Reading Time: 4 minutes This post looks at the need to balance the use of biometrics in tackling crime whilst also protecting the privacy and human rights of individuals.
Category: Justice
Brexit and devolved competition powers
Reading Time: 3 minutes A look at how Brexit might affect the Scottish Government’s newly devolved competition powers.
Home Reports – what are they and what might change?
Reading Time: 4 minutes A look at the background to Home Reports and some of the main enquiries SPICe receives about them.
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