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Legislation / Legal
ScotGov: The Scottish Government will take an early legislative opportunity to repeal the law which exempts spouses from giving evidence against their partner. Currently a husband, wife or civil partner can only be required to give evidence against their other half if they are the victim of an offence by their partner.
On June 27, 2006, the previous Scottish Executive issued a short consultation paper on the issue of spousal compellability. The consultation ended on 19 September 2006 and 15 responses were received. Following the consultation on possible changes to the law, the Scottish Government has decided to repeal Section 264 of the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995 and Section 130 of the Civil Partnership Act 2004.
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