Justice Committee

Meeting date: Tuesday, August 18, 2020

Official Report 636KB pdf

Decision on Taking Business in Private

Good morning. This is the 17th meeting in 2020 of the Justice Committee and our first hybrid committee meeting. I start by welcoming all the people in the committee room and all our virtual participants, who are John Finnie, Liam McArthur and Fulton MacGregor. We have apologies from Margaret Mitchell and Alasdair Allan, who cannot be with us today, and we are joined by Maurice Corry and Bill Kidd as their substitutes.

Before we begin, I remind members, witnesses and staff present that social distancing measures are in place in committee rooms and across the Holyrood campus. I ask that all take care to observe those measures over the course of this morning’s business, including when entering and exiting the committee room. I also remind members not to touch the microphones or consoles during the meeting. As usual, members should indicate to me if they wish to ask a question and the sound engineer will activate their microphone.

I invite members to agree to take agenda item 4 in private. As no member objects, that is agreed.