MSPs may face being recalled to Holyrood during the summer break to deal with legislation to exonerate Scots wrongly convicted in the Post Office…
during the summer break to deal with legislation to exonerate Scots wrongly convicted in the Post Office Horizon scandal, Humza Yousaf has said.
Audrey Nicoll, convener of Holyrood’s Criminal Justice Committee, had asked the First Minister if there will be enough time in the process for “robust” scrutiny of the Scottish bill – and crucially for “those affected by the scandal to have their voices heard”. Appearing before the group of Holyrood’s committee conveners on Wednesday, Yousaf said: “The trouble with the timetabling of all of this is that the UK bill might well not conclude until the end of July.
He also cautioned against the Scottish legislation mirroring the UK Government’s Post Office Offences Bill too closely – saying that could run the risk of giving some people whose convictions are sound access to hundreds of thousands of pounds in compensation.
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