Justice 2 Committee, 24 Oct 2006

Meeting date: Tuesday, October 24, 2006

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Item in Private

Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the 26th meeting of the Justice 2 Committee in 2006, in the second session of the Scottish Parliament. I ask everyone present who has electronic devices—mobile phones, pagers, BlackBerrys and the like—to switch them off, please.

We have received apologies from the deputy convener, Bill Butler, so I welcome Cathie Craigie as his substitute. I also welcome Bill Aitken. I understand that committee member Jackie Baillie may have to leave on other business, but we hope that she will be able to return at the earliest opportunity.

For item 1 on our agenda, I ask committee members to agree that item 4—which is consideration of a list of candidates for the post of adviser on a piece of legislation—be taken in private.

Members indicated agreement.