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Prosecutions

Answer

The numbers of defendants proceeded against at magistrates courts in the Wrexham Maelor local justice area, in Wales, and in England from 2007 to 2011 can be viewed in the following table:

Number of defendants proceeded against at magistrates courts, for all offences, within Wrexham Maelor local justice area, England and Wales, 2007-111, 2
Area	2007	20083	2009	2010	2011
England and Wales	1,732,506	1,640,023	1,694,410	1,653,190	1,558,965
England	1,621,436	1,547,699	1,591,399	1,552,380	1,462,775
Wales	111,070	92,324	103,011	100,810	96,190
Of which:
Wrexham Maelor local justice area	5,682	5,648	5,769	5,376	4,367
1 The figures given in the table on court proceedings relate to persons for whom these offences were the principal offences for which they were dealt with. When a defendant has been found guilty of two or more offences it is the offence for which the heaviest penalty is imposed. Where the same disposal is imposed for two or more offences, the offence selected is the offence for which the statutory maximum penalty is the most severe. 2 Every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. However, it is important to note that these data have been extracted from large administrative data systems generated by the courts and police forces. As a consequence, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are taken into account when those data are used. 3 Excludes data for Cardiff magistrates court for April, July and August 2008. Source: Justice Statistics Analytical Services—Ministry of Justice.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

124016; 551 c832W

Session

2012-13

Subjects

Prosecutions Magistrates' courts Wales Wrexham

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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