Justice Committee
Meeting date: Tuesday, November 20, 2012
Official Report
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Subordinate Legislation
Criminal Legal Aid (Scotland) (Fees) Amendment Regulations 2012 (SSI 2012/276)
This negative instrument makes new provisions relating to fees payable to senior and junior counsel for criminal legal aid work and to conditions of payment.
Members will see from the clerk’s paper that the Subordinate Legislation Committee has identified that, in the table of fees that is listed in the regulations, the reference to the Road Traffic Act 1998 should have been to the Road Traffic Act 1988. No doubt somebody has had their fingers rapped for that.
The Scottish Government has accepted that there is an error and has already laid a second negative instrument to correct the mistake—I suppose that it deletes one digit and puts in another. The committee will consider the amending instrument in due course.
Do members have any comments?
I refer members to my declaration in the register of members’ interests.
Yes, you are a member of the Faculty of Advocates.
Are we content to make no recommendation on the instrument?
Members indicated agreement.
The next meeting is on 27 November, when we will take evidence—
Before we finish, I recall that we have a panel of witnesses booked for next week. Do we have confirmation that all the witnesses are attending?
I am about to come to that—if you bear with me, I will make you smile.
The next meeting is on 27 November, when we will take evidence on issues related to police reform from Her Majesty’s inspectorate of constabulary for Scotland, the chair of the Scottish Police Authority, and Chief Constable House. Was your question about that, Graeme?
Yes.
It is now answered. That concludes the meeting.
Meeting closed at 12:45.