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Child Protection: Shaken Baby Syndrome

My Lords, this report will be of widespread interest throughout the United Kingdom—in Scotland, as well as in the areas for which the noble and learned Lord the Attorney-General is responsible. Can he tell the House, in this United Kingdom Parliament, whether the Lord Advocate intends a review of the kind that the noble and learned Lord has just told us about in his Statement? Will the guidance for expert witnesses and pathologists that he intends issuing be issued in Scotland—or will similar guidance be issued? I hope that he can tell us what is happening in Scotland in that regard, because it will be a matter of great interest. It is a very serious matter and it applies to the whole United Kingdom.