§ Miss Richardsonasked 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 483W 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-GeneralThe numbers of applications for legal aid and the numbers refused for all magistrates'
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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.