Reading Time: 4 minutes A look at the background to Home Reports and some of the main enquiries SPICe receives about them.
Category: Justice
Until death parts us – the Scottish Government’s attempts to reform inheritance law
Reading Time: 4 minutes Civil law (sometimes simply referred to as ‘not criminal law’) is recognised as the geekier end of the Scottish Government’s Justice portfolio. It doesn’t grab
What would happen to citizens’ rights in a no deal Brexit?
Reading Time: 4 minutes EU free movement law gives EU citizens the right to live, work and study in other Member States. One of the big Brexit questions is
In the balance – 20 years of debt policy at the Scottish Parliament
Reading Time: 6 minutes As part of the programme to mark 20 years since the creation of the Scottish Parliament, SPICe will publish twenty “20 year” blog posts on
Prisoner voting – the Scottish Government consults on options for change
Reading Time: 4 minutes On 14 December 2018, the Scottish Government published a consultation with options for giving prisoners the right to vote in local government and Scottish Parliament
Brexit: European Court of Justice ruling on the Article 50 process
Reading Time: 4 minutes The Wightman case was brought by a cross-party group of Scottish politicians, backed by the Good Law Project. The petitioners wished to get legal certainty