his refusal to prosecute the Scottish Criminal Records Office experts as recommended by the police. He explained in hurt tones that his independence was sacrosanct and essential to the probity of the Scottish justice system.See the full content of this document
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A Very Large Agenda for the Judicial Inquiry That Is Needed On the Shirley Mckie Case
Now, in an unbelievable act of naked ambition and arrogance, ...
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