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Smacking


Useful documents:

Scottish Parliament debate on Stage Three of the Criminal Justice (Scotland) Bill (19 February 2003)

Press Release 7th February 2003

Legal Opinion of Herbert Kerrigan QC

Scottish Parliament debate on Stage One of the Criminal Justice (Scotland) Bill (19 September 2002)

Response by The Christian Institute to the report by Justice 2 Committee on The Criminal Justice (Scotland) Bill

  Stage One Report of the Justice 2 Committee on the Criminal Justice (Scotland) Bill

Christian Institute submission to the Justice Committee

Justice Committees' call for responses

Original section of the Criminal Justice Bill
(Full version of original Bill)

Bill as amended at Stage 2: Section 43
(Whole Bill as amended at Stage 2)

Relevant section of the Bill's Explanatory Notes
(Full version)

Relevant section of the Bill's Policy Memorandum
(Full version)

Research into the effects of smacking

Responses to the Executive's initial consultation on the physical punishment of children

 



  Key Briefing:

New Briefing, Locking up Parents

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Justice Minister, Jim Wallace
Justice Minister, Jim Wallace, has changed the law on parental chastisement