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Magistrates Courts

Volume 228: debated on Monday 12 July 1993

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32.

To ask the Attorney-General if he will make a statement about the proportion of Crown Prosecution Service prosecutions in the magistrates courts which are successful.

For the year ending 31 March 1993, 97ยท6 per cent. of cases which proceeded to a hearing in the magistrates court resulted in either a guilty plea or a conviction.