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Statistics 2008-2009
Our Annual Report 2008-2009 contains statistics about legal aid applications, grants and costs. It also includes our audited accounts.
To streamline the report and reduce printing costs, this year we are publishing some of the statistical tables that we have, in the past, published in the main report, only on our website. You can read and download these tables from this page.
1. Key statistics - in PDF format or in Excel format
1.1 Initial applications for legal assistance
1.2 Grants of legal assistance
1.3 Total payments for administration and Legal Aid Fund
1.4 Number of cases paid
1.5 Total cost to the taxpayer of legal assistance
1.6 Average case cost
1.7 Payments made
2. Our performance - in PDF format or in Excel format
2.1 Headline targets and performance 2004-2009
2.2 Headline targets and performance
2.3 Corporate targets
2.4 Advice and assistance applications
2.5 Civil legal aid applications
2.6 Criminal legal aid applications
2.7 Children's legal aid applications
3. Civil legal assistance - in PDF format or in Excel format
3.1 Intimations of civil advice and assistance and ABWOR by subject matter
3.2 Civil legal aid applications
3.3 Civil legal aid grants (including grants on review)
3.4 Accounts paid and average case costs - civil advice and assistance and ABWOR
3.5 Accounts paid and average case costs - civil legal aid
3.6 Amounts recovered by the Legal Aid Fund
3.7 Intimations of civil advice and assistance and ABWOR by gender
3.8 Increases in limit of authorised expenditure of civil advice and assistance and ABWOR
3.9 Disposal of applications under regulation 16(3) (hardship provisions) of the Advice and Assistance (Scotland) Regulations 1996
3.10 Intimations of steps taken under regulation 18(1)(a) and certificates granted under regulation 18(1)(b) of the Civil Legal Aid (Scotland) Regulations 2002 (legal aid in matters of special urgency)
3.11 Analysis of full applications where legal aid was refused or abandoned at first instance
3.12 Disposal of applications for review of decision to refuse legal aid
3.13 Applications for civil legal aid and decisions by gender
3.14 Applications for civil legal aid and decisions by pursuer/defender
3.15 Analysis of contributions payable by assisted persons
3.16 Sanctions in civil legal aid cases
3.17 Applications for extensions of grants of civil legal aid
3.18 Applications for change of solicitor in civil legal cases
3.19 Accounts paid under special urgency (whereby in certain circumstances work carried out where legal aid is not subsequently granted, is paid for out of the fund)
4. Criminal legal assistance - in PDF format or in Excel format (Note these figures restated Sept 2010)
4.1 Intimations of criminal advice and assistance by subject matter
4.2 Intimations of criminal ABWOR by subject matter
4.3 Applications to the Board for summary criminal legal aid
4.4 Grants by the Board of summary criminal legal aid
4.5 Grants of legal aid by the courts in summary proceedings under Legal Aid (Scotland) Act 1986 section 23(1)(b)
4.6 Intimations of automatic legal aid for other courts and under section 22(1)(da-dd)
4.7 Grants of legal aid by the courts in solemn proceedings
4.8 Criminal appeals - applications
4.9 Accounts paid and average case costs - criminal advice and assistance and ABWOR
4.10 Duty solicitor - accounts
4.11 Accounts paid and average case costs - criminal legal aid
4.12 Increases in limit of authorised expenditure of criminal advice and assistance
4.13 Refusals of summary criminal legal aid at first instance by reason for refusal
4.14 Disposal of applications for review of decision to refuse summary criminal legal aid
4.15 Intimations of criminal advice and assistance and ABWOR and applications for criminal legal aid decisions by gender
4.16 Sanctions in criminal legal aid cases
4.17 Applications for exceptional status in fixed payment cases
4.18 Applications under regulation 15 of the Criminal Legal Aid (Scotland) Regulations 1996 (matters of special urgency)
4.19 Requests for change of solicitor in criminal legal aid cases
4.20 Accounts paid and average case costs - criminal legal aid
5. Children's legal assistance - in PDF format or in Excel format
5.1 Intimations of children's advice and assistance
5.2 Grants of legal aid by the courts under the Children (Scotland) Act 1995
5.3 Applications to the Board in respect of appeals to the Court of Session and the Sheriff Principal
5.4 Accounts paid and average case costs - children's advice and assistance
5.5 Analysis of accounts paid and average case costs - children's legal aid
5.6 Intimations of children's advice and assistance by gender
5.7 Increases in limit of authorised expenditure of children's advice and assistance
5.8 Sanctions in children's legal aid cases
5.9 Sanctions for appeals
6. Contempt of court legal assistance - in PDF format or in Excel format
6.1 Intimations of contempt of court advice and assistance and ABWOR
6.2 Grants of legal aid by the courts for contempt of court proceedings
6.3 Analysis of accounts paid and average case costs - contempt of court advice and assistance and ABWOR
6.4 Analysis of accounts paid and average case costs - contempt of court legal aid
7. Analysis of payments - in PDF format or in Excel format
7.1 Legal assistance expenditure
7.2 Analysis of payments for all categories
8. PDSO and Part V - in PDF format or in Excel format
About the Public Defence Solicitors' Office (PDSO)
8.1 PDSO expenditure
8.2 PDSO Costs and volumes
Part V
8.3 Part V Costs and volumes
9. Other information - in PDF format or in Excel format
9.1 Complaints and reviews received and cleared
9.2 Complaints cleared within target
9.3 Cleared complaints considered justified
9.4 Complaints considered by the Scottish Public Services Ombudsman (SPSO)
Requests under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002
9.5 Information requests and decisions (FOI)
9.6 Review of refusal notices
9.7 Appeals to the Scottish Information Commissioner
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