The Public Defence Solicitors' Office: an evaluation

Peter Duff, Tamara Goriely, Paul McCrone, Martin Knapp, Alistair Henry, Becki Lancaster (2002)

Please note: this is a legacy publication from CPEC (formely PSSRU at LSE).

Scots Law Times 23 183-186

Abstract

The Public Defence Solicitors' Office has been a controversial experiment. In this article the authors summarise the results of their into the performance of the PDSO as compared with similar cases conducted by private practitioners. They conclude that