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Conditional Fees (Insurance)
Sir Nicholas Lyell: To ask the Minister of State, Lord Chancellor's Department, pursuant to his answer of 30 March 1999, Official Report, column 610, if he will publish such details of insurance products to support the use of conditional fees as are available to him. [81146]
Mr. Hoon: If the right hon. and learned Gentleman requires details of the products available, I suggest he approaches the providers of the insurance products. Those of which I am aware are:
- First Assist;
- Collegiate Insurance Brokers Ltd;
- Abbey Legal Protection;
- Amicus;
- Eastgate Assistance;
- Saturn Professional Risks Ltd;
- Litigation Protection Ltd; and
- Greystoke Legal Services.
Queen's Counsel
Mr. Dismore: To ask the Minister of State, Lord Chancellor's Department if he will make public the names of all applicants for silk during the assessment process of their applications; and if he will make a statement. [81500]
Mr. Hoon: My noble and learned Friend the Lord Chancellor has no plans to publish the names of all applicants for Queen's Counsel at any stage of the silk process.
Mr. Dismore: To ask the Minister of State, Lord Chancellor's Department if he will introduce fixed-term appointments for Queen's Counsel; and if he will make a statement. [81501]
Mr. Hoon: My noble and learned Friend the Lord Chancellor has no plans to introduce fixed term appointments for Queen's Counsel.
Convicted Murderers
Mr. Andrew George: To ask the Minister of State, Lord Chancellor's Department (1) how many cases there have been in the last 10 years in which convicted murderers who have themselves been victims of abuse by those they have murdered have (a) had their abusive experience taken into account as a mitigating circumstance and (b) not been given a custodial sentence; [80184]
- (2) how many female victims of alleged domestic abuse by their partners who have been prosecuted for murdering that partner have been (a) acquitted and (b) convicted within the last 10 years; and what range of custodial sentence they have been given. [80182]