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  • LE 11986-2002Lord Chancellor's Department: Planning and Communications Division and predecessors and The Court Service: Resources and Planning Division: Judicial Statistics Database

    The Judicial Statistics datasets are a collection of workload statistics in the Crown and County courts of England and Wales dating from 1986. The datasets contain records from 1986 to early 1998. The data includes routine monthly returns from courts throughout England and Wales for which the Lord Chancellor is responsible, plus some sampler information taken at intervals throughout the time scale. The dataset is the latest method of storage and retrieval of the judicial statistics.

    It was intended for the first accession (which took place in 1998) to contain only data from 1986-1996, the latter being the most recent 'closed' year (the department may make updates and corrections to the data during the year following the end of the reporting period). Subsequent annual accessions are for years in which processing by the department has been completed, commencing with 1997. In fact the tables in the first dataset also contain data input during 1997 and early 1998.

    The datasets in this series are available to download. Links to individual datasets can be found at piece level.