Justice 2 Committee, 10 Jun 2003

Meeting date: Tuesday, June 10, 2003

Official Report 82KB pdf

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Convener

The main agenda item is the choice of the committee's convener. The Parliament has agreed that members of the Conservative party are eligible to be nominated as convener of the committee.

I nominate Annabel Goldie to be the convener of the committee.

Miss Annabel Goldie was chosen as convener.

I congratulate Annabel Goldie. She is a lawyer and it is entirely appropriate that she should convene the committee. I am sure that doing so will be hard but good fun. I ask her to take the chair.

I thank Mike Pringle for undertaking the preliminaries for the meeting and for undertaking the role of interim convener. I thought that he handled it well, for an old man. We are very grateful. I also thank Jackie Baillie for her nomination and regard my being convener of the Justice 2 Committee as a privilege. I shall do my best to discharge my obligations in a non-provocative and unexceptionable manner.