Criminal Justice Committee
Meeting Minutes
5th Meeting, 2024
- Date: Wednesday, January 31, 2024
- Session: 6
- Location: T4.60-CR6 The Livingstone Room
- Meeting opened at: 09:00
- Meeting closed at: 13:05
- Published: Wednesday, January 31, 2024 03:09pm
Committee Members Attendees
- Audrey Nicoll (Convener)
- Russell Findlay (Deputy Convener)
- Katy Clark (Member)
- Sharon Dowey (Member)
- Fulton MacGregor (Member)
- Rona Mackay (Member)
- Pauline McNeill (Member)
- John Swinney (Member)
1 Victims, Witnesses, and Justice Reform (Scotland) Bill:
The Committee took evidence on the Bill at Stage 1 from—
The Right Honourable Dorothy Bain KC, Lord Advocate;
and then from—
The Right Honourable Lord Matthews, Senator of the College of Justice;
Sheriff Andrew Cubie, Sheriff of Glasgow & Strathkelvin, Appeal Sheriff and Temporary High Court Judge;
and then from—
Dr Andrew Tickell, Lecturer in Law, Department of Economics and Law and Seonaid Stevenson-McCabe, Lecturer in Law, Department of Economics and Law, Glasgow Caledonian University.
2 Victims, Witnesses, and Justice Reform (Scotland) Bill (In Private):
The Committee considered the evidence it heard earlier under agenda item 1.