Accredited official statistics

Legal aid statistics: January to March 2019

Activity in the legal aid system for England and Wales, including criminal and civil legal aid, family mediation, providers of legal aid, client characteristics and Central Funds payments.

• From: Ministry of Justice
• Published: 27 June 2019
• Last updated: 16 October 2019
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  1. 16 October 2019

     Criminal Legal aid statistics England and Wales provider and area data to March 2019 is updated to remove duplicate interim claims in LGFS

  2. 26 September 2019

     Civil Legal aid statistics England and Wales provider and area data to March 2019 revised due to incorrect classifying a portion of civil representation costs met by the opponent as being met by the LAA.

  3. 30 July 2019

     Since publication on the 27th June 2019 it has been noted that two columns were incorrectly labelled in tables 9.3 and 9.4. The columns affected were those within 'Other non family' and these have now been corrected as at 30th July 2019.

  4. 18 July 2019

     Table 1.0: Overall annual legal aid expenditure (£m) is updated with 2018-19 prices

  5. 27 June 2019

     First published.

Documents

Legal aid statistics England and Wales bulletin January to March 2019

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Legal aid statistics England and Wales tables January to March 2019

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Legal aid statistics England and Wales main data January to March 2019

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Legal aid statistics England and Wales detailed civil data January to March 2019

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Legal aid statistics England and Wales client diversity data to March 2019

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Criminal Legal aid statistics England and Wales provider and area data to March 2019

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Civil Legal aid statistics England and Wales provider and area data to March 2019

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Details

The quarterly legal aid statistics bulletin presents statistics on the legal aid scheme administered by the Legal Aid Agency (LAA) for England and Wales. This edition comprises the first release of statistics for the three month period from January to March 2019 and also provides the latest statement of figures for all earlier periods. These statistics are derived from data held by LAA, produced by LAA’s statistics team and published by the Ministry of Justice (MOJ).

Pre-release

Pre-release access of up to 24 hours is granted to the following persons:

Ministry of Justice

Secretary of State for Justice, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for the Courts and Legal Aid, Permanent Secretary, Director of Analytical Services, Deputy Director Legal Aid Policy, Chief Statistician, Legal Aid Policy Officials (2), Press Officers (3), Special Advisors (2), Private secretaries (8), Head of Legal Aid Analysis

Legal Aid Agency

Chief Executive, Chief Executive’s office (1), Director of Finance & Digital, Deputy Director Planning, Performance and Change, Press Officers (2), Service Development Managers (2)