Equal Opportunities Committee, 05 Dec 2000

Meeting date: Tuesday, December 5, 2000

Official Report 192KB pdf

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Reporters

Members have received a written report from Elaine Smith—the gender reporter progress report. Elaine is ill today and has sent her apologies for not being at the meeting. You will see from paper EO/00/23/5 that she wanted us to agree that she should produce a report on the Executive's consultation paper, "Redressing the balance: cross-examination in rape and sexual offences trials". She would do that by next January.

Members indicated agreement.

Do any of the other reporters have a report?

I do not have a report as such, but the next meeting of my reporter's group will be at 8 pm tomorrow in room 1.15; everyone is welcome to attend.

There will be a report back from the recent equality network conference, and we will consider upcoming legislation, especially the family law bill. As an inducement to attend, and because it is the last meeting of the year, we thought that we might repair to a convenient hostelry at the end of the meeting.

I point out, for the Official Report, that we do not have reporters' groups, we just have reporters.

I have been finding it difficult to get everyone together at the same time. I do not have a report to present, but I would like to have an input to the forward work programme when we come to that on the agenda.

Meeting continued in private until 12:25.