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“Justice system faces ‘meltdown’ with criminal tag scheme in chaos” Sunday Herald
“Fears that electronic tagging scheme is in danger of ‘meltdown’” Herald
“Electronic tagging scheme in ‘chaos’” Evening Times
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CjScotland 20.10.05: Tagging as an alternative to remand in custody for serious offences
Since our launch in October 2003, this site has undergone a number of changes whilst keeping the news blog as the core service.
We are now overhauling both the appearance and structure of these pages. Changes will include, for example, a direct feed from the Scottish Executive Justice news page showing press release headlines as they appear; eliminating the largely redundant ‘comments’ option; pensioning off the ‘crumpled can of the national drink’ graphic and a new approach to the reporting of Parliamentary business.
Our aim is that the revised site will be easier to navigate and generally offer an enhanced service yet maintaining our policy of free access to all readers.
We will need to take the site off-line at some point on Sunday (according to current plans) and hope to have the new version running as soon as possible thereafter.
To mark the change we are publishing the full transcipt of a round table discussion run by Fellows Associates on Community Justice: the way forward in Scotland which took place in January as part of a series of six events taking place across the UK. Participants included Cathy Jamieson, David Strang, Bob Holman, and John McInnes. An abbreviated version was published by the New Statesman earlier this year.
Footnote: before it disappears for good and just for the record, the books in the ‘crumpled can’ logo were - Main Findings from the 1993 Scottish Crime Survey; Duff and Hutton (eds) (1999) Criminal Justice in Scotland. Ashgate; Braithwaite, J. (2002) Restorative Justice and Responsive Regulation. OUP; Devon, J. (1912). The Criminal and the Community. John Lane.
Posted by MM on Fri 6th May 2005 at 7:28 am“Pledge to tighten up Scots bail conditions” Press and Journal
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Brian Adam (Aberdeen North) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will review the basis on which bail is granted for those charged with murder or culpable homicide. (S2O-6549)
Parliament 4.5.05. Official report - Justice Questions
“Early-release plan ‘would not reduce reoffending’ ” Scotsman
“Reoffending targets under attack” BBC
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Justice 2 Committee
“Knife thugs face city centre ban in new blitz” Evening Times
Posted by MM on Wed 4th May 2005 at 8:28 am“How to curb our binge-drinking generation excess ” Scotsman. Article by Tom Woods, chairman of Action on Alcohol and Drugs in Edinburgh.
Posted by MM on Wed 4th May 2005 at 8:26 amGuidance on the management of English and Welsh Community Orders and Suspended Sentence Orders transferred to Scotland has been published by the Scottish Executive.
Cross Border Transfer of Orders Criminal Justice Act 2003
Posted by MM on Wed 4th May 2005 at 8:22 am“Early release scheme for prisoners singled out by Tories” Scotsman
Posted by MM on Wed 4th May 2005 at 8:15 amScottish Green Party
Scottish Labour Party
Scottish Liberal Democrats
Scottish National Party
Scottish Socialist Party
Scottish Tories
The Scottish Executive consultation on the Police Bill closes today.
Supporting Police, Protecting Communities: Proposals for Legislation
Posted by MM on Tue 3rd May 2005 at 9:50 am