Current status: Answered by Angela Constance on 16 May 2025
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will lay before Parliament the Fitness for Judicial Office Tribunal report relating to part-time sheriff John Halley.
A tribunal was constituted under section 21 of the Courts Reform (Scotland) Act 2014 to investigate and report on whether Part-time Sheriff Halley is unfit to hold judicial office. Under Section 24(2) of that Act, the First Minister must lay the report of the tribunal before the Scottish Parliament. The First Minister is currently making the necessary arrangements for the report to be laid before the Scottish Parliament within the next two weeks.