The group is to be chaired by Prof Finbar McAuley, Jean Monnet professor of European criminal justice at University College Dublin and a law reform commissioner.
The other members are Mr Paul Anthony McDermott, barrister and lecturer in criminal law at UCD; Ms Mary Keane, barrister and deputy director-general of the Law Society; Prof Paul McCutcheon, head of the school of law at University of Limerick; Mr Matthew Feely, office of the Attorney General; Ms Elizabeth Howling, solicitor, office of the Director of Public Prosecutions, and Ms Geraldine Larkin of the Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform.