AQW 43653/11-15 Written question to the Minister of Justice

To ask the Minister of Justice to detail the number of individual cases in the Londonderry area, which required support through legal aid in order to access justice, in each of the last five years.

Asked by Claire Sugden MLA on 12 March 2015

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Tabled
12 March 2015
Answer due by
30 March 2015
Answered
26 March 201514 days after tabling
Department
Department of Justice
Priority question
No

Answer

The Northern Ireland Legal Services Commission’s case management system cannot isolate cases in the Londonderry area without a manual trawl of all the Certificates issued. Information in the form requested is therefore not readily available and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.

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