A COMMITTEE which approved a change in the law rushed through last week to protect police powers spent just half an hour discussing the amendment and did not see it in the context of the original legislation.

THE way new legislation is scrutinised needs to be improved, a lawyer has said.

THE Policy Council has poured cold water on Jersey’s claim that UK government cutbacks are slowing up laws being passed by the Privy Council.

ANIMAL welfare legislation could be ready within the next three months, HM Procureur has said.

A DELEGATION of States members is to question the Law Officers about why so few cases of alleged child abuse go before the courts.

ANYONE wading through the 258 pages of the first annual review of the States Strategic Plan will be struck by the positive language adopted in the Billet d’Etat expressing how corporate governance is to be improved, how government is to become more joined-up and how the Assembly will act more corporately.

THE Policy Council will from next year set Law Officers quarterly targets for drafting legislation.

WHEN the then latest revisions to Guernsey’s archaic and labyrinthine anti-Sunday trading regulations were going through the States in 2002, this newspaper had no hesitation in branding it the dog’s breakfast law.

TOUGHER sentences for drivers who use their mobile phone at the wheel are being welcomed by the Home minister.

THE UK Government yesterday denied it had ever deliberately delayed processing legislation from Guernsey or the other Crown Dependencies.