Justice Committee: weekly update
15 March 2019
At the end of sitting weeks the Justice Committee publishes a brief summary of its activities in the form of a weekly update.
This week (commencing 11 March 2019)
This week, we held a private informal meeting on the subject of prison governance.
Published correspondence
- Letter from the Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice, on Re-appointment of Chair of the Judicial Appointments Commission, dated 4 March 2019
- Letter from the Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice, on Amendment of the Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme 2012, dated 28 February 2019
- Letter from Max Hill QC, Director of Public Prosecutions, on hate crime prosecutions, dated 7 January 2019
- Letter from Rory Stewart MP, Minister of State for Justice on HMP Birmingham, dated 28 February 2019
Inquiries with open calls for written evidence
The official deadline for the Committee's inquiry into Courts & Tribunals Reform was on 11 March 2019. However, the inquiry's evidence portal remains open for late submissions by agreement.
Any such submissions must be a maximum of 3,000 words, and must address all or some of the questions set out in the terms of reference.
More guidance on submitting evidence can be found here.
Future business
There will be no public meeting of the Justice Committee in w/c 18 March. The Committee will instead next meet in private on 19 March to discuss the Ministry of Justice's Supplementary Estimate 2018-19.
Further information
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