Activity Based Costings

Annex 3 - Costs per defendant finalised based on ABC salary data, September 2008

Finalisation category	Cost £ Lawyer	Cost £ DCW	Cost £ Admin	Cost £ Total
Guilty summary	31.54	8.00	17.05	55.53
Guilty either way	50.45	9.28	22.49	82.22
Discharged committal	133.48	11.60	86.70	231.78
Prosecution dropped	150.79	9.94	62.17	222.90
Write off	29.26	4.68	13.60	47.54
Other proceedings	18.58	4.02	6.41	29.01
Trial - summary	275.04	12.05	90.39	377.47
Trial - either way	361.83	13.27	102.58	477.69
Pre charge decision - Charge	34.11	0.05	0.37	34.53
Pre charge decision - Caution	19.48	0.05	0.37	19.90
Pre charge decision - NFA	37.85	0.06	0.56	38.46
Pre charge decision - Admin Finalised	30.93	0.93	6.11	37.97
Youth case (additional to PI above)	12.32	0.81	2.52	15.65
"Late guilty" (additional to PI above)	148.21	0	53.37	201.58

Finalisation category	Cost £ Lawyer	Cost £ Caseworker	Cost £ Admin	Cost £ Total
Timeons guilty	471.87	152.36	110.85	735.08
Late guilty	697.93	247.88	167.68	1113.48
Not guilty contest	741.84	631.05	234.09	1606.99
Guilty / Not guilty contest	741.32	631.76	230.70	1603.78
Prosecution dropped	512.47	210.82	155.78	879.08
Write off	182.96	122.46	65.30	370.72
Appeals	130.36	86.99	56.66	274.01
Committal for sentence	83.92	47.94	50.44	182.29