your people. but you are the attorney here. so let s take another stab at your expertise. let s. what say you about this? how is this possible here? another class action suit.he you could shoot like here. here s the setup. a recidivist criminal commits assault against me. ifwould have been in jail he couldn t pay it bail, but couldn t. why can t i sue? you can y can t e?t. there s no citizen general standing, and you can t go afteritizen g the police for. for failure to act. but as a civil rights attorney, i have to say that there was an issue here. we had an issue where the cost of bail would disproportionately affect minorities and marginalized communities. and it s just not fair to people go into jail for the same crime. commone can afford to bail and e can t. however, you don t solve the problem by eliminating bail altogethercannot., because whato you do? you create new problems
both are about poverty, homophobia and injustice in late twentieth century glasgow, and both were inspired by douglas stuart s own troubled childhood growing up there. in his first broadcast interview about his new book, he s been talking to our arts correspondent, rebecca jones. glasgow in the 1970s a city with cramped council flats and rundown housing estates. unemployment was high, prospects were low, with the young all too often written off, highlighted by this news report of a visit to a youth centre by princess anne. voice over: unless things improve dramatically, - gary s chances of getting a job in a few years time are woefully swim. this is the world that douglas stuart grew up in. his mother, a single parent, was an alcoholic. the family was poor and relied on benefits. my mother was forever doing a type of mother s maths, where she was paying maybe the gas bill but not paying the electric bill, where she was feeding us but she couldn t pay for clothes. you know, whateve