Government Publishes Latest Criminal Court Statistics

The Government has published the latest quarterly report on criminal court statistics.

Key highlights are as follows:

• Magistrates' Court: the number of cases received and disposed of have stabilise following previous falls.
• Crown Court: increase in the number of cases received, decrease in cases disposed of.
• Crown Court: increase in the number of cases outstanding.
• Crown Court: average waiting times continue to fall.
• Magistrates' Court: increase in time from offence to completion.
• Magistrates' Court: failure to appear warrant statistics published for the first time.
• Magistrates' Court: proportion of cases dealt with by the single justice procedure remains steady.
• Increase in the number of interpreter requests.

You can download the full report here.