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Scottish Parliament: Committees: Public Petitions: Official Reports: Meeting 4, 1999 - Scottish Corpus of Texts and ... (9289 words) |
 | Christine Grahame: It is open to the Transport and the Environment Committee to remit the petition to the Rural Affairs Committee, should it feel that additional views are necessary. |
| Christine Grahame: We need to know when the petition was received, when it was referred to the subject committee and when a report was made on it. |
| Christine Grahame: It is usually in the morning-sometimes it is in the afternoon. |
| Scottish Parliament: Committees: Justice 2: Official Reports: Meeting 7, 2001 - Scottish Corpus of Texts and Speech (19363 words) |
| Christine Grahame: I return to my point about parity of judgments, which would give the ICC clout at the same time as making the signatories to the statute feel secure that there is a level playing field for justice when individual national courts are trying cases. |
| Christine Grahame: I am mindful of that, but the perceptions that we are getting from the consumer—to use that awful expression—are that the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service is overstretched and that, as a result, cases are sometimes not prosecuted properly, with major cases, such as Chhokar and Collie, failing. |
| Christine Grahame: I still think that, even if a father does not apply for parental rights, it would be just in many circumstances to intimate to him the major change in his child's status. |
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