Nicola Sturgeon and Tory MSP Murdo Fraser PEOPLE have reacted furiously to a demand by Murdo Fraser for Nicola Sturgeon to say sorry to the people of Scotland for asking them to trust Alex Salmond. During the committee hearing today the Tory MSP asked the First Minister if she owed an apology to Scots. Sturgeon said: I trusted him and I am not going to apologise for the behaviour of somebody else. If I have things in my behaviour to apologise for, I will apologise. But I do not think it is reasonable to ask me to apologise for the behaviour, some of which he will deny of course, of Alex Salmond. I think the only person who should apologise for any behaviour on his part which he was asked to do on Friday and failed to do is Alex Salmond.
Baronness Helena Kennedy will lead the group (John Phillips/PA)
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Legal, gender and human-rights experts have been appointed to a working group to consider whether misogynistic behaviour should become an offence under Scots law.
The Scottish Government’s Hate Crime Bill would allow misogynistic harassment to become a standalone offence while also adding age prejudice to existing aggravating factors.
Human-rights lawyer Baroness Helena Kennedy has been asked to lead a taskforce that will examine the case for making misogyny an offence.
The Scottish Government has released details of a taskforce created to consider whether misogynistic behaviour should be a standalone offence under Scots law. Legal, gender and human-rights experts are among those appointed to the group, including human-rights lawyer Baroness Helena Kennedy, lawyer and former criminal investigator Susan Kem and Mona Rishmawi, head of the rule of law, equality and non-discrimination branch in the United Nations human rights commissioner s office. The Scottish Government’s Hate Crime Bill would allow misogynistic harassment to become a standalone offence, also adding age prejudice to existing aggravating factors. Baroness Helena Kennedy will lead the taskforce that will is due to have its first meeting later this month, with the aim of producing a report for the government on its findings from evidence sessions over the next 12 months.
Legal, gender and human-rights experts have been appointed to a working group to consider whether misogynistic behaviour should become an offence under Scots law.
The Scottish Government s Hate Crime Bill would allow misogynistic harassment to become a standalone offence while also adding age prejudice to existing aggravating factors.
Human-rights lawyer Baroness Helena Kennedy has been asked to lead a taskforce that will examine the case for making misogyny an offence.
Members of the group have now been appointed ahead of its first meeting later this month.
Human-rights lawyer Baroness Helena Kennedy has been asked to lead a taskforce that will examine the case for making misogyny an offence as part of the Scottish Government s Hate Crime Bill