Parliament Workbench

Petition · PE01572 · Session 4

Occupational Disclosure in Trials and Sentencing

Closed Submitted 30 May 2015 Justice
Signatures
234
4 online signatures with a country
Comments
0
Considered
2 meetings
in the Official Report

What it asks

Calling on the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scottish Government to change the law of evidence so that in cases where a person is tried for a crime that has no connection to his/her occupation, his/her occupation should be dealt with by the courts as an irrelevant and non-aggravating factor.

What the petitioner did first

I have contacted my local MP's and the ones who replied advised me that I should contact my local MSP's, as MP's could not help me.
I then contacted all the current Scottish MSP's and most of them have replied back saying that they cannot interfere in any judical matter and are unable to help me. One of my local MSPs, Patricia Ferguson, sent me a link to this petition website.
I have contacted both Nicola Sturgeon MSP and Alex Salmond MSP via e-mail but they have both failed to respond back.

Where it was considered

Official Report
  1. 22 Sep 2015
    Public Petitions Committee
    New Petitions
    1 mention
  2. 12 Jan 2016
    Public Petitions Committee
    Continued Petitions
    1 mention

Signatures by country

4 online signatures
  1. Scotland3 75%
  2. United States1 25%

Comments

No public comments.