Justice Committee
Meeting date: Tuesday, September 4, 2012
Official Report
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Decisions on Taking Business in Private
We return to item 1. For clarity, I will take the issues separately. Does the committee agree to consider items 4 and 5 in private?
Members indicated agreement.
I will clarify the position on item 6—the situation is partly my fault. We will look at our full work programme next week, after the Government has announced its legislative programme—we have to know that first. To allow invitations to give evidence to be sent in good time, item 6 has the narrow purpose of allowing the committee to decide whether to hold an evidence session on the impact of the media on the criminal justice system, on which we have a debate coming up.
The purpose of item 6 is to allow the committee to decide whether to hold an evidence session on Tuesday 2 October on the role of the media in criminal trials. If we agree that that would be sensible, we will agree on the witnesses for the session, because we need to give notice to people, particularly in certain areas of work. With the committee’s leave, I intend to place consideration of the full work programme and of how we deal with it on the agenda for next week’s meeting.
Is the deputy convener content with that? We will not discuss the full work programme today; item 6 has been narrowed down to a particular issue. Next week, we will discuss the full work programme and how we deal with it.
If item 6 is not a discussion of the work programme and is a discussion in detail of the witnesses whom we will invite for a specific session, I am happy for it to be taken in private.
We will move into private for item 4.
12:14
Meeting continued in private until 12:43.