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Solicitor-General

Answer

Mrs. Curtis-Thomas: To ask the Solicitor-General what percentage of time was spent by senior lawyers in (a) administration and management and (b) considering cases and advocacy in the latest year for which figures are available. [35949] The Solicitor-General: [holding answer 14 February 2002]: The CPS does not collect data on the time individual senior lawyers spend on administrative and management functions and on file review and advocacy duties. The CPS is implementing the recommendations of Sir Iain Glidewell in his review of the CPS published in 1998 and is well advanced in setting up a new organisational structure based on Criminal Justice Units and Trial Units. A senior lawyer supported by a business manager heads each of these operational units. This mirrors the relationship at area level between the Chief Crown Prosecutor and the Area Business Manager, and at national level between the Director of Public Prosecutions and the Chief Executive. The role of the business manager is to manage the unit's administrative and business processes, thus releasing the senior lawyer to focus on a personal portfolio of the more serious cases, leadership, criminal justice liaison and line management of the prosecutors in the unit.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

35949; 380 c1330-1W;380 c1332-3W

Session

2001-02

Subjects

Criminal proceedings Administration Bureaucracy Crown Prosecution Service Advocacy Legal profession Management Working hours

Link

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