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Criminal Justice Committee
Meeting date: 4 October 2023
Pauline McNeill
No, my interest has been covered.
Criminal Justice Committee
Meeting date: 4 October 2023
Pauline McNeill
For those cases where there has been a conviction and there is a civil case—a divorce case, for example, as you have said—are you talking about changing the procedure post-conviction?
Criminal Justice Committee
Meeting date: 4 October 2023
Pauline McNeill
Why not?
Criminal Justice Committee
Meeting date: 4 October 2023
Pauline McNeill
Are you talking about changing the procedure for those cases where there has been a conviction and there is a civil case?
Criminal Justice Committee
Meeting date: 4 October 2023
Pauline McNeill
What you are saying, Dr Hill, is quite concerning—that legislation that we have passed in the Parliament has not been implemented. Have you raised those concerns with the Scottish ministers?
Criminal Justice Committee
Meeting date: 4 October 2023
Pauline McNeill
Sometimes special measures for a child will have to be applied for. Is that not being done?
Criminal Justice Committee
Meeting date: 4 October 2023
Pauline McNeill
My questions are more for Kate Wallace and Ann Marie Cocozza, because their organisations support the proposal to have a commissioner. Kate Wallace, how would you see the interaction between Victim Support Scotland and a victims commissioner working?
Criminal Justice Committee
Meeting date: 4 October 2023
Pauline McNeill
What response did you get from them?
Criminal Justice Committee
Meeting date: 4 October 2023
Pauline McNeill
Thank you, convener. Dr Louise Hill said that a lot of the legislation that we had passed here had not been implemented. I was trying to establish what measures are currently being used in court.
Criminal Justice Committee
Meeting date: 4 October 2023
Pauline McNeill
Just to be clear, you have had cases in which special measures have been applied for but not implemented by the court.