>Regulations laid before the Scottish Parliament will bring into force provisions on tenancies that were part of a domestic abuse law passed nearly five years ago.
5 years? Feels a bit long
Upstairs-Passenger28 on
As long as its just the abuser not the victim as well
Intrepid_Solution194 on
It concerns me that the article only says people ‘believed to domestic abusers’. Believed by who? To what standard?
If it’s someone convicted of domestic abuse then that’s a good standard. If it’s someone has made an accusation so now we will cancel your tenancy and make you homeless then that’s a really poor standard that’s open to its own abuses.
Thandoscovia on
> believed to be abusers
Given that this is going to enforce homelessness, and is likely to have a massively disproportionate impact on men, I’m interested to see how this not a form of indirect discrimination. We remember, of course, that there is a prohibition on declining renters for being on benefits for exactly that reason – indirect discrimination
I’m also interested to see what the standard is for belief – remembering the under Scots law, a person is considered innocent until proven guilty
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>Regulations laid before the Scottish Parliament will bring into force provisions on tenancies that were part of a domestic abuse law passed nearly five years ago.
5 years? Feels a bit long
As long as its just the abuser not the victim as well
It concerns me that the article only says people ‘believed to domestic abusers’. Believed by who? To what standard?
If it’s someone convicted of domestic abuse then that’s a good standard. If it’s someone has made an accusation so now we will cancel your tenancy and make you homeless then that’s a really poor standard that’s open to its own abuses.
> believed to be abusers
Given that this is going to enforce homelessness, and is likely to have a massively disproportionate impact on men, I’m interested to see how this not a form of indirect discrimination. We remember, of course, that there is a prohibition on declining renters for being on benefits for exactly that reason – indirect discrimination
I’m also interested to see what the standard is for belief – remembering the under Scots law, a person is considered innocent until proven guilty