Extract from Wales Assembly: Questions to the Counsel General - Oct 15
Wednesday, 16 October 2019 08:15
Alun Davies AM:...I and other Members were fortunate enough to
visit Jerusalem earlier in the year and to meet with a former chief
justice of Israel, where he explained how the Israeli
jurisdiction grew out of the British jurisdiction following the
secession of the UK mandate in Palestine, and was able to develop a
jurisdiction over time of its own and take on additional powers and
additional responsibilities as time grew. It appears to me that
that's a very good...Request free trial
:...I and other Members
were fortunate enough to visit Jerusalem earlier in the year and
to meet with a former chief justice of Israel, where he explained how
the Israeli jurisdiction grew out of the
British jurisdiction following the secession of the UK mandate in
Palestine, and was able to develop a jurisdiction over time of
its own and take on additional powers and additional
responsibilities as time grew. It appears to me that that's a
very good model for Wales and a very good model that we may be
able to follow.
(Counsel
General): Well, I thank the Member for that question.
I will be interested in discussing further with him his
reflections on the meeting and discussions he had with the former
chief justice of Israel. In my capacity as Counsel General, I've
looked into the question of jurisdiction with interest, and
discussed in Scotland and Northern Ireland how their arrangements
work and differ from ours here. I do think that the report of the
Commission on Justice in Wales will operate partly as a catalyst
for a richer set of discussions in this institution than perhaps
we would have had to embrace in the past about questions in
relation to criminal justice, broadly, and how that sits within
the devolution settlement. And, in particular, the point that the
Member makes about the question of jurisdiction arrangements into
the future, I obviously don't wish to prejudge anything that the
commission may say, but these are very important issues for us as
the body of Welsh law continues to expand as we do our
work.
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