Sheriff courts reopened on Monday with Covid safety measures in place (Andrew Milligan/PA)
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Lawyers groups have backed early resolutions for less serious criminal cases to help clear a three-year trial backlog which has built up during the pandemic.
Sheriff Court summary criminal cases, where a sheriff hears a case sitting alone without a jury, widely resumed in Scotland on Monday after being largely suspended for more than three months.
Early resolution for summary cases could ease sheriff court backlog, say lawyers
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CLAIM “Tories claim Nicola Sturgeon s four-day week plan for Scotland would cost taxpayers £3 billion A YEAR as part of an SNP election manifesto fantasy wish list ” – Daily Mail headline, April 17, 2021.
DOORSTEP ANSWER The SNP ARE spending £4 million – not £3bn – on a pilot experiment to see if a four-day week is feasible. Similar studies in England vindicate the idea. Opinion polls in the UK show a four-day week is very popular.
SNP’S FOUR-DAY WEEK EXPERIMENT Following the publication of the SNP Holyrood manifesto on April 16, Douglas Ross and the Scottish Tories claimed that the SNP planned to introduce a four-day working week in the public sector, and that this would cost the taxpayer an extra £3bn in taxes. The obvious first point is that the SNP manifesto does not propose the immediate introduction of a mandatory four-day working week after the May 6 Holyrood election or even after Scottish independence.
Nicola Sturgeon s aim of a four-day week in Scotland will cost the nation s taxpayers £3billion a year, it was claimed today.
The First Minister yesterday unveiled plans for a £10million pilot scheme if the SNP administration at Holyrood is re-elected in May, which will examine the feasibility of shortening the working week.
It was among a raft of expensive public-spending promises she outlined which included free dental care at the same time as no income tax increase for five years.
But today the Scottish Tories suggested that the cost of implementing a full four-day week across the whole public sector could hit £3billion annually.
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