HC Deb 14 February 2002 vol 380 cc619-20W
Mrs. Curtis-Thomas

To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department if he will list the reports produced by the Lord Chancellor's Department which relate to the criminal justice system since 1978. [35966]

Mr. Wills

The information requested is not held centrally within the Lord Chancellor's Department and can be supplied only at disproportionate cost. However, research reports relating to the criminal justice system that have been commissioned and published by LCD Research Secretariat since it was established in 1996 are listed:

  • February 2000—"Factors affecting the decision to apply for silk and judicial office", K. Malleson and F. Banda.
  • March 2000—"The effects on magistrates of learning that the defendant has a previous conviction", S. Lloyd-Bostock.
  • April 1999—'"Reducing delay in the criminal justice system: the views of defence lawyers", L. Bridges and M. Jacobs.
  • May 1999—"An empirical analysis of standard fees in magistrates' court criminal cases", A. Gray, P. Fenn and N. Rickman.
  • February 1997—"Delay in the criminal justice system", S. Choongh.
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  • June 1997—"Judicial appointments commissions: the European and North American experience and the possible implications for the United Kingdom", C. Thomas and K. Malleson.
  • September 1997—"Expenditure on legal services", M. Hope, LCD economist (review paper).
  • November 1997—"Ethnic monitoring of defendants appearing at Leicester magistrates' court in 1995", Home Office and Professor Philip Bean.