THE Scottish legal fraternity's instinct for the deployment of questionable reasoning was forensically exposed by the Supreme Court in the context of the Cadder and Fraser appeals from the decisions of the Appeal Court in Edinburgh.
THE Scottish legal fraternity's instinct for the deployment of questionable reasoning was forensically exposed by the Supreme Court in the context of the Cadder and Fraser appeals from the decisions of the Appeal Court in Edinburgh.
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Your report suggests that the taste for deficient reasoning reflected in those cases has not diminished ("Holyrood is hit by new Supreme Court ruling", The Herald, November 29).
You reveal that Labour and SNP adminstrations (post-devolution) "failed to protect the rights of hundreds of mental health patients to appeal against the level of security imposed on them". The Supreme Court has condemned the failure since 2006 to pass the necessary laws that would allow patients in non-state hospitals to lodge an appeal against their condition of detention.
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Supreme Court again highlights Scottish failings
THE Scottish legal fraternity's instinct for the deployment of questionable reasoning was forensically exposed by the Supreme Court in the context of the Cadder and Fraser appeals from the decisions of the Appeal Court in Edinburgh.
Your report suggests that the taste for deficient reasoning reflected in those cases has not diminished ("Holyrood is hit by new Supreme Court ruling", The Herald, November 29).
You reveal that Labour and SNP adminstrations (post-devolution) "failed to protect the rights of hundreds of mental health patients to appeal against the level of security imposed on them". The Supreme Court has condemned the failure since 2006 to pass the necessary laws that would allow patients in non-state hospitals to lodge an appeal against their condition of detention.
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