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Lord Chancellors Dept

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Mr. Garnier: To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department how many official visits the hon. Member for Wyre Forest (Mr. Lock) has paid to the United States since his appointment as Parliamentary Secretary; what was the location of each visit; who he met; and what subjects were discussed. [110911] Mr. Lock: I have made one visit to the United States of America since my appointment as Parliamentary Secretary, where I had the meetings set out in the following table. I also visited Winnipeg and Ottawa, and details of the meetings I held there are also set out in the table. The purpose of my visit was to meet experienced practitioners in the USA and Canada to discuss the successful operation of criminal defence services, and the use of salaried defence advocates. This forms part of the policy making process for the development of the Criminal Defence Service in England and Wales, the first stage of which will be implemented in October 2000. I will be consulting with professional bodies and other interested parties on the detail of our proposals in the coming months. _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Location Subject Los Angeles Michael Judge, Public Defender Robert Kalunian, Assistant Public Setting up and running publicly funded criminal defence Defender Adolfo Lara, Assistant Public Defender Public Defender services, different models of public defence services, ensuring Office Management Board Penny Van Bogaert, Assistant Deputy Public quality services for defendants, monitoring mechanisms, training Defender (Resources) Trial lawyers, Paralegals and Investigators and development of public defender lawyers and staff, attending from the Public Defender's Office court hearings Portland, Oregon Ann Christian, Oregon State Judicial Department, Head of Indigent Setting up and running publicly funded criminal defence Defence Services James Hennings, Metropolitan Public Defender, services, different models of public defence services, ensuring Portland Ross Shepard, Lane County Public Defender Managers and quality services for defendants, monitoring mechanisms, training Trial Lawyers, Multnomah County Defender Office Judge Frantz, and development of public defender lawyers and staff, attending Principal Criminal Judge, Portland Ron Williams, Attorney in court hearings, judicial views on service provided by public charge of drug treatment programme, Metropolitan Public Defender's defence services Office, Portland Group of Private Attorneys contracted to do public defence work Seattle James Crane, Office of Public Defence, King County, Washington Setting up and running publicly funded criminal defence Robert Boruchowitz, Public Defender, King County Managers and services, different models of public defence services, ensuring Trial Lawyers, Office of Public Defence, King County Daniel quality services for defendants, monitoring mechanisms, training Sattenberg, Chief of Staff, King County Prosecutor's Office Judges and development of public defender lawyers and staff, judicial from King County Criminal Courts views on service provided by public defence services Winnipeg Gerry McNeilly, Executive Director, Legal Aid Manitoba Managers Setting up and running publicly funded criminal defence and Trial Attorneys, Legal Aid Manitoba Judge Judith Webster, services, different models of public defence services, ensuring senior criminal judge, Provincial Court Gord Mackintosh, Manitoba quality services for defendants, monitoring mechanisms, training Minister of Justice and Attorney General and development of public defender lawyers and staff, judicial views on service provided by public defence services, operation of civil courts, Narey reforms, legal aid expenditure and control, public service agreements, policy co-ordination across Government Ottawa Morris Rosenberg, Federal Deputy Minister of Justice Janice Setting up and running publicly funded criminal defence Charette, Senior Assistant Deputy Minister Officials from services, different models of public defence services, ensuring Department of Justice, from legal aid research division, judicial quality services for defendants, monitoring mechanisms, training affairs division, research and statistics division Senator Gerald and development of public defender lawyers and staff, Beaudoin Mr. John Godfrey MP Elizabeth Mulholland, Senior Adviser, implementation of the Human Rights Act, constitutional reform, Prime Minister's Office Professor Errol Mendes, University of judicial appointments policy, Law Commission, policy research Ottawa projects _________________________________________________________________________________________________.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

110911; 345 c43-4W

Session

1999-00

Subjects

Criminal Defence Service Ministers USA Visits abroad Lock, David