We will use our findings to push for urgent action on outstanding recommendations where progress is too slow. We will share this report with a range of bodies to allow progress to be assessed and tracked over time.
This includes:
The Criminal Justice Committee of the Scottish Parliament
Audit Scotland
The European Committee on the Prevention of Torture
The Human Rights Committee
The UN Special Rapporteur on Torture
Together with the National Preventive Mechanism, we will also track progress
The SHRC also has the power to intervene in legal proceedings. Interventions are a way of raising particular points of law or fact which do not feature in the arguments advanced by the parties to the proceedings, but which would assist the court in its determination of the law. The SHRC has a specific intervention power under the UNCRC Act, as well as a wider intervention power in respect of other human rights.
If you want to notify us about legal proceedings which raise a compatibility question or compatibility issue under the UNCRC Act or notify us of an issue where the SHRC may wish to consider using its other legal powers please email legal@scottishhumanrights.com.
Please note that that the law governing the SHRC’s work prohibits us from providing advice or assistance on individual legal claims unless of the SHRC’s powers under the UNCRC Act. Section 6 of the Scottish Commission for Human Rights
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