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22 Dec 2023, 7:45 am
Again, he is only worse than the norm by a matter of a few degrees. [read post]
30 Jul 2011, 7:23 am
However, Eileen Masterman’s resignation leaves questions over increasingly bitter exchanges between the Scottish Legal Complaints Commission & the Scottish Government’s Finance Chief, John Swinney, on a matter which I have previously reported where further documents obtained under Freedom of Information legislation revealed the SLCC had clearly mislead Mr Swinney over secret meetings between its officials including Ms Masterman and officials from Marsh, the… [read post]
3 Oct 2007, 4:13 pm
Harrah as well as those in attendance were happy with the matter being brought to the table. [read post]
29 Apr 2009, 2:45 pm
" Cabinet Secretary Swinney will be asked to speak to Holyrood committee on the merits of McKenzie Friends. [read post]
17 May 2012, 6:23 am
”The member of the public who asked the question relating to “relationships” between the former & current Chief Executives has indicated he is discussing the matter with journalists.He said : “If anyone is off sick these days and tries to claim benefits they are put through torturous checks to make sure they are not playing the system. [read post]
24 Sep 2017, 8:30 am
Does standing for the anthem mean these failures don’t matter? [read post]
4 Jun 2012, 2:37 am
” The campaigner who made the FOI request pointed out Ms Logan’s absence from the top post at SBC began coincidentally only a matter of days before headlines broke in local Borders newspapers of a scandal surrounding the departure late last summer of Scottish Borders Council’s former Chief Executive, David Hume, a subject which has also been reported by Scottish Law Reporter HERE and more recently HERE. [read post]
23 Jul 2022, 12:45 am
He need not have been so coy, Warren is clear authority that there would not have been, and this is presumably why matter was not pressed in Smith. [read post]
20 Feb 2012, 5:51 am
It is thought this spat between Masterman and Mr Swinney eventually led to the first Chief Executive's demise over 'ill health'. [read post]
19 Mar 2009, 11:45 am
" He pointed out that Mr Straw's refusal regarded a matter of national security, while LIT "is hardly in the same league". [read post]
30 Jul 2008, 5:56 pm
I recall as far back as January 2006, the then Justice Minister Cathy Jamieson was saying the Scottish Executive was looking into the matter of the Law Society's FOI exempt status, after queries from myself & others .. as can be seen from her following letter :Cathy Jamieson : Reviewing the FOI Act - we might do something ..Here is an article I wrote at the time on this issue : Law Society of Scotland & Freedom Of Information - End the Exemption Now.Now of course, with… [read post]
8 Apr 2009, 7:18 am
" The Treasury said the job losses were a matter for RBS and declined to comment. [read post]
30 Oct 2022, 12:54 am
Scottish COVID-19 Inquiry Deputy First Minister John Swinney has confirmed in a statement to the Scottish Parliament that Lord Brailsford will replace Lady Poole as Chair of the Scottish COVID-19 Inquiry. [read post]
17 Aug 2023, 7:51 am
Such allegations have been periodically raised in the Scottish Parliament, including by John Swinney MSP who rose to become deputy first minister. [read post]
22 Jan 2011, 9:39 am
Sadly not a single MSP or MP agreed to back that request, and in the case of John Swinney, the Scottish Government Finance Minister, he has not even acknowledged receipt of my report even though I have submitted it to him twice since 27 October 2010. [read post]
30 May 2022, 4:10 pm
That, though, was a matter of presentation, not substance. [read post]
16 Jul 2012, 6:37 am
Yet if their plans and decisions hatched in private are sound and fair then why do they have to be forced to eventually disclose so many matters of public interest? [read post]
4 Mar 2009, 5:39 am
Kenneth Pritchard wrote to legal firm Skene Edwards advising them to withdraw from acting in the case, and that letter was subsequently discussed in the Scottish Parliament debate chamber by Cabinet Secretary for Business John Swinney. [read post]
17 Mar 2009, 12:08 pm
" The legal profession's ‘point of view' on how the Master Insurance Policy actually operates, is as you know, slightly askew from the truth of the matter, which I have reported previously in articles such as the following : Law Society boss Mill lied to Swinney, Parliament as secret memos reveal policy of intervention & obstruction on claims, complaints. [read post]
30 Jul 2016, 2:11 pm
Eileen Munro, writing about the Every Child Matters agenda in England, once observed: “In policy debates, there seems to be an assumption that there is some objective measure of what is in a child’s best interests and some objective standards of good parenting applicable in all social circumstances. [read post]
