§ Mr. GarnierTo ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department how many official visits the hon. Member for Wyre Forest (Mr. Lock) has paid to the United States since his appointment as Parliamentary Secretary; what was the location of each visit; who he met; and what subjects were discussed. [110911]
§ Mr. LockI have made one visit to the United States of America since my appointment as Parliamentary Secretary, where I had the meetings set out in the following table. I also visited Winnipeg and Ottawa, and details of the meetings I held there are also set out in the table.
The purpose of my visit was to meet experienced practitioners in the USA and Canada to discuss the successful operation of criminal defence services, and the use of salaried defence advocates.
This forms part of the policy making process for the development of the Criminal Defence Service in England and Wales, the first stage of which will be implemented in October 2000. I will be consulting with professional bodies and other interested parties on the detail of our proposals in the coming months.
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Location Subject Los Angeles Michael Judge, Public Defender Setting up and running publicly funded criminal defence services, different models of public defence services, ensuring quality services for defendants, monitoring mechanisms, training and development of public defender lawyers and staff, attending court hearings Robert Kalunian, Assistant Public Defender Adolfo Lara, Assistant Public Defender Public Defender Office Management Board Penny Van Bogaert, Assistant Deputy Public Defender (Resources) Trial lawyers, Paralegals and Investigators from the Public Defender"s Offece Portland, Oregon Ann Christian, Oregon State Setting up and running publicly funded criminal defence services, different models of public defence services, ensuring quality services for defendants, monitoring mechanisms, training and development of public attending court hearings,judicial views on service provided by public defence services Judicial Department, Head of Indigent Defence Services James Hennings, Metropolitan Public Defender, Portland Ross Shepard, Lane County Public Defender Managers and Trial Lawyers, Multnomah County Defender Office Judge Frantz, Principal Criminal Judge, Portland Ron Williams, Attorney in charge of drug treatment programme, Metropolitan Public Defender's Office, Portland Group of Private Attorneys contracted to do public defence work Seattle James Crane, Office of Public Setting up and running publicly funded criminal defence services, different models of public defence services, ensuring quality services for defendants, monitoring mechanisms, training Defence, king County, Washington Robert Boruchowitz, Public Defender, King County Managers and Trial Lawyers, Office of Public Defence, King County
Location Subject Daniel Sattenberg, Chief of Staff, and development of public defender lawyers and staff, judicial views on service provided by public defence services King County Prosecutor"s Office Judges from King County Criminal Courts Winnipeg Gerry McNeilly, Executive Director, Setting up and running publicly funded criminal defence services, different models of public defence services, ensuring quality services for defendants, monitoring mechanisms, training and development of public defender lawyers and staff, judicial views on service provided by public defence services, operation of civil courts, Narey reforms, legal aid expenditure and control, public service agreements, policy co-ordination across Government Legal Aid Manitoba Managers and Trial Attorneys, Legal Aid Manitoba Judge Judith Webster, senior criminal judge, Provincial Court Gord Mackintosh, Manitoba Minister of Justice and Attorney General Ottawa Morris Rosenberg, Federal Deputy Setting up and running publicly funded criminal defence services, different models of public defence services, ensuring quality services for defendants, monitoring mechanisms, training and development of public defender lawyers and staff, implementation of the Human Rights Act, constitutional reform, judicial appointments policy, Law Commission, policy research projects Minister of Justice Janice Charette, Senior Assistant Deputy Minister Officials from Department of Justice, from legal aid research division, judicial affairs division, research and statistics division Senator Gerald Beaudoin Mr. John Godfrey MP Elizabeth Mulholland, Senior Adviser, Prime Minister's Office Professor Errol Mendes, University of Ottawa