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Roderick Campbell SNP Committee

12 Nov 2013

Victims and Witnesses (Scotland) Bill: Stage 2

I refer members to my entry in the register of members’ interests, which states that I am a member of the Faculty of Advocates.I have sympathy with Margaret Mitchell’s amendment 85. On the point about legal aid, I rather concur with Elaine Murray. It does not seem appropriate ...

Roderick Campbell SNP Committee

11 Mar 2014

Petition

The key point is whether the notice of appeal is required to be signed by two Scottish counsel who must certify that the appeal is reasonable. What is reasonable was reaffirmed by the Supreme Court in the case of a constituent of mine in April last year that referred to a prev...

Roderick Campbell SNP Committee

03 Dec 2013

Criminal Justice (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1

I refer to my entry in the register of interests as a member of the Faculty of Advocates.On the no-reasonable-jury test that Ms McCall mentioned, we heard evidence last week from the Faculty of Advocates that Lord Carloway had made two points in opposition to it, the first of ...

Roderick Campbell (North East Fife) (SNP) SNP Chamber

25 Oct 2012

Scottish Civil Justice Council and Criminal Legal Assistance Bill: Stage 1

I refer members to my entry in the register of members’ interests as a member of the Faculty of Advocates.As we know, the bill is in two parts. It is fair to say that one of the points of contention about part 1 was that, given the bill’s provisions on mandatory appointments s...

Roderick Campbell (North East Fife) (SNP) SNP Chamber

19 Jun 2013

Victims and Witnesses (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1

I welcome the opportunity to speak in the debate and I refer to my register of interests, as I am a member of the Faculty of Advocates.I believe that the bill is a welcome step forward and comprises a package of measures that are designed to ensure that those who find themselv...

Roderick Campbell (North East Fife) (SNP) SNP Chamber

27 Feb 2014

Criminal Justice (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1

I refer to my entry in the register of members’ interests as a member of the Faculty of Advocates.Although the Criminal Justice (Scotland) Bill is substantial, public attention has tended to concentrate almost exclusively on the proposal to abolish the requirement for corrobor...

Roderick Campbell SNP Committee

23 Jun 2015

Apologies (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1

I should refer to my entry in the register of interests, in which I state that I am a member of the Faculty of Advocates. I refer you to the evidence that Mr Stephenson of the Faculty of Advocates gave on 9 June. He said that, in the faculty’s view, “the purpose of the bill i...

Roderick Campbell (North East Fife) (SNP) SNP Committee

06 Jan 2015

Subordinate Legislation

I refer to my entry in the register of interests—I am a member of the Faculty of Advocates. In the faculty’s submission, James Wolffe QC on the faculty’s behalf questions “whether the SSIs draw the boundaries sufficiently tightly, given the importance of lawyer-client confi...

Roderick Campbell (North East Fife) (SNP) SNP Chamber

20 Jun 2012

Criminal Cases (Punishment and Review) (Scotland) Bill

I refer to my declaration of interests, as I am a member of the Faculty of Advocates.It seems to have been a long time since we commenced consideration of the bill. In relation to part 1, we should remember that we are dealing with a bill that is designed to deal with the part...

Roderick Campbell (North East Fife) (SNP) SNP Chamber

20 Sep 2012

Diploma in Professional Legal Practice (Access)

I refer to my declared interest as a member of the Faculty of Advocates.I congratulate Sarah Boyack on securing this members’ business debate and bringing the issue to the chamber. I also acknowledge the CFALP’s professional campaign.I have raised the subject in correspondence...

Roderick Campbell SNP Committee

14 May 2013

Victims and Witnesses (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1

Before I move on to my next question, I should refer members to my entry in the register of interests as a member of the Faculty of Advocates.Do you have any views on the suggestion made by the Faculty of Advocates that, particularly with regard to the introduction of sexual h...

Roderick Campbell SNP Committee

21 May 2013

Scottish Court Service

I refer to my entry in the register of members’ interests as a member of the Faculty of Advocates.I am interested in what the Faculty of Advocates said in its initial response to the consultation about Sheriff Taylor’s review of expenses, which has not yet reported, and the ex...

Roderick Campbell (North East Fife) (SNP) SNP Committee

17 Sep 2013

Tribunals (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1

I should perhaps refer to my register of interests as a member of the Faculty of Advocates.Last week, Jonathan Mitchell of the Faculty of Advocates gave evidence to the committee, and the first issue that I want to draw your attention to is the extent of the sifting procedure ...

Roderick Campbell (North East Fife) (SNP) SNP Chamber

07 Nov 2013

Tribunals (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1

I welcome the opportunity to speak in the debate and I declare my interest as a member of the Faculty of Advocates.As members are aware, the UK Government has announced that reserved tribunals will not be devolved to the Scottish Parliament, for the foreseeable future. That is...

Roderick Campbell (North East Fife) (SNP) SNP Chamber

18 Feb 2014

European Union Policies (Engagement and Scrutiny)

As the Justice Committee’s EU rapporteur, I am pleased to be speaking in this debate about the committee’s EU engagement last year and in 2014. The committee’s EU priorities for 2013 remain broadly the same for 2014, as they continue to be significant issues with major implica...

Roderick Campbell SNP Committee

03 Mar 2015

Human Trafficking and Exploitation (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1

We have been considering alternatives to the NRM with regard to the bill’s provisions at section 8(4) and section 8(5), on the “Duty to secure support and assistance”. As the Faculty of Advocates—of which I am a member; I declare an interest in that respect—mentions in its s...

Roderick Campbell SNP Committee

31 Mar 2015

Human Trafficking and Exploitation (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1

I refer to my interest as a member of the Faculty of Advocates. Last week, we took evidence from the Faculty of Advocates, Police Scotland and the Lord Advocate, and they said that the question of consent should be included in section 4. Do you agree with them on that point?

Roderick Campbell (North East Fife) (SNP) SNP Chamber

12 May 2015

Human Trafficking and Exploitation (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1

I refer to my registered interests as a member of the Faculty of Advocates and Amnesty International. I am pleased that trafficking has remained high on the political agenda in the current parliamentary session. We have been on a journey, from the day in 2007 at the Hub in Ed...

Roderick Campbell (North East Fife) (SNP) SNP Chamber

27 Oct 2015

Apologies (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1

I refer to my entry in the register of members’ interests as a member of the Faculty of Advocates. I belong to the school that believes that the bill as it is currently drafted, whatever the good intentions of the member who introduced it, may create more problems than it sol...

Roderick Campbell SNP Committee

05 Jan 2016

Abusive Behaviour and Sexual Harm (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1

I will pull together some of the threads that have been talked about in the past three questions. On whether expert evidence would be suitable, if I recall correctly, Professor Chalmers pointed out in his evidence that the law currently provides for expert evidence only on de...

Roderick Campbell (North East Fife) (SNP) SNP Chamber

19 Jan 2016

Apologies (Scotland) Bill

I declare an interest as a member of the Faculty of Advocates. Charles I is reported to have said: “Never make a defence or apology before you be accused.” Of course, he had an unfortunate fate. Perhaps he made his apology a little too late. Perhaps we should follow the lea...

Roderick Campbell (North East Fife) (SNP) SNP Chamber

28 Jan 2016

Abusive Behaviour and Sexual Harm (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1

I refer members to my entry in the register of interests, which says that I am a member of the Faculty of Advocates. The bill contains six distinct elements. On revenge porn, it is worth stressing that, as members have mentioned, it is currently possible to bring criminal pro...

Roderick Campbell (North East Fife) (SNP) SNP Chamber

22 Mar 2016

Abusive Behaviour and Sexual Harm (Scotland) Bill

I refer to my entry in the register of members’ interests as a member of the Faculty of Advocates. I begin by acknowledging Alison McInnes’s immense contribution to the issue of the alternatives to Cornton Vale. Applause. I turn to what is perhaps the most controversial pa...

Roderick Campbell SNP Committee

18 Sep 2012

Scottish Civil Justice Council and Criminal Legal Assistance Bill: Stage 1

On a separate point—I declare an interest, as a member of the Faculty of Advocates—last week I asked James Wolffe QC from the faculty whether he had any information on the likely level of reimbursement of expenses for acquitted defendants, particularly in current privately fun...

Roderick Campbell SNP Committee

26 Nov 2013

Criminal Justice (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1

On the question of the number of jurors in agreement—whether it should be 10 or 12; I will put it that way—the judges collectively seem to be happy enough with two thirds. However, the written evidence from the Faculty of Advocates suggests that, as that would still mean that ...

Roderick Campbell (North East Fife) (SNP) SNP Chamber

21 May 2014

Courts Reform (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1

I refer members to my entry in the register of interests as a member of the Faculty of Advocates. There is, as the convener of the Justice Committee suggested, no disagreement about the greater part of the bill. We need a court system that is fit for purpose, given that, as t...

Roderick Campbell SNP Committee

24 Mar 2015

Human Trafficking and Exploitation (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1

I want to raise an issue that has not been raised so far in this evidence session, and to which the written submission from the Faculty of Advocates refers: confiscation of property. I take it from reading the faculty’s submission that it feels that the provisions do not go fa...

Roderick Campbell SNP Committee

31 Mar 2015

Human Trafficking and Exploitation (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1

Cabinet secretary, last week we heard evidence from James Wolffe of the Faculty of Advocates that expanded on the faculty’s written submission.

Roderick Campbell SNP Committee

08 Dec 2015

Subordinate Legislation

I refer to my registered interest as a member of the Faculty of Advocates. I find the timescale a wee bit concerning, although I do not understand it fully. The faculty’s point is that the regulations that are before us now for consideration are not the regulations that it saw...

Roderick Campbell (North East Fife) (SNP) SNP Chamber

29 Jan 2013

Scottish Civil Justice Council and Criminal Legal Assistance Bill: Stage 3

Although a number of organisations believe that they should have a mandatory position on the council, including the Association of British Insurers and the Forum of Scottish Claims Managers, with which I have dealings, we will get into problems if we start to specify one over ...

Roderick Campbell SNP Committee

14 Jan 2014

Criminal Justice (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1

Just for good order, I refer to my entry in the register of interests, which shows that I am a member of the Faculty of Advocates.To follow on from the point that John Finnie made about the ECHR, I think that I am right in saying that Dame Elish Angiolini made a speech on the ...

Roderick Campbell (North East Fife) (SNP) SNP Committee

25 Mar 2014

Courts Reform (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1

I refer to my registered interest as a member of the Faculty of Advocates.I have a quick question on adoption and permanence. The Advocates Family Law Association takes the view that“adoption and permanence order cases should be removed from the list of family proceedings”that...

Roderick Campbell (North East Fife) (SNP) SNP Chamber

24 Sep 2015

Inquiries into Fatal Accidents and Sudden Deaths etc (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1

I apologise to the chamber for the fact that I will not be able to stay for the full debate because I have another pressing engagement. I refer members to my registered interest as a member of the Faculty of Advocates. In the light of recent events in another part of the coun...

Roderick Campbell SNP Committee

31 Mar 2015

Human Trafficking and Exploitation (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1

In its written submission, the faculty raised a technical point particularly in relation to section 10. Its submission says: “There is ... no ground specified in the Bill, other than the provision of security, on which an innocent owner can regain possession of property”. Th...

Roderick Campbell (North East Fife) (SNP) SNP Committee

14 Jun 2011

Interests

I am a member of the Faculty of Advocates.

Roderick Campbell (North East Fife) (SNP) SNP Chamber

30 Jun 2011

Scotland Bill (Supreme Court)

First of all, I, like others, wish to acknowledge the substantial contribution made to Scots law by the late Lord Rodger of Earlsferry, which is in my constituency. I am a member of the Faculty of Advocates; in accordance with its traditions, Lord Rodger was my great-grandfath...

Roderick Campbell SNP Committee

25 Oct 2011

Draft Budget 2012-13 and Spending Review 2011

I declare an interest as a member of the Faculty of Advocates. I want to pick up on what Lindsay Montgomery was saying on the difficulties in predicting the impact of the Welfare Reform Bill. It seems valid to point out that the bill is likely to increase demand slightly, but ...

Roderick Campbell (North East Fife) (SNP) SNP Committee

01 Nov 2011

Draft Budget 2012-13 and Spending Review 2011

I declare an interest as a member of the Faculty of Advocates.Lord Hamilton, you were reported as saying that marked efficiency improvements have been achieved in the Court of Session and the High Court in the past year. Has the downturn in the number of civil cases that have ...

Roderick Campbell SNP Committee

08 Nov 2011

Petitions

I declare an interest as a member of the Faculty of Advocates. In view of the review that Sheriff Principal Taylor is undertaking, the proper course is to write to him.

Roderick Campbell (North East Fife) (SNP) SNP Chamber

27 Oct 2011

Scots Criminal Law (Integrity)

I declare an interest as a member of the Faculty of Advocates.I welcome the findings of Lord McCluskey’s further report as part of the on-going debate about the UK Supreme Court and its relationship with the High Court of Justiciary. However, we should remind ourselves that th...

Roderick Campbell SNP Committee

31 Jan 2012

Criminal Cases (Punishment and Review) (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1

Yes. I refer to my entry in the register of members’ interests. I am a member of the Faculty of Advocates.

Roderick Campbell SNP Committee

31 Jan 2012

Criminal Cases (Punishment and Review) (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1

It is connected—I just wanted to add something. Neither the Law Society nor the Faculty of Advocates has commented specifically on the European dimension, but from my limited understanding the decision in the case of Thynne, Wilson and Gunnell v United Kingdom was about the re...

Roderick Campbell (North East Fife) (SNP) SNP Committee

21 Feb 2012

Criminal Cases (Punishment and Review) (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1

That will probably happen.I will put one point from page 3 of the Faculty of Advocates submission, which says:“if the Court has already, in fixing the notional determinate sentence, stripped out the element of public protection, the period required to satisfy the requirements ...

Roderick Campbell (North East Fife) (SNP) SNP Chamber

31 May 2012

Land Registration etc (Scotland) Bill: Stage 3

I refer to my registered interest as a member of the Faculty of Advocates.I have the disadvantage of not being a member of the Economy, Energy and Tourism Committee and not having heard the evidence, but I thought that the bill’s primary aim related to registering title and co...

Roderick Campbell (North East Fife) (SNP) SNP Chamber

29 Feb 2012

Human Trafficking

I welcome the opportunity to speak in the debate, and I declare a relevant interest as a member of Amnesty International and of the Faculty of Advocates.The insomniacs among us in the chamber may have seen last week’s Scottish questions from Westminster, which was broadcast on...

Roderick Campbell (North East Fife) (SNP) SNP Committee

11 Sep 2012

Scottish Civil Justice Council and Criminal Legal Assistance Bill: Stage 1

Good morning. I refer to my registered interest as a member of the Faculty of Advocates.I wonder whether Mr Harrower or anybody else on the panel is able to help with my question. I want to touch briefly on ABWOR and contributions. I understand that the maximum contribution is...

Roderick Campbell SNP Committee

04 Sep 2012

Scottish Civil Justice Council and Criminal Legal Assistance Bill: Stage 1

Sorry. For the record, I should have declared my interest as a member of the Faculty of Advocates.

Roderick Campbell (North East Fife) (SNP) SNP Chamber

29 Mar 2012

Tribunal System

I refer members to my registered interest as a member of the Faculty of Advocates.I welcome the opportunity to speak in the debate. I am a relative newcomer to the Parliament, so I was not a party to the debate on the future of tribunals in September 2010, in which reference w...

Roderick Campbell SNP Committee

18 Sep 2012

Defamation Bill

Just for clarity—contributions from Alistair Bonnington and Professor Reid notwithstanding—has the Scottish Government received any representations from the Law Society of Scotland or the Faculty of Advocates on the matter?

Roderick Campbell (North East Fife) (SNP) SNP Committee

20 Sep 2012

Interests

I declare an interest as a member of the Faculty of Advocates.

Roderick Campbell (North East Fife) (SNP) SNP Chamber

19 Apr 2012

Criminal Cases (Punishment and Review) (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1

I refer members to my entry in the register of interests as a member of the Faculty of Advocates. One of the advantages of the recess is that it enables one to catch up with reading: I mean not light reading like Ian Rankin, but heavy reading of the decision in Petch and Foye....

Roderick Campbell SNP Committee

13 Nov 2012

Scottish Civil Justice Council and Criminal Legal Assistance Bill: Stage 2

I ought to declare an interest: I am a member of the Faculty of Advocates.Although I have some sympathy with the line that there may be too many prescribed lawyers, I also think that we should bear it in mind that this may be the starting point for the rules council. After rul...

Roderick Campbell (North East Fife) (SNP) SNP Chamber

23 Oct 2012

Role of the Media in Criminal Trials

I refer to my register of interests as a member of the Faculty of Advocates.The televising of court proceedings has not been reviewed since the then Lord President issued guidance 20 years ago, so many will view Lord Gill’s announcement of a review as a measure that is coming ...

Roderick Campbell (North East Fife) (SNP) SNP Chamber

25 Sep 2012

Reforming Scots Criminal Law and Practice (Public Consultation)

I refer to my register of interests—I am a member of the Faculty of Advocates.As we all remember, in 2010 the cabinet secretary asked Lord Carloway to carry out a review of Scots criminal law and practice given the decision of the UK Supreme Court in HMA v Cadder and in the wa...

Roderick Campbell (North East Fife) (SNP) SNP Committee

14 May 2013

Victims and Witnesses (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1

Good morning, cabinet secretary. I have a number of slightly unrelated questions.First, do you have any thoughts on evidence from police representatives—the Association of Scottish Police Superintendents and the Scottish Police Federation—and written evidence from the Faculty ...

Roderick Campbell SNP Committee

14 May 2013

Victims and Witnesses (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1

I suspect so, but I do not want to speak for the Faculty of Advocates on that point.

Roderick Campbell SNP Committee

19 Jun 2013

Agricultural Rent Review Procedures (Review)

Before I pick up on a couple of points in Mr Thomas’s evidence, I refer to my entry in the register of interests as a member of the Faculty of Advocates.On the discussions with the Land Court, the thrust of Lord Gill’s review of civil justice, which forms part of the Governmen...

Roderick Campbell (North East Fife) (SNP) SNP Chamber

29 Jan 2013

Scottish Civil Justice Council and Criminal Legal Assistance Bill

I refer to my entry in the register of members’ interests as a member of the Faculty of Advocates.As Annabel Goldie has said, the bill has been controversial, but part 1 is less controversial. We have heard a lot today about the balance between lawyers and non-lawyers in the n...

Roderick Campbell SNP Committee

26 Mar 2013

Title Conditions (Scotland) Act 2003

Speaking with a vested interest as a member of the Faculty of Advocates, I think that we are straying into professional negligence matters on which we did not take full evidence. I do not think that we should have that in the report.

Roderick Campbell (North East Fife) (SNP) SNP Chamber

24 Apr 2013

Access to Justice

I refer members to my entry in the register of members’ interests as a member of the Faculty of Advocates.When times are tough, it is challenging to operate within the confines of a declining budget, as the Scottish Government must do given that its capital budget has been red...