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Civil Judicial Statistics Scotland, 2010-11
8 December 2011
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Contents
• Background
• Current publication
• Results from current publication
• Dissemination
• Work going forward
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Background• Publication suspended after
Civil Judicial Statistics Scotland 2002 – lack of precision in the definition of data items – inconsistent across the 49 sheriff courts – data unreliable and potentially misleading
• Scottish Court Service and SG worked together to address data quality issues
• Publication reinstated in December 2010– Improved data quality– Consistent data recording– 2010 publication contained 2008-09 and 2009-10 data
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2010-11 publication - What is different?
• Thematic layout and improved sign posting• Increased use of contextual information:
– Results from Scottish Crime and Justice Survey included • (2009-10 results, 2010-11 results published 1/11/10)
– Scottish Legal Aid– Mid-year population estimates – Court structure diagram
• Extra tables:– Supplementary time series tables (2008-09 to 2010-11)
published alongside publication– Interactive dataset published
• Consultation released with publication
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Presentation issues addressed
• Accessibility requirements– Colour scheme chosen to maximise
accessibility – Text now left-aligned rather than justified– Publication made available as a Word file
• Improved presentation– Shading added to tables– Charts and diagrams added
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Court of Session – 2010-11
• Court of Session– 5,176 cases initiated
(down 16 per cent)
– 4,291 cases disposed of
(down 1 per cent)
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Sheriff courts – 2010-11
• Sheriff Courts– 92,308 cases initiated
(down 17 per cent)
– 87,504 cases disposed of
(down 17 per cent)0
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Breakdown by case type
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Differences across SheriffdomsNumber of cases initiated in 2010-11 per 1,000 population
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Islands
Tayside, Centraland Fife
Lothian andBorders
North Strathclyde SouthStrathclyde,
Dumfries andGalloway
Glasgow andStrathkelvin
Sheriffdom
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Legal Aid: 2010-11• Civil legal aid spending in the Court of
Session was £8.94m, an increase of 3 per cent since 2009-10
• Civil legal aid spending in the sheriff courts was £29.8m, an increase of 15 per cent since 2009-10
• The number of grants for legal aid has increased over the past three years due to the impact of the recession
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Dissemination strategy
• E-mail notification went out to ScotStat users
• Statistical news release published on SG website
• Two twitter announcements on @SGJusticeAnalys went out with publication
• Presenting to internal and external colleagues, including Justice Analytical Services user day
• Picked up by various groups
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Going forward?
• Collecting responses from users
• More contextual information
• Include results from other surveys and data collections
• Improved data – Working with the SCS
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Ordinary procedure cases
• The number of ordinary procedure cases has continued to fall in 2010-11
• Largest drop in ordinary cause cases, but little change in the number of commercial and family cases initiated 0
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Overview of civil courts
• Court of Session - highest civil court in Scotland
• Sheriff Courts - local courts, dealing with both criminal and civil business, as well as commissary work
• Justice of the Peace (JP) courts - local courts, dealing with lower-level criminal and civil cases
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• Court of Session based in Edinburgh
• 49 sheriff courts across Scotland, grouped into six sheriffdoms
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Differences across sheriffdoms
• Fewer cases were initiated and disposed in each sheriffdom in 2010-11– Largest fall in Lothian and Borders (24% fewer cases
initiated, 24% fewer cases disposed)– Smallest change in cases initiated seen in Grampian,
Highlands and Islands (down 12%)– Smallest change in cases disposed seen in North
Strathclyde (down 9%)
• Glasgow and Strathkelvin has dealt with the most cases per 1,000 population, with around 30% more than any other sheriffdom
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Debt cases
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Ordinary cause Commercial Summary cause Small claim
• The number of debt cases initiated and disposed of continued to fall across all procedural levels of the sheriff courts
• One possible reason for this is the economic downturn
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Repossession cases• Ordinary cause cases
initiated down by almost half - due to new legislation
• Smaller fall in disposed cases partly due to RBS vs Wilson judgment
• The fall in summary cause cases is thought to be due to a change in the way that some local authorities deal with rent arrears
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Family cases 2010-11
• Almost all family cases are raised in the sheriff courts
• Family cases account for 16 per cent of cases initiated in the sheriff courts
• Over three-quarters of cases initiated are for divorce or dissolution of a civil partnership
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Personal Injury• Personal injury cases make up more than half of the
cases processed in the Court of Session– New ruling on pleural plaques released after publication sent to
publishers
• Most personal injury cases are for something other than an asbestos-related condition or clinical negligence
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Asbestos Clinical Negligence Other
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Commissary
• Ordinary estate figures for 2010-11 similar to those for 2008-09
• Number of small estates confirmed continues to fall
Ordinary Estate Small Estate
Confirmed Average Confirmed Average
2008-09 21,823 £204,000 4,161 £16,300
2009-10 20,537 £197,000 2,881 £18,500
2010-11 21,038 £203,000 2,553 £19,100
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Scottish Crime and Justice Survey
• 28% of respondents had experienced at least one civil law problem in the last three years
• 49% of those who had experienced a problem had solved that problem - 7% had given up trying, while 6% were not doing anything towards solving the problem
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2010-11 publication
• Published on 25 October 2011
• Based on the 2009-10 publication
• Several changes and improvements...