Justice Bill

Official Reports of Oral Evidence

Here you will find a list of the Official Reports of Oral Evidence sessions on the Bill when they are available:

26 September 2024 Department of Justice - Justice Bill: Principles and Content

24 October 2024 Research and Information Service (RaISe) - Potential Financial Implications of the Justice Bill

21 November 2024 Commissioner for Victims of Crime Designate

21 November 2024 Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission

16 January 2025 Department of Justice - Justice Bill: Department of Justice Amendments (Part 1: Biometrics, Restorative Justice, AccessNI Filtering and Serious Organised Crime)

23 January 2025 Department of Justice - Justice Bill - Department of Justice Amendments (Reform of Rehabilitation Periods; Repeal of Vagrancy Legislation; and Live Links [Courts and Tribunals])

30 January 2025 Research and Information Service (RaISe) - Justice Bill – Administration of Justice Provisions

30 January 2025 Barnardo’s Northern Ireland and the British Association of Social Workers Northern Ireland

6 February 2025 The Bar of Northern Ireland

27 February 2025 Research and Information Service (RaISe) - Justice Bill: Biometrics

27 February 2025 Scottish Biometrics Commissioner

6 March 2025 Information Commissioner's Office

13 March 2025 Forensic Science Northern Ireland

27 March 2025 Northern Ireland Commissioner for Children and Young People

27 March 2025 Children's Law Centre

3 April 2025 Ada Lovelace Institute

10 April 2025 Northern Ireland Youth Assembly

10 April 2025 Police Service of Northern Ireland

1 May 2025 Policing Board

8 May 2025 Probation Board for Northern Ireland

8 May 2025 NIACRO

15 May 2025 Law Society of Northern Ireland

12 June 2025 Northern Ireland Policing Board Human Rights Advisor

26 June 2025 Include Youth and VOYPIC

2 October 2025 AccessNI

16 October 2025 Community Restorative Justice Ireland and Northern Ireland Alternatives

23 October 2025 Kevin Brown - Professor of Criminal Law, School of Law, Queen’s University Belfast

6 November 2025 Department of Justice and Department of Health - Removal of defence of reasonable chastisement/Equal Protection 

13 November 2025 Retail NI 

13 Novemeber 2025 Simon Community and Homeless Connect

13 November 2025 Department of Justice - Strategic Framework for Youth Justice

20 November 2025 Department of Justice - Enabling Access to Justice Reform Programme and Taxation Reform update

27 November 2025 Police Service of Northern Ireland

4 December 2025 Department of Justice

11 December 2025 Department of Justice

15 January 2026 Police Service of Northern Ireland

22 January 2026 Lady Chief Justice and Taxing Master

29 January 2026 Committee deliberations - Department of Justice 

5 February 2026 Committee deliberations - Department of Justice 

5 February 2026 Minister of Justice and Permanent Secretary

12 February 2026 Committee deliberations - Department of Justice