Holyrood committee investigating ScotGov's handling of complaints against Alex Salmond will start calling witnesses after summer recess - Leslie Evans likely to be the first, while Nicola Sturgeon & Mr Salmond himself will be invited, along with other advisors & civil servants
Committee has agreed timetable with ScotGov for handover of written evidence and documents etc; also calls from members to get ahold of SNP records and Nicola Sturgeon's personal phone records, as well as evidence Alex Salmond was to use in the judicial review
Members also keen to have the Salmond inquiry committee meet on a weekly basis "at the very least" and potentially sitting in the Holyrood chamber as well as in zoom-committee. Could also look to have witnesses swear an oath or affirmation to underline gravity of inquiry
As well as development of complaints process and the debacle of the judicial review (where govt conceded defeat days before first court hearing) the committee is also going to examine the “culture of the organisation” (...the government), sounds like under both Sturgeon & Salmond
Confirmed: @PermSecScot Leslie Evans will be invited to give evidence to the Salmond inquiry committee in mid-August. A list of potential witnesses who will be invited to submit written evidence "will be published shortly", and submissions will be published on @ScotParl website
Here's the "initial" potential witness list for the Salmond inquiry - and a note at the bottom there that the committee has the power to "place witnesses under oath" (any breach of that oath could ultimately lead to criminal proceedings under the Criminal Law Consolidation Act) 
Other Salmond committee paperwork published today notes that inquiry "will not revisit the criminal trial nor re-investigate the substance of the complaints originally made" to ScotGov, and that "all participants must comply" with court order banning identification of complainers
