I know there was an inquiry underway in to the incident you are referring to, which had to be halted, due to, I think one (or more, maybe) of the deceased's family(ies) wanting to prosecute the driver, whereas the Crown had said there would be no prosecution. Is that what you are referring to in terms of controversy and shame on the judicial system? If so I'm not sure if I could give much of an opinion, with not being particularly well versed in the law.
Strange to see this - I was in the Millenium Hotel this morning at 8.30 and thinking about it.
On a more general note, from what I can tell, the SNP are doing a decent job. I'm not going blindly say they are doing everything right just because they represent the best route to Independence (I'm not a robot, as Kezia might suggest
). Plenty people will disagree with the SNP on policy and sadly people will disagree with the SNP, just because they are the SNP.
Going back to 2007, even something as simple as changing the name to Scottish Government from Scottish Executive showed an ambition and intent, that Scotland should be governed like other countries and, hopefully eventually, not simply as a region of a political union.
In government you cannot possibly satisfy everyone but the SNP seem to do as good a job as I imagine is possible. Not everything is perfect, it never will be but the SNP seem to reach out to more people than any other party.
They won't be suited to far left socialists or those with hard right wing views but the electorate is probably Normally distributed on the political spectrum and those two groups are at the extremes. Parties with extreme views don't tend to do well.
I think the SNP get the balance about right, a pro business party with a social conscience, which I think is a form of social democracy.
The more powers we have, the better job we, as the electorate in Scotland via out elected Government can do
do of running our country.