Fatal Accident Inquiries (Delays)

Part of Portfolio Question Time – in the Scottish Parliament am ar 5 Mehefin 2024.

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What faith can bereaved families have in the justice system when they have to wait, in some cases for eight years, before an FAI is held and are fobbed off with explanations that appear to have come from “The Bumper Book of Excuses”? Will the Solicitor General or the Lord Advocate therefore come before Parliament and give a full statement so that Parliament as a whole can scrutinise this failure of the current system?