Trials: Crown Court
(asked on 17th November 2020) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many trials have been completed in Crown courts in each year since 2008.
Crown Court trials which proceed on the planned date are recorded as effective. We do not record trials in the Crown courts under a category of completed.
Data showing effective trials from 2008 to 2019 can be found in the table below:
Volume of effective trials² in Crown Courts in England and Wales, annually 2008 - 2019
Year | Effective trials¹ Number |
2008 | 17,044 |
2009 | 17,899 |
2010 | 18,949 |
2011 | 19,077 |
2012 | 18,729 |
2013 | 17,238 |
2014 | 17,931 |
2015 | 19,493 |
2016 | 18,921 |
2017 | 17,607 |
2018 | 14,991 |
2019 | 12,100 |
Notes
¹ In the Crown Court, a trial is effective once a jury has been sworn in, regardless of whether they go on to reach a verdict.
² The total number of trials listed during the reporting periods indicated. Not all cases will go to trial, for the purposes of trial effectiveness we consider a ‘trial’ at the point of initial listing. A trial which goes ahead on the planned date and occurs is then considered as ‘effective’, a trial that is listed but does not go ahead is considered either cracked, ineffective or vacated as detailed in the supporting guidance document which is available here: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/criminal-court-statistics.
In addition, the most recent publication of the National Statistics series ‘Criminal Court Statistics Quarterly’ will provide the quarterly information to Q2 2020 at the below link:
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/criminal-court-statistics