AQW 43653/11-15

Ms Claire Sugden
Independent
East Londonderry

Tabled Date: 12/03/2015
Answered On Date: 26/03/2015
Priority Written: No

Question:
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.

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.