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  Scottish Parliament Opening Competition - Cathy Jamieson - Labour & Co-op MSP Carrick Cumnock and Doon Valley   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Cathy Jamieson MSP congratulates Alex Kelly on successfully being chosen by the judges to attend the opening of the new Scottish Parliament.
Cathy Jamieson MSP, Sandra Osborne MP and Provosts McKenzie and Darnbrough congratulate Jimmy Boyd on his nomination and thank him for his many years of service to the people of Cumnock.
Cathy Jamieson MSP, Sandra Osborne MP and Provosts McKenzie and Darnbrough congratulate Janette Leitch of the Cumncok Osteoporosis Group on her nomination.
www.cathyjamieson.labour.co.uk /ViewPage.cfm?Page=11872   (386 words)

  
 Cathy Jamieson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Cathy Jamieson, (Born 3 November 1956) is a Labour Member of the Scottish Parliament and has been the representative for Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley since 1999.
She was also a member of the Edinburgh inquiry into abuse in residential care and served on the management and advisory committees of several childcare agencies.
Ms Jamieson is married and has one son.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cathy_Jamieson   (225 words)

  
 NameTraq | Last Name: Jamieson
Cathy Jamieson, Scotland’s justice minister, said she supported the principles underlying a number of proposals in the consultation paper, including the...
Cathy Jamieson, the justice minister, said the plans announced by the Home Office, mainly for England and Wales, would be scrutinised to see if they could be...
Alan Jamieson was surprisingly relaxed on the deck of his boat yesterday as he headed out of the harbour at Oban, on the west coast of Scotland, towards his...
www.nametraq.com /genealogy_jan04/J/Jamieson.shtml   (2629 words)

  
 Carrick, Cumnock & Doon Valley   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Cathy Jamieson is a member of Labour’s Scottish and National Executive Committees.
Cathy Jamieson is a member of the Transport and General Workers Union.
Cathy Jamieson is Deputy Leader of Labour in the Scottish Parliament and served as Minister for Education and Young People from November 2001.
www.scottishlabour.org.uk /carrickcumnockanddoonvalley1   (214 words)

  
 The Scotsman - Top Stories - McConnell knew of bid to blackmail Jamieson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
JACK McConnell appointed Cathy Jamieson as his justice minister in the full knowledge that her nephew, a convicted killer, had tried to flmail her.
Ms Jamieson unexpectedly found herself at the centre of attention late on Tuesday night when Hyslop suddenly went public with claims that his aunt, the justice minister, had helped him out by giving him £100 when he was on the run from the police in 1999.
Ms Jamieson said yesterday she agreed to hand over £100 but stressed that the money was for Hyslop’s new baby and she was adamant she did not know he was on the run.
thescotsman.scotsman.com /index.cfm?id=208292005   (928 words)

  
 News Story   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Justice minister Cathy Jamieson is under fire tonight after a crucial deadline on a legal appeal was missed.
Justice Minister Cathy Jamieson in the spotlight today with Grampian's top police officer but it's a different kind of brush with the law that has landed her in her latest crisis.
Cathy Jamieson is the elected politician and I think she has to face the wrap."
northtonight.grampiantv.co.uk /content?page=s1_1_1&newsid=4005&newsType=   (336 words)

  
 Scotland on Sunday - Top Stories - Education Minister: I'm not in charge of schools   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Cathy Jamieson, who was appointed by the First Minister, Jack McConnell, five days ago, has admitted that her Scottish Liberal Democrat deputy is "best placed" to be in direct charge of the nation’s classrooms while she concentrates on "children in general".
He said: "Cathy Jamieson is being disingenuous and naive and this suggests a complete lack of confidence in her ability to do the job.
Jamieson claimed the move would ensure continuity because Stephen had served as junior education minister for a year and teachers would not be forced to deal with a new minister.
scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com /index.cfm?id=1594822001   (795 words)

  
 Will Cathy Jamieson resign as justice minister? ‘As long as I’ve got the confidence of the First Minister, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Jamieson, a 47-year-old art graduate turned children’s social worker, says her politically bruising experience since the first escort escape at Easter has made her more determined to press ahead.
Jamieson, in turn, now says she is relying on Cameron to give her assurances before she will agree the Reliance contract can be rolled out beyond Glasgow and Lanarkshire.
Jamieson concedes all is not well with the post-devolution governance of quangos and arm’s-length agencies: “There’s room for improvement.
www.sundayherald.com /43107   (1693 words)

  
 Cathy calls in police over bank mystery - Evening Times   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
JUSTICE Minister Cathy Jamieson has called in the police after an attempt was made to get details of her bank account.
Ms Jamieson received a call from someone claiming to be from the Scottish Parliament's payroll office on Monday claiming she was due cash and they needed details of where it should be paid.
The news follows claims that Ms Jamieson was the victim of a flmail bid by her nephew.
www.eveningtimes.co.uk /news/5035884.shtml   (607 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Scotland | Jamieson wins top-level support
Ms Jamieson said she had taken "a hands-on attitude" after James McCormick was wrongly freed.
In an interview with BBC Newsnight Scotland, Ms Jamieson she expected those responsible for monitoring the contract to be doing that.
"Cathy Jamieson sounds very much as if she is trying to shut the stable door after the horse - or in this case the prisoner - has bolted.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/scotland/3624905.stm   (554 words)

  
 CATHY JAMIESON - for news on Cathy Jamieson Click Here   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The first minister says he has "total support" for Cathy Jamieson after she denied helping her nephew evade the law.
Cathy Jamieson promises a "new approach" to tackling violent crime after a study said police were failing to meet targets.
Cathy Jamieson believes an integrated criminal justice system can halt the rise in reoffending across Scotland.
www.newsbyname.co.uk /C/Cathy-Jamieson.php   (182 words)

  
 Home - Cathy Jamieson - Labour & Co-op MSP Carrick Cumnock and Doon Valley
Cathy Jamieson Labour & Co-op MSP Carrick Cumnock and Doon Valley
Cathy Jamieson MSP meets with members of BRICC on her recent visit to Ballantrae.
Cathy Jamieson MSP joins with Chris Burke of Rangers, John Kennedy of Celtic and Strathclyde Police to launch the new anti-sectarianism wristband.
www.cathyjamieson.labour.co.uk   (2077 words)

  
 News Story   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
She insists she is on top of the situation, despite the private security firm's admission that it was largely to blame for yesterday's blunder in which a prisoner was wrongly freed from a court in Motherwell.
Cathy Jamieson left cabinet this morning with calls yet again for her to resign after another prisoner was mistakenly freed from a court in Motherwell.
Either way, Cathy Jamieson is in charge of both and could be running out of time to sort out this problem.
scotlandtoday.scottishtv.co.uk /content/default.asp?page=s1_1_1&newsid=3554   (419 words)

  
 Edinburgh Evening News - Politics - Renewed demands for Jamieson to quit
OPPOSITION parties have demanded Scottish Justice Minister Cathy Jamieson quit after she said a private security firm "seriously underestimated" the challenge of taking over responsibility for prisoner escort duties at some courts.
Ms Jamieson told MSPs the mistaken release from Hamilton Sheriff Court of teenage killer James McCormick was "inexcusable" but said improvements were under way.
And Ms Jamieson said she had asked police chiefs to look into the wider issues thrown up by the Reliance debacle, including communication within the justice system over warrants outstanding.
edinburghnews.scotsman.com /politics.cfm?id=453192004   (286 words)

  
 Edinburgh Evening News - Politics - Jamieson says cash for killer nephew was for his baby   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
JUSTICE Minister Cathy Jamieson today "vehemently" denied giving £100 to a nephew in order to help him hide from police.
Ms Jamieson also said Hyslop, who was later jailed for manslaughter, tried to flmail her while he was in jail by threatening to tell the story of his criminal career.
It was reported today that Ms Jamieson sent money to her nephew in July 1999 which he used to help him hide from police after killing a grandmother in a street robbery.
edinburghnews.scotsman.com /politics.cfm?id=205422005   (355 words)

  
 Carrick, Cumnock & Doon Valley   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
A left winger, Ms Jamieson does not see eye to eye with the right-wing Blairite clones of the Network organisation and was expected to be a thorn in the side of the New Labourites.
Cathy Jamieson was born in 1956 in Kilmarnock and educated at James Hamilton Academy.
Cathy Jamieson worked as a social worker for Strathclyde Regional Council and became a member of the Labour NEC in 1998.
www.alba.org.uk /scot03constit/s02.html   (1651 words)

  
 Maybole Historical Society’s Local and Family History Centre
Cathy Jamieson MSP cuts a ribbon, held by Helen McAdam, to open the new history centre.
Cathy Jamieson officially opened the centre by cutting a ribbon, and the MSP’s name is first in the visitors’ book.
Cathie Jamieson MSP has agreed to perform the official opening of the Centre in the near future.
www.maybole.org /community/organisations/historical/centre.htm   (532 words)

  
 The Scotsman - Scotland - Jamieson shrugs off fury over court row
Yesterday, Ms Jamieson gave a statement to the Scottish Parliament outlining the latest developments in the saga and to explain her role.
In a robust defence of the action she has taken so far, Ms Jamieson refused to resign and, while calling the release of McCormick inexcusable, she said everything possible had been done in the run-up to the contract being awarded to ensure a smooth hand-over.
Ms Jamieson said she expected those improvements to continue over the coming weeks and confirmed that rolling out the contract to its second phase would be put on hold until clear progress was identified.
thescotsman.scotsman.com /scotland.cfm?id=451712004   (728 words)

  
 News Story   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Justice Minister Cathy Jamieson, who has been in the dock since Reliance Security mistakenly released a convicted killer, has been to court herself to see the private security firm in action.
Today Cathy Jamieson was on hand to see for herself how far forward the firm has come.
Cathy Jamieson said: "There probably could have been different ways of doing things but the important thing as I saw it was to get those things resolved.
scotlandtoday.scottishtv.co.uk /content?page=s1_1_1&newsid=3329   (400 words)

  
 COMMENTS
Cathy Jamieson paid unannounced visits to courts and jails yesterday to check on the prison escort chaos.The Justice Minister said she was 'banging heads together' to solve problems in the system being run by private operator Reliance.
"Justice minister urged to release details of court security contract: Under fire Justice minister Cathy Jamieson MSP is being urged to come clean and publish details of the multi-million pounds private security contract that has seen chaos in Scotland's courts and the accidental release of a convicted killer.
SNP justice spokeswoman Nicola Sturgeon also called on Jamieson to publish the findings of an internal inquiry into how convicted killer James McCormick walked free from a court.
www.cjscotland.org.uk /comments.php?id=740_0_1_0_C1   (563 words)

  
 Courier News Story
Mr Dunion has ruled that this period began when Justice Minister Cathy Jamieson made her statement to parliament on April 21 giving her until May 21 to publish the contract.
The commissioner said that should the information not be forthcoming he will launch a full investigation and require the contract and all supporting documentation be released to him.
“Cathy Jamieson has been desperately stalling on the contract, making it plain that she fears that it will prove to be the final chapter in her ministerial career,” said Ms Sturgeon.
www.thecourier.co.uk /output/2004/05/11/newsstory5904062t0.asp   (332 words)

  
 Scotsman.com Business - Bill Jamieson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
BILL JAMIESON I WAS in Crieff the other week and nearly bought a pulpit.
BILL JAMIESON This isn't a parliament: this is a public-sector protection agency.
BILL JAMIESON VISITING this week's Conservative Party conference in Blackpool was to witness the...
business.scotsman.com /topics.cfm?tid=264   (404 words)

  
 Security firm's extended role is put on hold - Evening Times   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
But Ms Jamieson told MSPs the extension will not take place "unless and until the Scottish Prison Service is satisfied Reliance is ready to deliver a satisfactory service day in, day out".
Ms Jamieson was forced to cancel a planned visit to the Scottish Police Federation's annual conference in Peebles today to make the statement.
This afternoon, Ms Jamieson said it was clear there was an urgent need to examine the effectiveness of communication within the justice system in relation to outstanding warrants.
www.eveningtimes.co.uk /print/news/5025772.shtml   (481 words)

  
 Scottish Conservatives - BUCK STOPS WITH JAMIESON ON PRISONER ESCORTING SAYS GOLDIE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
"Cathy Jamieson has made a right royal mess of prisoner escorting over the last few months, typified by the escape of a murderer who remained on the run for weeks.
Ultimately, whether escorting is conducted by the police or by Reliance, Cathy Jamieson is politically accountable to the people.
"However, it is Cathy Jamieson who must ensure that the public regains confidence in the escorting of prisoners and in the justice system as a whole.
www.scottishtories.org.uk /pressrelease.asp?ID=99992893   (220 words)

  
 McConnell angry at fire row
Members of the Scottish Executive are bound by the principle of "collective responsibility", meaning that once the ministers agree a position, each member must follow that line in public.
During the interviews, Ms Jamieson said it was important not to apportion blame and vital "to get things moving".
Scottish Conservative leader David McLetchie said Ms Jamieson was undermining the government's efforts to end the strike.
www.fire.org.uk /BBC_News/News2002/November/bbc291102j.htm   (546 words)

  
 Edinburgh Evening News - Opinion - Jamieson needs to follow her natural instincts
It can be argued that ministers ought to accept responsibility for whatever goes wrong "on their watch" whether they had a direct hand in it or not.
And many people in legal circles, who deal with Ms Jamieson on a regular basis, say the resignation calls are misplaced.
Ms Jamieson became Labour’s deputy leader under Henry McLeish because of her strong links with the grassroots, but it was Jack McConnell who made her a minister in 2001 and gave her a key role in negotiating the new coalition deal with the Liberal Democrats after last year’s election.
edinburghnews.scotsman.com /opinion.cfm?id=660622004   (650 words)

  
 Guild of Security (UK) Ltd - Prison Escort firm put on Probation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The move by Cathy Jamieson came after the mistaken release of murderer James McCormick from a court last week.
Speaking after Monday's meeting at Barlinnie Prison, Ms Jamieson said the roll-out across Scotland of the new prison escorting arrangements is dependent on assurances from the Scottish Prison Service (SPS) that problems in the first phase have been addressed.
Ms Jamieson said: "There will be additional trained staff from Reliance on hand this week to handle the expected workload, and more involvement of senior Reliance management to ensure more effective operation of the contract.
www.guildofsecurity.co.uk /modules.php?name=News&file=print&sid=77   (515 words)

  
 Courier News Story
UNDER FIRE Justice Minister Cathy Jamieson yesterday tried to shift the blame for the blunder over slopping out on to a cabinet colleague.
Ms Jamieson, who is already under intense pressure over the Reliance accidental release of prisoners fiasco, said an investigation would be held in to why the appeal had not been lodged in time, but pointed the finger at her colleague Colin Boyd, the Lord Advocate.
SNP justice spokesman Nicola Sturgeon pointed out that it was Ms Jamieson, and not the Lord Advocate, who used a Parliamentary answer to announce the Executive’s decision to appeal.
www.thecourier.co.uk /output/2004/06/08/newsstory5998734t0.asp   (638 words)

  
 Minister admits the war on neds is being lost - Evening Times   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Ms Jamieson said a new report - detailing for the first time a "robust, accurate and reliable" figure - showed there was a baseline of 1201 persistent troublemakers in Scotland.
Mr Jamieson warned the agencies she wanted to see results coming through in the next few months.
Ms Jamieson set out an Executive commitment to reduce the number of reoffenders by 10% by 2006 and another 10% by 2008.
www.eveningtimes.co.uk /hi/news/5032214.html   (483 words)

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