ASSEMBLY BUSINESS

Minutes of Evidence

This page lists all the proceedings of the Committee for Justice during the current mandate that were reported by Hansard for publication. Committee Minutes of Evidence are published within three working days of the proceedings covered, excluding days on which the full Assembly sits.

Please note that Minutes of Evidence are not produced for all meetings of the Committee or indeed the entirety of those meetings. Generally, Minutes of Evidence are produced for those meetings, or parts of meetings, that involve the consideration of legislation or the taking of evidence as part of a Committee inquiry.

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02/05/2013	Briefing from the Lord Chief Justice	Read now PDF
25/04/2013	Legal Aid Reform: Magistrates' Courts Remuneration	Read now PDF
25/04/2013	Victims and Witnesses Five-year Strategy	Read now PDF
18/04/2013	Compensation Act 1988: Interpretation of Section 133	Read now PDF
18/04/2013	Independence of the Office of the Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland: Criminal Justice Inspection Northern Ireland Briefing	Read now PDF
18/04/2013	Historical Investigations: Office of the Police Ombudsman Briefing	Read now PDF
11/04/2013	Statutory Case Management: Consultation Responses	Read now PDF
21/03/2013	Review of the Northern Ireland Prison Service Estate Strategy: Final Decisions on Way Forward	Read now PDF
21/03/2013	Reform of Eligibility for Civil and Criminal Legal Aid: DOJ Briefing	Read now PDF
07/03/2013	Desertcreat Training College: Governance Arrangements and Progress	Read now PDF
07/03/2013	Draft Five-year Strategy for Victims and Witnesses of Crime: Consultation Responses	Read now PDF
28/02/2013	Firearms (Amendment) Regulations (NI) 2011: Firearms Dealers and Shooters Association	Read now PDF
28/02/2013	Firearms (Amendment) Regulations (NI) 2011: Consultation Outcomes	Read now PDF
28/02/2013	Firearms (Amendment) Regulations (NI) 2011: BASC/CAI/GTGNI Briefing	Read now PDF
21/02/2013	NI Judicial Appointments Ombudsman - Rationalisation of Functions: Briefing from Mr Karamjit Singh	Read now PDF
21/02/2013	NI Judicial Appointments Ombudsman - Rationalisation of Functions: DOJ Briefing	Read now PDF
14/02/2013	Full-body Searches: Progress on the Introduction of Technological Alternatives	Read now PDF
14/02/2013	Criminal Justice Bill: Attorney General Briefing	Read now PDF
31/01/2013	Speeding up Justice/Youth Engagement Pilot: DOJ Briefing	Read now PDF
24/01/2013	Violent Offender Orders: DOJ Policy Development Update	Read now PDF
17/01/2013	Reducing Offending Strategic Framework: Consultation Responses	Read now PDF
17/01/2013	Mental Capacity Bill: Consultation Responses and Proposed Way Forward	Read now PDF
10/01/2013	Marie Stopes International: Compliance with Criminal Law on Abortion in Northern Ireland	Read now PDF
10/01/2013	Department of Justice Savings Delivery Plans: Six-monthly Update	Read now PDF
06/12/2012	Criminal Justice Bill: Clause-by-clause Consideration	Read now PDF
04/12/2012	Criminal Justice Bill: Issues for Further Consideration	Read now PDF
22/11/2012	Northern Ireland Courts and Tribunals Service: Estate Strategy Update	Read now PDF
22/11/2012	Criminal Justice Bill: Committee Consideration	Read now PDF
15/11/2012	Criminal Justice Bill: DNA/Fingerprint Retention Clauses	Read now PDF
08/11/2012	Criminal Justice Bill: DOJ Briefing	Read now PDF
25/10/2012	Criminal Justice Inspection Northern Ireland Reports: Management of life and indeterminate sentence prisoners in Northern Ireland	Read now PDF
25/10/2012	CJINI Report: Antisocial Behaviour	Read now PDF
25/10/2012	CJINI Report: Policing with the Community: A Follow-up Review of Inspection Recommendations	Read now PDF
25/10/2012	Prison Reform: Delivery Update	Read now PDF
18/10/2012	Draft Five-Year Strategy for Victims and Witnesses: Public Consultation	Read now PDF
18/10/2012	Criminal Justice Bill: PSNI Briefing	Read now PDF
11/10/2012	Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland: Consultation Reponses	Read now PDF
11/10/2012	Criminal Justice Bill: Trafficking People for Exploitation-Care Briefing	Read now PDF
11/10/2012	Criminal Justice Bill: Trafficking People for Exploitation-NICEM Briefing	Read now PDF
04/10/2012	Criminal Justice Bill: DNA/Fingerprint Retention Clauses-Children's Law Centre Briefing	Read now PDF
04/10/2012	Criminal Justice Bill: DNA/Fingerprint Retention Clauses-NICCY Briefing	Read now PDF
27/09/2012	Criminal Justice Bill: Sex Offender Notification and DNA/Fingerprint Retention Clauses	Read now PDF
27/09/2012	Witness Care Unit Project: PSNI/PPS Briefing	Read now PDF
20/09/2012	The Police Act 1997 (Criminal Records) (Amendment No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2012	Read now PDF
20/09/2012	The Police and Criminal Evidence (Northern Ireland) Order 1989 (Codes of Practice) (Revisions of Codes C, E, F, and H) Order 2012	Read now
20/09/2012	Criminal Justice Bill: Human Trafficking Clauses	Read now PDF
20/09/2012	Criminal Justice Bill: Organised Crime Task Force Immigration and Human Trafficking Subgroup	Read now PDF
13/09/2012	Statutory Time Limits	Read now PDF
28/06/2012	Review of Youth Justice: Ministerial Briefing	Read now PDF
28/06/2012	Mental Capacity Bill	Read now PDF
28/06/2012	Criminal Justice Bill: DOJ Briefing	Read now PDF
05/07/2012	Scope and Nature of Judicial Independence/Forensic Science Northern Ireland: Briefing by the Attorney General	Read now PDF
05/07/2012	Faster, Fairer Justice Bill: Policy Areas	Read now PDF
05/07/2012	Earlier Guilty Pleas and Reform of Committal Proceedings: Consultation Responses	Read now PDF
21/06/2012	Review of Access to Justice Arrangements: Ministerial Response	Read now PDF
21/06/2012	Criminal Justice System: Progress on Reducing Avoidable Delay	Read now PDF
14/06/2012	Probation Board for Northern Ireland: Key Issues and Priorities	Read now PDF
14/06/2012	Prison Service: Secretary of State's Direction on National Security Functions	Read now PDF
07/06/2012	Retention of Human Tissue and Body Part Samples: Briefing from the State Pathologist	Read now PDF
07/06/2012	Retention of Human Tissue and Body Part Samples: Briefing from the Office of the Police Ombudsman	Read now PDF
07/06/2012	June Monitoring Round and Savings Delivery Plans: DOJ Briefing	Read now PDF
31/05/2012	Review of Youth Justice	Read now PDF
31/05/2012	Prison Service Voluntary Early Retirement Scheme: Legal Advice	Read now PDF
31/05/2012	Firearms Licensing Fees and Miscellaneous Amendments	Read now PDF
24/05/2012	Recovery of Defence Costs Orders	Read now PDF
17/05/2012	PSNI Retention of Human Tissue and Body Part Samples	Read now PDF
17/05/2012	Police and Criminal Evidence (NI) Order 1989 (PACE): Consultation on PACE Code C, E, F and H Revisions	Read now PDF
10/05/2012	Criminal Legal Aid: PAC Report	Read now PDF
10/05/2012	Draft Legal Aid (General) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2012	Read now PDF
26/04/2012	Review of the Northern Ireland Prison Service Estate Strategy	Read now PDF
26/04/2012	Review of the Criminal Records Regime in Northern Ireland: Part 2	Read now PDF
03/05/2012	World Police and Fire Games 2013	Read now PDF
03/05/2012	Office of the Police Ombudsman: Briefing from the Interim Chief Executive	Read now PDF
26/04/2012	Review of the Criminal Records Regime in Northern Ireland: Part 2: Draft Consultation	Read now PDF
03/05/2012	Criminal Justice (Northern Ireland) Order 2008: Commencement of Articles 19 and 20	Read now PDF
19/04/2012	Policing Architecture: Development of a Protocol	Read now PDF
19/04/2012	Northern Ireland Prison Service Exit Scheme: Prison Officers' Association	Read now PDF
29/03/2012	Review of Judicial Appointments: Northern Ireland Judicial Appointments Ombudsman	Read now PDF
29/03/2012	Foreign National Prisoners: Early Removal Scheme Proposals	Read now PDF
29/03/2012	Review of the Northern Ireland Prison Service Corporate Governance Arrangements	Read now PDF
22/03/2012	Tommy English Murder Trial: Director of Public Prosecutions	Read now PDF
22/03/2012	Mental Capacity Bill: Departmental Briefing	Read now PDF
22/03/2012	Community Safety Strategy: Departmental Briefing	Read now PDF
08/03/2012	Northern Ireland Prison Service Exit Scheme and New Target Operating Model	Read now PDF
08/03/2012	Review of Judicial Appointments	Read now PDF
01/03/2012	Review of Judicial Appointments in Northern Ireland: Attorney General for Northern Ireland	Read now PDF
01/03/2012	Tommy English Murder Trial: Ministerial Briefing	Read now PDF
23/02/2012	Access to Justice Review: Briefing on Responses to Consultation	Read now PDF
16/02/2012	PSNI: Key Budgetary and Resourcing Challenges/ Human Rights and Policing in Northern Ireland	Read now PDF
16/02/2012	Inquiry into the Criminal Justice Services available to the Victims and Witnesses of Crime in Northern Ireland	Read now PDF
09/02/2012	Prison Reform: Update	Read now PDF
09/02/2012	Avoidable Delay: Progress Report	Read now PDF
09/02/2012	Avoidable Delay: Response	Read now PDF
02/02/2012	Fine Default Responses to Consultation	Read now PDF
02/02/2012	Update Briefing on the Revised Structures of the DoJ Reform Programme	Read now PDF
26/01/2012	Security Industry Authority	Read now PDF
26/01/2012	Recovery of Defence Costs Orders	Read now PDF
26/01/2012	Office of the Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland	Read now PDF
19/01/2012	Inquiry into Criminal Justice Services available to Victims and Witnesses of Crime in Northern Ireland	Read now PDF
12/01/2012	Review of Community Sentences	Read now PDF
12/01/2012	Savings Delivery Plans	Read now PDF
12/01/2012	Draft Strategic Framework for Reducing Offending	Read now PDF
15/12/2011	Inquiry into Criminal Justice Services available to Victims and Witnesses of Crime in Northern Ireland	Read now PDF
08/12/2011	Programme for Government	Read now PDF
08/12/2011	Employability Strategy: Northern Ireland Prison Service	Read now PDF
08/12/2011	Criminal Justice Inspectorate Report on the Care of Victims and Witnesses in the Criminal Justice System	Read now PDF
01/12/2011	Inquiry into Victims and Witnesses of Crime: Key Issues	Read now PDF
01/12/2011	Inquiry into Victims and Witnesses of Crime	Read now PDF
28/11/2011	Sexual Offences (Northern Ireland) Order 2008: Unduly Lenient Sentences	Read now PDF
17/11/2011	Prisons Review	Read now PDF
17/11/2011	Sex Offender Notification Requirements: Final Policy Proposals	Read now PDF
17/11/2011	Public Prosecution Service: Draft Consultation on Governance and Accountability	Read now PDF
17/11/2011	Sex Offender Notification Requirements Final Policy Proposals	Read now PDF
17/11/2011	Public Prosecution Service Draft Consultation on Governance and Accountability	Read now PDF
17/11/2011	Prisons Review	Read now PDF
10/11/2011	Northern Ireland Prison Service Exit Scheme and Operating Model	Read now PDF
10/11/2011	Inquiry into Victims and Witnesses of Crime Departmental Briefing	Read now PDF
10/11/2011	Policing Objectives Departmental Briefing	Read now PDF
10/11/2011	Briefing by Attorney General	Read now PDF
27/10/2011	Northern Ireland Organised Crime Strategy 2012-15	Read now PDF
27/10/2011	Review of the Northern Ireland Prison Service	Read now PDF
20/10/2011	Community Safety Strategy	Read now PDF
13/10/2011	Briefing on SL1 Criminal Aid Certificate Rules, Assignment of Two Counsel	Read now PDF
13/10/2011	Results of the Consultation on PCSP Code of Practice for Independent Members; Designated Organisations; and Code of Practice for Functions	Read now PDF
06/10/2011	October Monitoring Round and Update to Savings Plans	Read now PDF
06/10/2011	Access to Justice Review	Read now PDF
29/09/2011	Youth Justice Review: Findings of Final Report	Read now PDF
29/09/2011	Prison Service: Delivery of the SEE Programme	Read now PDF
22/09/2011	Use of Legal Services: Criminal Justice Inspection Northern Ireland	Read now PDF
22/09/2011	Use of Legal Services: Department of Justice	Read now PDF
15/09/2011	Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill: Legislative Consent Motion	Read now PDF
08/09/2011	Final Legislative Proposals for the Retention and Destruction of DNA and Fingerprints in Northern Ireland	Read now PDF
08/09/2011	CJINI Report on the Police Ombudsman: Criminal Justice Inspection Northern Ireland	Read now PDF
08/09/2011	CJINI Report on the Police Ombudsman: Minister of Justice	Read now PDF
08/09/2011	CJINI Report on the Police Ombudsman: Ombudsman	Read now PDF
30/06/2011	Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007	Read now PDF
30/06/2011	Review of the Northern Ireland Criminal Records Regime	Read now PDF
30/06/2011	AccessNI: Statutory Rule under Part V of the Police Act 1997	Read now PDF
30/06/2011	Police Ombudsman Investigation Report: Minister of Justice	Read now PDF
30/06/2011	Police Ombudsman Investigation Report: Tony McCusker	Read now PDF
28/06/2011	Legal Aid Dispute: Bar Council	Read now PDF
28/06/2011	Consultation on Legislative Proposals for DNA/Fingerprint Retention	Read now PDF
23/06/2011	Fine Default in Northern Ireland	Read now PDF
23/06/2011	Legal Aid Dispute	Read now PDF
23/06/2011	Death in Custody of Allyn Baxter	Read now PDF
23/06/2011	Review of Court Cases Made in Sexual Offences Cases 1997-2011	Read now PDF
16/06/2011	Long-term Objectives for Policing	Read now PDF
16/06/2011	Consultation on Code of Practice for Appointment of Independent Members to Policing and Community Safety Partnerships	Read now PDF
16/06/2011	London Olympic Games and Paralympic Games (Amendment) Bill: Legislative Consent Motion	Read now PDF
16/06/2011	Stadia Development: Irish Football Association	Read now PDF
16/06/2011	Planned Justice Legislation	Read now PDF
09/06/2011	Justice Policy Directorate and Related Non-departmental Public Bodies	Read now PDF
09/06/2011	Northern Ireland Prison Service	Read now PDF
09/06/2011	Northern Ireland Courts and Tribunals Service	Read now PDF
02/06/2011	Department of Justice Budget and Savings Plan	Read now PDF
02/06/2011	Justice Delivery Directorate and Related NDPBs	Read now PDF
02/06/2011	Policing and Community Safety Directorate and Related NDPBs	Read now PDF
26/05/2011	The Legal Aid for Crown Court Proceedings (Costs) (Amendment) Rules (Northern Ireland) 2011	Read now PDF
26/05/2011	Overview Briefing on the Main Areas of Responsibility and Key Issues Facing the Department of Justice	Read now PDF

ASSEMBLY BUSINESS

Minutes of Evidence

Briefing from the Lord Chief Justice

Legal Aid Reform: Magistrates' Courts Remuneration

Victims and Witnesses Five-year Strategy

Compensation Act 1988: Interpretation of Section 133

Independence of the Office of the Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland: Criminal Justice Inspection Northern Ireland Briefing

Historical Investigations: Office of the Police Ombudsman Briefing

Statutory Case Management: Consultation Responses

Review of the Northern Ireland Prison Service Estate Strategy: Final Decisions on Way Forward

Reform of Eligibility for Civil and Criminal Legal Aid: DOJ Briefing

Desertcreat Training College: Governance Arrangements and Progress

Draft Five-year Strategy for Victims and Witnesses of Crime: Consultation Responses

Firearms (Amendment) Regulations (NI) 2011: Firearms Dealers and Shooters Association

Firearms (Amendment) Regulations (NI) 2011: Consultation Outcomes

Firearms (Amendment) Regulations (NI) 2011: BASC/CAI/GTGNI Briefing

NI Judicial Appointments Ombudsman - Rationalisation of Functions: Briefing from Mr Karamjit Singh

NI Judicial Appointments Ombudsman - Rationalisation of Functions: DOJ Briefing

Full-body Searches: Progress on the Introduction of Technological Alternatives

Criminal Justice Bill: Attorney General Briefing

Speeding up Justice/Youth Engagement Pilot: DOJ Briefing

Violent Offender Orders: DOJ Policy Development Update

Reducing Offending Strategic Framework: Consultation Responses

Mental Capacity Bill: Consultation Responses and Proposed Way Forward

Marie Stopes International: Compliance with Criminal Law on Abortion in Northern Ireland

Department of Justice Savings Delivery Plans: Six-monthly Update

Criminal Justice Bill: Clause-by-clause Consideration

Criminal Justice Bill: Issues for Further Consideration

Northern Ireland Courts and Tribunals Service: Estate Strategy Update

Criminal Justice Bill: Committee Consideration

Criminal Justice Bill: DNA/Fingerprint Retention Clauses

Criminal Justice Bill: DOJ Briefing

Criminal Justice Inspection Northern Ireland Reports: Management of life and indeterminate sentence prisoners in Northern Ireland

CJINI Report: Antisocial Behaviour

CJINI Report: Policing with the Community: A Follow-up Review of Inspection Recommendations

Prison Reform: Delivery Update

Draft Five-Year Strategy for Victims and Witnesses: Public Consultation

Criminal Justice Bill: PSNI Briefing

Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland: Consultation Reponses

Criminal Justice Bill: Trafficking People for Exploitation-Care Briefing

Criminal Justice Bill: Trafficking People for Exploitation-NICEM Briefing

Criminal Justice Bill: DNA/Fingerprint Retention Clauses-Children's Law Centre Briefing

Criminal Justice Bill: DNA/Fingerprint Retention Clauses-NICCY Briefing

Criminal Justice Bill: Sex Offender Notification and DNA/Fingerprint Retention Clauses

Witness Care Unit Project: PSNI/PPS Briefing

The Police Act 1997 (Criminal Records) (Amendment No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2012

The Police and Criminal Evidence (Northern Ireland) Order 1989 (Codes of Practice) (Revisions of Codes C, E, F, and H) Order 2012

Criminal Justice Bill: Human Trafficking Clauses

Criminal Justice Bill: Organised Crime Task Force Immigration and Human Trafficking Subgroup

Statutory Time Limits

Review of Youth Justice: Ministerial Briefing

Mental Capacity Bill

Criminal Justice Bill: DOJ Briefing

Scope and Nature of Judicial Independence/Forensic Science Northern Ireland: Briefing by the Attorney General

Faster, Fairer Justice Bill: Policy Areas

Earlier Guilty Pleas and Reform of Committal Proceedings: Consultation Responses

Review of Access to Justice Arrangements: Ministerial Response

Criminal Justice System: Progress on Reducing Avoidable Delay

Probation Board for Northern Ireland: Key Issues and Priorities

Prison Service: Secretary of State's Direction on National Security Functions

Retention of Human Tissue and Body Part Samples: Briefing from the State Pathologist

Retention of Human Tissue and Body Part Samples: Briefing from the Office of the Police Ombudsman

June Monitoring Round and Savings Delivery Plans: DOJ Briefing

Review of Youth Justice

Prison Service Voluntary Early Retirement Scheme: Legal Advice

Firearms Licensing Fees and Miscellaneous Amendments

Recovery of Defence Costs Orders

PSNI Retention of Human Tissue and Body Part Samples

Police and Criminal Evidence (NI) Order 1989 (PACE): Consultation on PACE Code C, E, F and H Revisions

Criminal Legal Aid: PAC Report

Draft Legal Aid (General) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2012

Review of the Northern Ireland Prison Service Estate Strategy

Review of the Criminal Records Regime in Northern Ireland: Part 2

World Police and Fire Games 2013

Office of the Police Ombudsman: Briefing from the Interim Chief Executive

Review of the Criminal Records Regime in Northern Ireland: Part 2: Draft Consultation

Criminal Justice (Northern Ireland) Order 2008: Commencement of Articles 19 and 20

Policing Architecture: Development of a Protocol

Northern Ireland Prison Service Exit Scheme: Prison Officers' Association

Review of Judicial Appointments: Northern Ireland Judicial Appointments Ombudsman