Author: Kath Murray • Page 11
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The ‘ordinary meaning’ of words: a reassurance that does not reassure (November 2020)
This blog may be downloaded as a briefing here 1. Background Discussing the Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Bill at the Justice Committee on 24 November, the Cabinet Secretary...
30th May 2021
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Stage 1 questions for the Cabinet Secretary for Justice (October 2020)
This blog can be downloaded as a briefing here Background The Scottish Parliament’s Justice Committee began consideration of the Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Bill at Stage 1 on...
30th May 2021
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The Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Bill: Views from Scottish policing (October 2020)
This briefing looks at some of the issues raised in the submissions from Police Scotland, Association of Scottish Police Superintendents (ASPS) and the Scottish Police Federation, namely those organisations who will be tasked...
30th May 2021
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MBM submission to the Justice Committee: Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Bill (July 2020)
The Hate Crime and Public Order Bill is intended to provide for the modernising, consolidating and extending of hate crime legislation in Scotland. Since publication in April 2020, the draft Bill...
30th May 2021
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Evidence to the Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee (24 August 2020)
Submission by MurrayBlackburnMackenzie Introduction We welcome the opportunity to submit evidence to the Committee and apologise for not having identified the need to do so sooner. The annex provides...
30th May 2021
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Letter to Scotland’s Chief Statistician on the Working group on sex and gender identity in data (20 January 2020)
20 January 2020 Dear Roger, Thank you for meeting us last week to discuss our views on sex and gender data, and your plans for making recommendations for Ministers....
30th May 2021
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Letter to the Culture, Tourism, Europe and External Affairs Committee: MBM position on data collection (11 September 2019)
Letter to the Culture, Tourism, Europe and External Affairs Committee (CTEEA) explaining our position on data collection, in response to a letter co-signed by a number of LGBT organisations...
30th May 2021
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Letter to the CTEEA Committee: key issues on the census sex question (11 September 2019)
Letter to CTEEA Committee, setting out key issues and concerns about the sex question in Scotland's census.
30th May 2021
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Letter to the Culture, Tourism, Europe and External Affairs Committee: EU legislation on the census (7 October 2019)
Our letter to the Culture, Tourism, Europe and External Affairs Committee: EU legislation on EU legistlation and the census. 7 October 2019 Dear Committee Members, We would like to...
30th May 2021
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MBM response to the Chief Statistician’s Working Group on sex and gender identity data
In December 2020 the Scottish Government published the Chief Statistician’s draft guidance on the collection of data on sex and gender for public bodies. The draft guidance advises that...
28th May 2021