Skip to main content

Legal Aid Certificates

Volume 83: debated on Friday 19 July 1985

The text on this page has been created from Hansard archive content, it may contain typographical errors.

asked the Attorney-General, pursuant to his answer to the hon. Member for Belfast, South on 11 July about legal aid certificates, what was the cost to public funds of the certificates issued in the five-year period 1980 to 1985 in cases alleging medical negligence.

The information requested by the hon. Gentleman is not readily available because the cases involved may not be concluded for a number of years. However, the cost to the legal aid fund of cases alleging medical negligence which were concluded, reported and paid in the past five years is as follows:

Total cases concludedCost to Legal Aid Fund
1980–812013,189·70
1981–82224,870·33
1982–832630,781·71
1983–843430,200·85
1984–854632,432·59

asked the Attorney-General, pursuant to his answer to the hon. Member for Belfast, South on 11 July about legal aid certificates, in how many cases in which the outcome was a withdrawal the judge asked for or directed that the case should be withdrawn.

The statistics requested by the hon. Gentleman are not readily available and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.