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Public Petitions Committee 23 February 2016

23 Feb 2016 · S4 · Public Petitions Committee
Item of business
Continued Petitions
Judiciary (Register of Interests) (PE1458)
McMahon, Michael Lab Uddingston and Bellshill Watch on SPTV
PE1458, which was brought by Peter Cherbi, is on a register of interests for members of Scotland’s judiciary. We have written to the new Lord President, whose position is no different from that of the outgoing Lord President. However, we invited the outgoing Lord President to come to the committee to discuss the petition; does the committee want to extend the same invitation to the new Lord President, so that we can explore the issue? There is still a live debate on the matter, and I would certainly be reluctant to close the petition without having exhausted the discussion and examined the issue—almost to destruction, I think. There are serious questions to ask.

In the same item of business

The Convener Lab
PE1458, which was brought by Peter Cherbi, is on a register of interests for members of Scotland’s judiciary. We have written to the new Lord President, who...
Kenny MacAskill (Edinburgh Eastern) (SNP) SNP
There is clearly still debate about the matter. It was the Judicial Complaints Reviewer who initially indicated a change in tack, which was upheld. Where we...
The Convener Lab
There are still issues to be debated and it would be useful to get the new Lord President’s views on the record. The question is whether we, as an out-going ...
Kenny MacAskill SNP
I would be inclined to leave it in the legacy paper on the basis that we have had a reasonably full letter from Lord Carloway. If we were to squeeze him in w...
John Wilson Ind
The petitioner has suggested that the committee write to Professor Alan Paterson of the University of Strathclyde, who has apparently done some independent a...
The Convener Lab
The suggestion is that we put it in our legacy paper and write to Professor Paterson, as John Wilson suggested, so that his response would be available to th...
Kenny MacAskill SNP
I am fine with that. It would also be up to the future committee to consider what will be on-going in the United States of America, where judicial declaratio...
The Convener Lab
It is interesting to watch what is happening there and compare it.