Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | 10/02/2008
... will play a major part of that. Prison will always be needed for serious and dangerous offenders.• Kenny MacAskill is the Scottish justice secretary.
Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | 10/02/2008
... will play a major part of that. Prison will always be needed for serious and dangerous offenders.• Kenny MacAskill is the Scottish justice secretary.
Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | 10/02/2008
What it will not do, though, is bind the Scottish Government to that approach.The vote is being tabled by the Scottish Conservatives as one of their opposition day debates. So, although the message will be clear, the long-term outcome will not be.What happens to the controversial proposal will now be down to Kenny MacAskill, the justice secretary.Mr MacAskill has shown he is willing...
News Scotsman (Free subscription) | 10/02/2008
What it will not do, though, is bind the Scottish Government to that approach.The vote is being tabled by the Scottish Conservatives as one of their opposition day debates. So, although the message will be clear, the long-term outcome will not be.What happens to the controversial proposal will now be down to Kenny MacAskill, the justice secretary.Mr MacAskill has shown he is willing...
Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | 18 hours ago
THE justice secretary, Kenny MacAskill, has taken a determined line on making Scotland confront its love affair with drinking. No-one denies the poor health and economic costs
Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | 17 hours ago
... So much for the deterrent effect. There is a growing public perception that the justice secretary, Kenny MacAskill, is soft on crime, and such events can only add to this view. The government has a duty to safeguard the public and not put them unnecessarily at risk.BOB MacDOUGALLOxhillKippen, StirlingshireDavid McPhillips (Letters, 3 October) is right that Scottish democratically...
Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | 18 hours ago
... raised the case with Alex Salmond, the First Minister, at Holyrood.And in March, justice secretary Kenny MacAskill offered a public apology to the schoolgirl for the "shortcomings within our prison system that have allowed this individual to put her through such pain".Mr MacAskill has also said that the recommendations contained in the Scottish Prison Service's review of the...
News Scotsman (Free subscription) | 18 hours ago
... raised the case with Alex Salmond, the First Minister, at Holyrood.And in March, justice secretary Kenny MacAskill offered a public apology to the schoolgirl for the "shortcomings within our prison system that have allowed this individual to put her through such pain".Mr MacAskill has also said that the recommendations contained in the Scottish Prison Service's review of the...
News Scotsman (Free subscription) | 18 hours ago
... that.Apparently, Scotland's only private prison has 48 spare places that are not being occupied.Kenny MacAskill (the justice secretary] needs to explain why this facility is being underused. Is it finance or sheer dogma against private prisons? We heard this week that a plan has been hatched for the emergency release of convicts, and yet a prison has nearly 50 spare places available....
Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | 18 hours ago
... that.Apparently, Scotland's only private prison has 48 spare places that are not being occupied.Kenny MacAskill (the justice secretary] needs to explain why this facility is being underused. Is it finance or sheer dogma against private prisons? We heard this week that a plan has been hatched for the emergency release of convicts, and yet a prison has nearly 50 spare places available....
Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | 10/03/2008
KENNY MacAskill, the justice secretary, seems determined to press on with his plan to raise the legal age limit for buying alcohol in shops from 18 to 21, despite a vote in H
News Scotsman (Free subscription) | yesterday
... discriminatory and not addressing the fundamental issue."A spokesman for Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill said: "The Tories' soft touch approach to tackling Scotland's booze problem is a big blunder. They are putting themselves on the wrong side of the argument in communities the length and breadth of Scotland, and trivialising a serious issue."
News Scotsman (Free subscription) | 10/04/2008
The Scottish Police Services Authority said the £16.2 million facility will be built at City Quay, replacing the lab at Tayside Police headquarters. Kenny MacAskill, the Scottish justice secretary, said it would help transform the provision of forensic services across Scotland. Two years ago, staff told The Scotsman that a chronic shortage of cutting-edge equipment meant police were having...
Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | 10/04/2008
The Scottish Police Services Authority said the £16.2 million facility will be built at City Quay, replacing the lab at Tayside Police headquarters. Kenny MacAskill, the Scottish justice secretary, said it would help transform the provision of forensic services across Scotland. Two years ago, staff told The Scotsman that a chronic shortage of cutting-edge equipment meant police were having...
News Scotsman (Free subscription) | 10/04/2008
The demand came in a report from Holyrood's justice committee, which said it was "disappointed" that Kenny MacAskill, the justice secretary, was leaving it to police boards to decide if forces were meeting their obligations.
