I welcome everyone to the 19th meeting of the Justice 2 Committee in 2005. I have a considerable list of apologies to intimate. We have received apologies from Colin Fox, Stewart Maxwell and Jackie Baillie. Jeremy Purvis will also be absent, but proposes that his colleague Margaret Smith attend in his place. She may duly appear. I thank Maureen Macmillan and Bill Butler for making the meeting quorate.
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