Reading Time: 32 minutesThis extended blogpost provides briefing for MSPs and other interested parties ahead of parliamentary consideration of the Coronavirus (Scotland) Bill on 1 April 2020.
Category: Justice
Conveyancing and the Coronavirus (COVID-19)
Reading Time: 5 minutesDue to the emergency legislation in the Scottish Parliament this week, this blog post looks at the sale and purchase of property in Scotland. Here
Coronavirus (COVID-19) – employment rights
Reading Time: 5 minutesBlog looking at work rights in the coronavirus crisis, including furlough, redundancy and sick pay.
SPICe FAQs: young people, alcohol and the law
Reading Time: 4 minutesA blog drawing together answers to questions SPICe has been asked about young people, alcohol and the law.
Twenty years of family law in the Scottish Parliament
Reading Time: 8 minutesA look at 20 years of family law in the Scottish Parliament.
Guest blog: How much do you know about FOI?
Reading Time: 3 minutesThis guest blog from Daren Fitzhenry, the Scottish Information Commissioner, sets out some background information on Freedom of Information (FOI) and how to find out more.
SPICe FAQ – On the road again
Reading Time: 4 minutesLooks at the introduction of speed awareness courses in Scotland.
Twenty Years of Imprisonment
Reading Time: 12 minutesAs part of the programme to mark 20 years of the Scottish Parliament, this blog looks at the use of imprisonment since devolution.
Moving on: is Serco’s lock-changing policy legal?
Reading Time: 4 minutesThis blog looks at a recent Court of Session case on whether it is legal to change the locks of asylum seekers when their asylum claims are refused
Parliament has not been prorogued – the Supreme Court judgment
Reading Time: 4 minutesThis blog looks at the reasons for the UK Supreme Court deciding that the prorogation of the UK Parliament was “unlawful, null and of no effect”.