HC Deb 29 January 1981 vol 997 cc482-4W
Miss Richardson

asked the Attorney-General if he will publish in the Official Report lists of magistrates' courts in (a) inner London and (b) the rest of the Metropolitan Police district, showing the number of applications for and refusals of legal aid for magistrates' court proceedings in 1979, distinguishing between committal proceedings, summary trials of indictable and each-way offences, and summary trials of purely summary offences.

The Solicitor-General

The numbers of applications for legal aid and the numbers refused for all magistrates'

Applications for and Refusals of Legal Aid for Proceedings in Magistrates' and Juvenile Courts in the Metropolitan Area
Number of applications
Summary Trials
1979 Committal Proceedings Indictable/Triable-either-way offences Summary offences
Total Refused Total Refused Total Refused
INNER LONDON
City of London
Guildhall 114 171 8 62 7
Mansion House 62 6 153 13 32 13
Bow Street 509 8 1,583 227 738 345
Camberwell Green 667 14 1,474 70 887 127
Clerkenwell 676 1,492 71 141 34
Greenwich 195 2 1,454 169 284 112
Hampstead 167 359 31 91 35
Highbury Corner 605 42 944 123 459 135
Inner London Juvenile 167 3,699 91 764 89
Horseferry Road 316 2,077 248 658 148
Marlborough Street 377 9 1,673 293 233 58
Marylebone 865 14 1,837 159 645 138
Old Street 376 4 1,021 82 89 13
South Western 724 16 1,629 184 377 131
Thames 313 1,011 18 239 76
Tower Bridge 393 23 951 178 220 100
Wells Street 20 162 32 153 44
West London (Southcombe Street) 423 611 90 614 82
West London (Walton Street) 1 11 1 19 11
Woolwich 210 436 83 51 39
Total Inner London 7,180 138 22,748 2,171 6,756 1,737
OUTER LONDON
Barnet 65 1 172 23 259 78
Barking 112 759 271 126 76
Bexley 154 570 2 213 74
Brentford and Ealing 327 2 1,572 296 791 273
Bromley 70 1,373 42 332 134
Cheshunt 25 206 12 51 19
Croyndon 29 1,711 155 474 189
Dartford 81 1 316 22 140 69
Dorking 215 10 80 17
Edmonton 650 36 1,162 151 979 452
Epping and Ongar 72 247 24 94 54
Epsom 43 1 265 10 82 35
Esher and Walton 56 288 34 47 22
Gore 341 2 1,035 76 349 125
Havering 176 750 22 134 94
Highgate 260 34 623 343 222 150
Kingston-Upon-Thames 69 588 40 134 45
Newham 317 2,120 228 529 220
New Spelthorne 74 3 216 30 102 38
Redbridge 56 993 218 149 95
Richmond-Upon-Thames 180 2 426 66 142 59
South Mimms 40 1 90 7 47 38
Staines and Sunbury-on-Thames 112 343 49 49 15
Sutton 61 1 154 51 135 45
Uxbridge 196 14 1,131 403 220 155
Wallington 134 3 357 40 122 56
Waltham Forest 407 2,018 241 121
Watford 94 824 26 97 55
Willesdon 54 1,087 90 268 93
Acton 65 1 450 103 111 62
Wimbledon 95 1 328 63 110 47
Total Outer London 4,415 103 22,389 3,148 6,709 2,884
Total 11,595 241 45,137 5,319 13,465 4,621

courts proceedings were published by petty sessional division in table 25 of "Criminal Statistics, England and Wales, 1979"—Cmnd. 8098. Corresponding figures for the types of proceedings specified are given in the following table.