Wednesday, February 02, 2005

Crown trespass law plan abandoned / BBC, 1 Feb 2005

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/4226449.stm
The Scottish trespass law would have covered royal sites
Ministers have scrapped plans to create a specific offence of royal trespass in Scotland in the face of opposition from some MSPs.
The Scottish Executive has backed down on its proposal to bring in a law of trespass covering Crown land.

Ministers had said that the law was needed to coincide with Westminster's Serious and Organised Crime Bill.

The SNP and police chiefs argued that Scots law was already sufficient to deal with intruders on such sites.