<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><edm>
<id>4208</id>
<session>1991-92</session>
<number>651</number>
<title>Legal Aid In Magistrates Courts</title>
<proposer id="10260">Harriet Harman</proposer>
<date>1992-02-11</date>
<text>That this House notes with concern that lawyers and others involved in the day-to-day administration of criminal justice fear that proposals by the Lord Chancellor to introduce standard fees for magistrates' courts legal aid cases will lead to a significant reduction in the number of solicitors willing to undertake the work and will make it more difficult for solicitors to prepare cases thoroughly; believes that the administration of justice would be seriously impaired if those consequences came about; and believes that the proposals should not be implemented until the Royal Commission on Criminal Justice has had an opportunity to consider them and report.</text>
<topics>
</topics>
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	<signature>
		<mp id="10260">Harriet Harman</mp>
		<date>1992-02-11</date>
		<type>Proposed</type>
		<constituency>Peckham</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="21960">John Fraser</mp>
		<date>1992-02-11</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Norwood</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="21954">Anthony Grant</mp>
		<date>1992-02-11</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Cambridge South West</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="19735">Richard Alexander</mp>
		<date>1992-02-11</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Newark</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10052">Paul Boateng</mp>
		<date>1992-02-11</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Brent South</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10566">Gerry Steinberg</mp>
		<date>1992-02-12</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Durham, City of</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10026">Harry Barnes</mp>
		<date>1992-02-12</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>North East Derbyshire</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10252">Peter Hain</mp>
		<date>1992-02-12</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Neath</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10246">Win Griffiths</mp>
		<date>1992-02-12</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Bridgend</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10144">John Cummings</mp>
		<date>1992-02-12</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Easington</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10129">Frank Cook</mp>
		<date>1992-02-12</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Stockton North</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10462">Edward O'Hara</mp>
		<date>1992-02-12</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Knowsley South</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10556">Clive Soley</mp>
		<date>1992-02-12</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Hammersmith</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10550">John Smith</mp>
		<date>1992-02-12</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Vale of Glamorgan</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="17366">Andrew Faulds</mp>
		<date>1992-02-13</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Warley East</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10138">Tom Cox</mp>
		<date>1992-02-13</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Tooting</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10118">David Clelland</mp>
		<date>1992-02-13</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Tyne Bridge</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10089">Ronnie Campbell</mp>
		<date>1992-02-13</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Blyth Valley</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10436">Austin Mitchell</mp>
		<date>1992-02-13</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Great Grimsby</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10359">Terry Lewis</mp>
		<date>1992-02-13</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Worsley</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="22158">Roy Hughes</mp>
		<date>1992-02-13</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Newport East</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="22114">Robert Hughes</mp>
		<date>1992-02-13</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Aberdeen North</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10266">Sylvia Heal</mp>
		<date>1992-02-13</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Staffordshire Mid</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="22067">Peter Hardy</mp>
		<date>1992-02-13</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Wentworth</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="22608">Michael Welsh</mp>
		<date>1992-02-14</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Doncaster North</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10008">Graham Allen</mp>
		<date>1992-02-14</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Nottingham North</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10428">Alan Meale</mp>
		<date>1992-02-14</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Mansfield</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10305">Eric Illsley</mp>
		<date>1992-02-14</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Barnsley Central</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10592">Peter Temple-Morris</mp>
		<date>1992-02-17</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Leominster</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10028">John Battle</mp>
		<date>1992-02-17</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Leeds West</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10132">Robin Corbett</mp>
		<date>1992-02-17</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Birmingham, Erdington</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10059">Keith Bradley</mp>
		<date>1992-02-17</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Manchester, Withington</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="21734">David Knox</mp>
		<date>1992-02-17</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Staffordshire Moorlands</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="18656">Gordon Oakes</mp>
		<date>1992-02-18</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Halton</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10614">Keith Vaz</mp>
		<date>1992-02-18</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Leicester East</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="22634">Jack Thompson</mp>
		<date>1992-02-25</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Wansbeck</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10238">Tommy Graham</mp>
		<date>1992-02-27</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Renfrew West and Inverclyde</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10649">Audrey Wise</mp>
		<date>1992-03-03</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Preston</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10421">Eric Martlew</mp>
		<date>1992-03-03</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Carlisle</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="18287">Max Madden</mp>
		<date>1992-03-04</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Bradford West</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10607">Dennis Turner</mp>
		<date>1992-03-05</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Wolverhampton South East</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10534">Barry Sheerman</mp>
		<date>1992-03-09</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Huddersfield</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10090">Dale Campbell-Savours</mp>
		<date>1992-03-12</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Workington</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10123">Harry Cohen</mp>
		<date>1992-03-12</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Leyton</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10223">Bruce George</mp>
		<date>1992-03-12</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Walsall South</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
</signatures>
</edm>
