How Serious is the Government About Women’s Enterprise?
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How Serious is the Government About Women’s Enterprise?
May 6, 2012 – 8:37 pm | One Comment

So what has happened to the great aspiration of the government to have women setting up businesses at the same rate as men? The recent report released in the run up to the Mayoral elections by the Fawcett Society looked at equality between women and men in London and found women experience a full-time pay [...]

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Time for a safer, fairer Scotland
May 2, 2011 – 2:36 am | No Comment
Time for a safer, fairer Scotland

Caroline Johnstone is an ex JP/lay magistrate,  who resigned over knife crime. Caroline now standing as Independent MSP for Rutherglen and on the Glasgow list for a fairer safer Scotland. We have featured her story over the past few months: Dear Mr Cameron … Hearts Matter … and are pleased to present her manifesto. http://filesocial.com/a6y7mv

Dear Mr Cameron – the problem with society is us.
March 31, 2011 – 11:25 am | No Comment
Dear Mr Cameron – the problem with society is us.

Background: Up until two weeks ago I was a lay magistrate, a Justice of the Peace. I’d applied for the role in a new open process because I wanted to make a difference to my community. Becoming increasingly frustrated I realised I could make a greater difference outside the judicial system; and it was the [...]

Hearts Matter
March 7, 2011 – 4:20 am | No Comment
Hearts Matter

In 2008, I saw an advert in the Glasgow Herald  asking for ordinary people to apply to be a Justice of the Peace/lay magistrate, and as this was my year of “ saying YES” (now that my children were grown up and it was time to move out of my comfort zone), after careful consideration, [...]