Departmental Projects (Hansard, 15 January 2001)

§ Mr. Lock

Total expenditure on projects by consultants for the Lord Chancellor's Department from May 1997 to March 2000 was £2,444,651. The total costs incurred on 77W projects carried out by independent academic researchers from May 1997 to December 2000 was £126,595 and by university departments was £3,560,683. These projects are listed below.

Projects where external consultants contracted—1 April 1997 to 31 March 2000

Benchmark costs for civil cases
Community Legal Service website supply/operation
Conduct disability access audits and produce a template
Co-ordination of Computerisation in the Criminal Justice System
Cost and Performance in the Trial Process
Court Service Compliance
Design job holder and manager training—new appraisal system
Design of leadership development programme
Develop a business case for JUROR project
Developing Resource Accounting and Budgeting
Developing systems for MIDAS/Magistrates Courts Grant Spreadsheet
Development of a website for Magistrates Court Service Inspectorate
Development of a corporate approach—Magistrates Courts Committees
Devise a system to streamline Magistrates Courts Grants payments
Draft framework for Implementation of EDM/ER
Feasibility study on CASEMAN extension
Function point analysis for Information Services Division
GAP analysis
Human Rights Act Implementation in Magistrates Courts
Immigration Appellate Authority—expansion project
Implementation of the Court Service Change Programme
Information Technology strategy for the civil justice system
Investigation into re-housing the Public Trust Office
IT projects on transforming the Crown Court Initiative
IT Security for the LIBRA project
Literature review on the economics of marriage UK/USA
OASIS—Purchase and implementation of network
Output based specification for the provision of a Management Information Service
Personnel Officer function review
Pilot of 360 degree feedback appraisal system
Plea and Directions Hearings Evaluation
Refurbishment of Millbank Tower for LCD use
Research to assess profitability of Conditional Fee Arrangements
Research for ACLEC for Immigration Asylum systems in other jurisdictions
Research for ACLEC on Conditional Fees
Research on Ancillary Relief Pilot Project
Research on County court inquiries
Research on Cross-jurisdictional issues in case management
Research: comparison of Bar income with other publicly funded professionals
Review of 1st year SLA operating effectives
Review of Personnel Operations
Review on efficiency of court amalgamation
Staff Opinion Survey
Statute Law Database investigations
Study of services to Litigants in Person at Citizens Advice Bureau in the Royal Courts of Justice
Use of non legally qualified claims assessors and employment advisers
Western Circuit Audit
Year 2000 data change—review of business impact
Year 2000 database compliance/upgrades
Year 2000 programme review

Projects where independent academics contracted—1 May 1997 to 31 December 2000

Community Legal Service: Developing joined-up solutions
Contracting for civil litigation: modelling volumes, access and regional distributions for certified non-matrimonial civil legal aid
IT Strategy for the Civil Justice System
Review of the Law Relating to Profits from Crime
Review Papers on Marriage—causes, and ways of preventing marital breakdown
The Division of Marital Assets Following Divorce With Particular Reference to Pensions

Projects where Universities contracted—1 May 1997 to 31 December 2000

A Training Needs Analysis for all those Sitting on Tribunals
ADR in the Court of Appeal
Alternative Dispute Resolution in Commercial Cases
Ancillary Relief Pilot Study
Applicability to other tribunals and court jurisdictions of principals/practice in the London Parking Appeals Service
Case Management and Listing Research
Civil Justice Audit
Civil legal aid for children
Community Legal Service: Pioneer Community Legal Service Partnerships
Contracting For Legal Services With Different Cost Rules
Costing Fast Track Procedures Through Hypothetical Case Studies
County court baseline data
Criminal Justice Reform and the Organisation of Criminal Defence Services
Economic Impact of Law on Ancillary Relief
Economic Impact of the Quality of Legal Machinery
Empirical Analysis of Standard Fees in Magistrates Courts
Enforcement Review
Factors affecting the decision to apply for Silk/Judicial Office
Fast Track Simulation Pilot
Government Policies and Lawyers' Roles
Identifying Thresholds—Arrangements for contact in domestic violence and child welfare concerns
Impact of Conditional Fees on Personal Injury Cases
Impact of legal aid on litigants behaviour: an empirical analysis
Impact on Courts and the Administration of Justice of the Human Rights Act 1998
Information Meetings and associated Provisions with the Family Law Act 1996
Judicial Appointments in Continental Europe
Monitoring the Rise in the Small Claims Limit—2000
New public management and the administration of justice in the magistrates court
Professionalising Lay Justice: Effective Clerking in Family Proceedings
Race and the Courts—Ethnic Awareness in Public Family Law Cases
Race and the Courts—Perceptions of Unfairness and Lack of Trust
Race and the Courts—Possession Cases
Regional study of local authority and court processes in homelessness cases
Regulating Legal Services
Research for Legal Services Consultative Panel
Review of Bailiff Law
Use of Judicial Appointments Commissions: A Review of the US and Canadian Models.