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Title    : Scottish Parliament: Committees: Justice 1: Minutes: Meeting 9,
1999
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JUSTICE AND HOME AFFAIRS COMMITTEE 

MINUTES 

9th Meeting, Session 1 (1999)  

Tuesday 9 November 1999 

 

 
Present:

Scott Barrie 
Roseanna Cunningham (Convener) 
Phil Gallie 
Christine Grahame 
Gordon Jackson 
Kate MacLean 
Maureen Macmillan 
Tricia Marwick 
Mrs Lyndsay Mcintosh 
Pauline McNeill 
Euan Robson 
  


Also present: Dr Richard Simpson, Margaret Smith, Ben Wallace.

 

The meeting opened at 9.33 am. 

1. Evidence: The Committee considered the handling of questions to
witnesses (without Official Report). 


2. Official Report: The Committee agreed that the Convener should write to
the Presiding Officer expressing concern about the time taken for the
Official Report of the Committee’s meetings to appear in print.


3. Subordinate Legislation: The Committee considered the Wafer Scottish
Seal Directions 1999 (SSI 1999/130).


4. Adults with Incapacity (Scotland) Bill: The Committee took evidence at
Stage 1 on the general principles of the Bill from—

John Deighan, Parliamentary Officer, Catholic Church in Scotland, Mary
Kearns, Chairman, Dr George Chalmers and Dr Philip Howard, Scottish Council
on Human Bioethics.

The Committee agreed to invite further evidence from the British Medical
Association, the Royal College of Nursing and Professor Sheila Maclean and
on the implications for the courts. 


5. Abolition of Feudal Tenure etc. (Scotland) Bill: The Committee took
evidence at Stage 1 on the general principles of the Bill from—

Joyce Lugton and Micheline Brannan, Civil Law Division, Justice Department,
Norman Mcleod and Andrew Brown, Solicitor’s Office, Scottish Executive;

Lynne Raeside, Head of Policy Unit, Iain Hay and Alan English, Feudal
Reform Working Party, Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors;

Elizabeth Leighton, Scottish Environment LINK, Peter Gibb, Robin Callander
and Andy Wightman, Land Reform Scotland;

Professor Robert Rennie, Conveyancing Committee, Law Society of Scotland.


6. Future business: The Committee considered its provisional programme for
the remainder of the year (without Official Report). 

 

The meeting closed at 12.50 pm.

Andrew Mylne
Clerk to the Committee


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