Parliamentary Material
Holyrood and Westminster proceedings relevant to procedural fairness
The parliamentary material listed on this page covers the most significant debates, committee proceedings and official records bearing on the issues examined by this site.
The parliamentary record of Stage 2 proceedings contains the debates over the use of the word victim before conviction, the presumption of innocence, and the compatibility of various provisions with fair trial rights. The internal Scottish Government material obtained under FOI and described in the FOI Disclosures page provides context for understanding what was known internally during those proceedings.
The Criminal Justice Committee scrutinises justice legislation and holds the justice system to account. Its proceedings, including evidence sessions with ministers, officials and external witnesses, are publicly available and provide a record of how the issues examined on this site have been debated in the parliamentary context.
A number of public petitions relating to sections 274 and 275 and the fairness of sexual offence trials in Scotland have been considered by the Public Petitions Committee. The proceedings document the public and parliamentary debate about these provisions over time.
Citizen Participation and Public Petitions Committee — www.parliament.scot
Next in this section
External Reports and Publications
Independent reports and publications cited by the site.
Pages in this section
Official Report
The Official Report of the Scottish Parliament is the verbatim record of all debates and committee proceedings. It is publicly searchable at www.parliament.scot/chamber-and-committees/official-report