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CAFCASS: MPs continue their review of Falconer

The Lord Chancellor's treatment of Judy Weleminsky, the rebel Cafcass board member, is to be discussed in a third meeting of the House of Commons committee that protects the privileges of Parliament.

The standards and privileges committee is scheduled to meet in private on 2 March.

Lord Falconer suspended Weleminsky from the board of the children's court advisory service before Christmas.

He had received a list of Weleminsky's alleged offences, which included her decision to give evidence to the Commons select committee on constitutional affairs. The committee subsequently published a report criticising Cafcass.

The issue was referred to the standards committee following a complaint about the Lord Chancellor's conduct from Alan Beith, the Liberal Democrat MP and chairman of the constitutional affairs committee (News, 21-27 January).

Weleminsky was the only member of the Cafcass board who refused to resign after Lord Falconer requested all members to step down.

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