Justice 1 Committee,

Meeting date: Tuesday, May 23, 2006

Official Report 359KB pdf

---

Items in Private

Good afternoon and welcome to the 17th meeting in 2006 of the Justice 1 Committee. All committee members are present. I ask everyone to switch off anything on their person that may interfere with our broadcasting system. I welcome to the committee Des McNulty MSP, Ken Macintosh MSP and Alex Neil MSP. I welcome also Rob Marr from the Scottish Parliament's directorate of legal services. Unfortunately, our committee adviser, Jim Fraser, cannot be here, but he will be advising us during the course of our inquiry.

I invite members to consider whether to take in private item 4, which is consideration of whether to accept written evidence to the committee inquiry into the Scottish Criminal Record Office that has been submitted after the deadline for receipt of submissions. Does the committee agree to that?

Members indicated agreement.

I also invite the committee to take in private item 5, which is consideration of the main themes arising from the oral evidence sessions on the committee's inquiry into the SCRO. That is our usual practice, and I ask the committee to consent to that.

Members indicated agreement.