LawLink NSW : 1999 Appendix 27

Appendix 27 - Court Statistics

Administrative Decisions Tribunal

General
Equal
Opportunity
Legal
Services
Community
Services
Retail
Leases
Appeals

Dismissed/no appearance/withdrawn
186
135
25
32
27
12

Orders made
168
16
24
0
6
8

Total
354
151
49
32
33
20

TIMELINESS (mths)

Age of oldest matter disposed of
13
47
80
40
12
10

Age of oldest matter pending
27
46
79
50
10
15

No. disposed of in < 6 mths
308
25
7
13
26
15

No. disposed of in < 12 mths
44
50
18
0
7
5

No. disposed of in > 12 mths
2
55
12
1
0
0

No. disposed of in > 2 yrs
0
21
12
18
0
0

Compensation Court and Dust Diseases Tribunal

1993/94
1994/95
1995/96
1996/97
1997/98
1998/99
1999/00

Compensation Court

Matters Registered
22489
26302
23364
18602
15855
17166
20459

Matters Disposed
19852
21990
23508
19661
17873
19680
20710

Matters at hand at 30 June
17083
21395
21251
20192
18174
15660
15409

Average delay (weeks)
39
39
39
38
45
42
42

Dust Diseases Tribunal

Matters Registered
367
169
207
202
227
179
256

Matters Disposed
141
191
179
222
219
237
222

Matters at hand at 30 June
449
427
455
435
443
385
419*

* As at 30 June 2000, 727 Cross Claims are on hand (filed in connection with initiating process)

District Court

Criminal

Sydney
1994/95
1995/96
1996/97
1997/98
1998/99
1999/00

Trials Registered
998
680
788
783
733
586

Trials Disposed
953
744
766
749
840
890

Matters on Hand
731
645
678
712
621
321

Sydney West	1994/95	1995/96	1996/97	1997/98	1998/99	1999/00
Trials Registered	1,096	680	946	1,121	790	617
Trials Disposed	1,009	744	872	1,048	1,139	833
Matters on Hand	519	645	572	854	503	290

Country	1994/95	1995/96	1996/97	1997/98	1998/99	1999/00
Trials Registered	1,224	1,149	1,116	1,276	1,121	1,012
Trials Disposed	1,021	1,062	864	1,099	1,286	1,130
Matters on Hand	767	777	1,008	1,195	1,016	891

New South Wales	1994/95	1995/96	1996/97	1997/98	1998/99	1999/00
Trials Registered	3,318	2,775	2,889	3,180	2,644	2,215
Trials Disposed	2,983	2,678	2,536	2,896	3,265	2,853
Matters on Hand	2,019	1,994	2,467	2,761	2,140	1,502

Compliance with Trial Time Standards

	112 Days				6 Months				12 Months				> 1 Year
	1996 /97	1997 /98	1998 /99	1999 /00	1996 /97	1997 /98	1998 /99	1999 /00	1996 /97	1997 /98	1998 /99	1999 /00	1996 /97	1997 /98	1998 /99	1999 /00
Sydney
Custody	61%	56%	52%	63%	21%	26%	33%	26%	14%	17%	13%	11%	4%	1%	2%	0%
Bail	28%	19%	12%	17%	21%	20%	14%	19%	21%	29%	28%	31%	30%	32%	45%	33%
Sydney West
Custody	45%	47%	45%	49%	27%	28%	29%	38%	22%	23%	23%	12%	5%	1%	2%	1%
Bail	22%	19%	14%	17%	17%	18%	16%	20%	35%	34%	34%	30%	26%	29%	36%	33%
Country
Custody	47%	41%	52%	54%	21%	29%	29%	26%	28%	26%	17%	19%	4%	3%	2%	2%
Bail	14%	11%	14%	13%	15%	14%	13%	12%	35%	37%	32%	28%	36%	38%	41%	46%
NSW
Custody	52%	48%	50%	55%	23%	28%	30%	29%	20%	22%	18%	14%	5%	2%	2%	1%

District Court
Civil
Sydney	1994/95	1995/96	1996/97	1997/98	1998/99	1999/00
Statements of Claim	8,876	7,601	6,451	7,432	6,642	8,837
Praecipes	4,335	*	*	*	*	*
Disposals	8,927	8,552	9,620	6,670	5,974	7,265
Pending	5,237	*10,222	*5,106	*6250	7,704	9,706
* New data collection procedures were introduced during 1995/96, since then pending has included all matters commenced, and not just those previously considered to be active. Also Praecipes for Trial were abandoned.
NB. Figures are adjusted on the basis of regular stocktakes undertaken at the Court's various venues, hence the inputs and outputs against the annual pending figures do not balance.
Sydney West	1994/95	1995/96	1996/97	1997/98	1998/99	1999/00
Statements of Claim	2,886	2,870	1,902	2,373	2,726	1,962
Praecipes	1,769	*	*	*	*	*
Disposals	2,731	2,329	2,847	2,617	2,699	2,294
Pending	1,481	*4,692	2,823	1,915	1,797	1,502
* New data collection procedures were introduced during 1995/96, since then pending has included all matters commenced, and not just those previously considered to be active. Also Praecipes for Trial were abandoned.
NB. Figures are adjusted on the basis of regular stocktakes undertaken at the Court's various venues, hence the inputs and outputs against the annual pending figures do not balance.
Country	1994/95	1995/96	1996/97	1997/98	1998/99	1999/00
Statements of Claim	4,640	4,261	2,513	4,242	5,279	3,927
Praecipes	3,164	*	*	*	*	*
Disposals	2,990	3,773	4,919	4,116	4,110	3,463
Pending	3,139	*6,835	*4,518	3,810	3,870	4,412
* New data collection procedures were introduced during 1995/96, since then pending has included all matters commenced, and not just those previously considered to be active. Also Praecipes for Trial were abandoned.
NB. Figures are adjusted on the basis of regular stocktakes undertaken at the Court's various venues, hence the inputs and outputs against the annual pending figures do not balance.
New South Wales	1994/95	1995/96	1996/97	1997/98	1998/99	1999/00
Statements of Claim	16,402	14,732	10,866	14,047	14,603	14,726
Praecipes	9,268	*	*	*	*	*
Disposals	14,648	14,654	17,386	13,403	12,783	13,022
Pending	9,857	*21,748	*12,447	11,975	13,371	15,620
* New data collection procedures were introduced during 1995/96, since then pending has included all matters commenced, and not just those previously considered to be active. Also Praecipes for Trial were abandoned.
NB. Figures are adjusted on the basis of regular stocktakes undertaken at the Court's various venues, hence the inputs and outputs against the annual pending figures do not balance.

Percentage Compliance Rate Within

12 Months

18 Months

24 Months

>24 Months

	97/8	98/9	99/0	97/8	98/9	99/0	97/8	98/9	99/0	97/8	98/9	99/0
Sydney	65%	44%	54%	27%	18%	25%	7%	6%	10%	1%	32%	11%
Sydney West	63%	58%	62%	29%	21%	23%	7%	7%	9%	1%	14%	6%
Country	64%	54%	54%	26%	23%	28%	9%	8%	9%	1%	15%	9%
NSW	64%	49%	56%	27%	20%	25%	8%	8%	9%	1%	23%	10%

NB. These figures relate to finalised case managed matters only. Case management commenced on 1 January 1996 and initially only included matters started after that date. From 1 January 1998, all remaining matters were absorbed into the case management program and are included in the subsequent statistics, regardless of when they commenced. This is the reason for some of the disparity in the figures.

Civil Median Time from Commencement to Finalisation

	1998/99	1999/2000
Sydney	13.4 months	11.4 months
Sydney West	10.9 months	10.4 months
Country	11.3 months	11.6 months
NSW	12.2 months	11.3 months

Industrial Relations Commission

	1997/98	1998/99	1999/00
Cases on Hand (as at 30 June)	5,501	4,458	4,369
Total Cases Filed	7,366	6,828	6,789
Total Cases Finalised	5,362	8,008	6,878

Median time (days) from commencement to finalisation

Industrial Disputes	111	124	133
Unfair Dismissals	106	114	96
Enterprise Agreements	22	24	22
Awards	32	49	84
Unfair Contracts	238	288	399
Appeals	174	205	200
Criminal Prosecutions	305	366	292

Total Cases Resolved

Industrial Disputes	896	971	963
Unfair Dismissals	2,847	4,795	3,518
Enterprise Agreements	310	410	349
Awards	625	836	1,165
Unfair Contracts	145	335	306
Appeals	95	115	106
Criminal Prosecutions	216	265	258

Land and Environment Court

	1994/95	1995/96	1996/97	1997/98	1998/99	1999/00
CLASS 1
Matters registered	1014	876	780	902	1020	1291
Matters disposed	993	1068	931	932	978	1269
Matters on hand (as at 30 June)	444	377	351	447	608	770
Median time from commencement to finalisation (months)	4	5	4	4	4	5
CLASS 2
Matters registered	271	181	212	238	182	46
Matters disposed	277	229	225	210	204	82
Matters on hand (as at 30 June)	132	105	113	163	163	129
Median time from commencement to finalisation (months)	3	5	2	3	3	3
CLASS 3
Matters registered	281	171	162	188	442	298
Matters disposed	366	256	166	266	313	368
Matters on hand (as at 30 June)	262	166	187	128	264	205
Median time from commencement to finalisation (months)	5	5	4	4	6	5
CLASS 4
Matters registered	255	280	321	314	246	98
Matters disposed	310	315	345	372	320	112
Matters on hand (as at 30 June)	105	144	193	198	182	177
Median time from commencement to finalisation (months)	4	4	3	5	5	5
CLASS 5
Maters registered	63	84	128	165	90	96
Matters disposed	66	75	121	157	106	143
Matters on hand (as at 30 June)	59	85	120	138	132	86
Median time from commencement to finalisation (months)	6	6	5	6	7	6
CLASS 6
Matters registered	*	*	2	1	0	1
Matters disposed	*	*	1	0	1	1
Matters on hand (as at 30 June)	*	*	2	1	0	0
Median time from commencement to finalisation (months)	*	*	6	6	6	6
CLASS 7
Matters registered	*	*	*	*	*	0
Matters disposed	*	*	*	*	*	0
Matters on hand (as at 30 June)	*	*	*	*	*	0
Median time from commencement to finalisation (months)	*	*	*	*	*	n.a

n.a. Note: Class 6 matters commenced in 1996/97. Class 7 matters commenced in 1999/00.

Class 1 - Environmental Planning and Protection Appeals Division.
Class 2 - Local Government and Miscellaneous Appeals Division.
Class 3 - Land Tenure, Valuation, Rating and Compensation Division.
Class 4 - Environmental Planning and Protection: Civil Enforcement.
Class 5 - Environmental Planning and Protection: Summary Criminal Enforcement.
Class 6 - Appeals from convictions relating to environmental offences (appeals from Magistrates in Local Court prosecutions for environmental offences).
Class 7- Other appeals relating to environmental offences (appeals from Magistrates in Local Court prosecutions for environmental offences - prosecutor).

Local Courts
	1992/93	1993/94	1994/95	1995/96	1996/97	1997/98	1998/99 1999/00
General Matters
New Matters	217,489	218,329	197,071	211,490	228,671	230,825	242,222244,988
Finalised Matters	218,237	221,571	199,345	210,783	229,528	232,303	242,513244,300
Matters on Hand (30 June)	20,768	18,587	19,779	20,496	22,309	24,378	25,14127,423
Children's Court (Criminal)
New Matters	18,481	20,097	21,625	21,778	24,320	23,339	20,89118,545
Finalised Matters	18,229	19,476	21,365	21,886	24,270	23,947	21,15620,059
Children's Court (Care)
New Matters	2,013	2,493	2,571	2,508	2,539	2,849	2,9443,236
Finalised Matters	1,979	2,426	2,615	2,468	2,379	2,572	2,8343,027
TOTAL, Children's Court Matters
New Matters	20,494	22,590	24,196	24,286	26,859	26,188	23,83521,781
Finalised Matters	20,208	21,902	23,980	24,354	26,649	26,519	23,99023,086
Matters on Hand (30 June)	2,658	3,163	3,226	3,038	3,430	4,009	3,9953,573
Family Law Matters
New Matters	14,299	14,285	14,836	13,111	11,974	12,303	11,36910,631
Finalised Matters	13,681	13,952	13,411	13,145	12,069	12,226	11,25210,644
Matters on Hand (30 June)	1,535	1,458	1,190	1,115	1,145	1,168	1,1771,088
Civil Claim, Small Claims
New Matters	n/a	n/a	n/a	8,703	8,425	7,572	7,4167,202
Finalised Matters	n/a	n/a	n/a	7,284	6,878	6,606	6,0005,547
Matters on Hand (30 June)	n/a	n/a	n/a	1,110	2,082	3,044	4,3205,673
Civil Claim, General Division
New Matters	n/a	n/a	n/a	5,222	5,091	5,095	4,7874,729
Finalised Matters	n/a	n/a	n/a	6,322	5,694	5,133	4,5194,473
Matters on Hand (30 June)	n/a	n/a	n/a	1,217	2,064	2,102	2,3792,584
TOTAL, Civil Claims Matters
New Matters	26,234	28,506	28,801	13,925	13,516	12,667	12,20511,931
Finalised Matters	27,850	30,100	31,827	13,606	12,572	11,739	10,51910,020
Matters on Hand (30 June)	2,922	3,032	3,006	2,327	4,146	5,146	6,7008,255
Statement of Claims	199,973	196,953	186,624	197,097	192,703	198,614	204,125175,390
LOCAL COURTS, ALL MATTERS
New Matters	278,516	283,710	264,904	262,812	281,020	281,983	289,631289,331
Finalised Matters	279,976	287,525	268,563	261,888	280,818	282,787	288,274288,050
Matters on Hand (30 June)	27,883	26,240	27,201	26,976	31,030	34,701	37,01340,339
Median waiting time (weeks)	13	11	10	11	13	13	1314

APPREHENDED VIOLENCE
	1992/93	1993/94	1994/95	1995/96	1996/97	1997/98 1998/99 1999/00
Applications issued
Personal Violence	n/a	n/a	9,563	10,227	11,750	13,84713,52614,021
Domestic Violence	n/a	n/a	21,634	23,879	27,707	25,82123,55522,392
Total	n/a	n/a	31,197	34,106	39,457	39,66837,08136,413
Apprehended Violence - Final Orders Made
Personal Violence	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/an/a7,402
Domestic Violence***	n/a	n/a	14,575	16,159	19,131	20,73518,71016,322
*** During 1994/95 - 1997/98, the number of Domestic Violence Final Orders Made included conditional bail orders and final orders made by court.
After Hours Justice Services
Telephone Interim Order Applications	n/a	n/a	1,305	3,181	5,166	9,761 10,141 10,464

Supreme Court

COMMON LAW DIVISION

Criminal List

	1994/95	1995/96	1996/97	1997/98	1998/99	1999/00
Matters registered	107	111	118	124	111	113
Matters completed	68	83	88	110	138	152
Matters on hand (as at 30 June)	136	117	147	162	134	121
Time from committal to date of trial (months, as at 30 June)
Custody	8	18	17	16	13	13
Bail	12	21	23	24	21	21

Civil List (Sydney Registry)

	1994/95	1995/96	1996/97	1997/98	1998/99	1999/00
Administrative Law
New filings	89	156	134	130	108	98
Disposals (court)	52	34	25	74	57	106
Matters on hand (as at 30 June)	134	156	192	178	127	75
Time from registration to finalisation (months, as at 30 June)	<12	<12	<12	5-6	7-8	8
Civil Matters
New filings	4,663	4,956	5,390	3,803	3,732	3,235
Disposals	1,629	2,100	2,170	4,386 1	1,375	3,913 2
Matters on hand (as at 30 June) 3	5,200	5,878	5,366	2,111	2,108	2,582
Time awaiting hearing (months, as at 30 June)
Holding List 4	4.75	6	7	1.9	1.7	1
Summons:
Matters registered	198	181	133	94	68	577
Matters completed	254	130	52	92	100	413
Matters on hand (as at 30 June)	175	199	280	282	249	396

Notes:
1 Includes proceedings transferred to the District Court following the commencement of the District Court Amendment Act 1997.
2 Includes inactive proceedings dismissed pursuant to Part 32A.
3 Excludes matters proceeding to default judgment, summons matters and 4,236 class action cases.
4 Measured from completion of case management to the first call-up for allocation of a hearing date.

EQUITY DIVISION

	1994/95	1995/96	1996/97	1997/98	1998/99	1999/00
Admiralty List
New filings	15	27	23	32	28	15
Disposals (court)	6 5	7	1	8	8	16
Matters on hand (as at 30 June)	9	15	16	22	19	14
Time from registration to finalisation (months, as at 30 June)	<12	<12	6-9	6-9	6-9	9
Equity List
New filings	4,252	3,528	3,973	4,262	4,027	4,303
Disposals 6	1,487	1,265	1,679	2,103	2,263	2,713
Matters on hand (as at 30 June) 7	643	537	537	512	412	326
Time from readiness to hearing (months, as at 30 June)
General list	15	6-12	13-16	12	12-14	9-10
Short matters	1-3	3-6	1-3	1-3	1-3	<1
Masters’ list	5-7	6-12	6-9	7-8	5-6	5
Commercial List
New filings	275	284	317	159	157	177
Disposals (court)	268	256	307	221	142	142
Matters on hand (as at 30 June)	171	199	209	147	162	197
Time from registration to finalisation (months, as at 30 June)	9	6-9	6-9	6-9	6-9	9
Construction List
New filings	93	59	71	62	55	40
Disposals (court)	97	45	56	78	47	47
Matters on hand (as at 30 June)	48	62	77	61	69	62
Time from registration to finalisation (months, as at 30 June)	9	6-9	6-9	6-9	6-9	9
Probate List
Applications filed	20,218	19,805	20,053	20,574	20,051	19,424
Grants made	22,377	20,728	21,131	21,936	21,811	22,058
Time to grant applications (days)	2	2	2	2	2	2

Notes:
5 This figure is incomplete because details of disposals are not available for 1994.
6 These are Registrar’s disposals only.
7 Represents cases that have been managed by the Registrar and are ready to be allocated a hearing before a Judge or Master. The total number of pending cases as at 30 June 2000 was 3321 (which includes cases that are currently before the Registrar for case management, inactive matters and finalised cases which remain “open” on the Court’s computer system).

COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEAL

	1994/95	1995/96	1996/97	1997/98	1998/99	1999/00
Appeals lodged	758	776	761	753	850	902
Appeals disposed	879	818	812	709	652	827
Matters on hand (as at 30 June)	568	526	475	519	699	773
Median delay from readiness to hearing (weeks, as at 30 June) 8	-	-	-	9.5	14	10

Notes:
8 Data on median delay was not available prior to 1997-98.

COURT OF APPEAL

	1994/95	1995/96	1996/97	1997/98	1998/99	1999/00
Appeals lodged	780	792	753	791	696	659
Appeals disposed	755	1,121	917	795	816	714
Matters on hand (as at 30 June)	1,230	924	713	709	622	567
Time to finalisation (months, as at 30 June) 9
General List 10	35	33.2	23.7	23-24	21-22	14
Other lists	-	-	-	10-16	7-8	6

Notes:
9 Prior to 1997/98 delay was measured from the time that readiness to proceed to hearing was established. From 1997/98 onward, delay was measured from lodgement of the notice of appeal.
10 Prior to 1996/97 the General List represented the majority of appeals to be heard (approximately 80% at June 1996). Since then the General List has been considerably reduced and represents approximately 25% of appeals to be heard.

COSTS ASSESSMENT SCHEME 11

	1995/96	1996/97	1997/98	1998/99	1999/00
Applications lodged	2,146	2,661	2,763	2,566	2,415
Applications assigned to assessors	-	-	2,852	2,527	2,359
Matters disposed	-	-	1,916	2,014	2,449
Matters on hand (as at 30 June)	-	-	-	-	198

Notes:
11 The Scheme commenced on 1 July 1994 and, from 1 July 1995, became the exclusive method of assessment of legal costs for most NSW jurisdictions. Limited details only are available for 1995/96 and 1996/97 because computerised information management reporting was not available during that period.

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information current as of: 13 February 2012

	General	Equal Opportunity	Legal Services	Community Services	Retail Leases	Appeals
Dismissed/no appearance/withdrawn	186	135	25	32	27	12
Orders made	168	16	24	0	6	8
Total	354	151	49	32	33	20

TIMELINESS (mths)
Age of oldest matter disposed of	13	47	80	40	12	10
Age of oldest matter pending	27	46	79	50	10	15

No. disposed of in < 6 mths	308	25	7	13	26	15
No. disposed of in < 12 mths	44	50	18	0	7	5
No. disposed of in > 12 mths	2	55	12	1	0	0
No. disposed of in > 2 yrs	0	21	12	18	0	0

District Court
Criminal
Sydney	1994/95	1995/96	1996/97	1997/98	1998/99	1999/00
Trials Registered	998	680	788	783	733	586
Trials Disposed	953	744	766	749	840	890
Matters on Hand	731	645	678	712	621	321