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Case Processing Financial Year 2011/12

Case Processing Financial Year 2011/2012

Statistics on Case Processing April 2011 to September 2011

 

Reports Received

 

Criminal Reports

141,487

Death Reports

5,896

Total Reports Received

147,383

   

Non-Court Disposals

 

No Action

15,091

Warnings

5,526

Conditional Offers of Fixed Penalties Paid

10,300

Fiscal Fines Paid or deemed Accepted

20,960

Compensation Orders Paid or deemed Accepted

600

Combined Fiscal Fines/Compensation Orders

Paid or deemed Accepted

1,393

Other Non-Court Disposals

3,776

Total Non-Court Disposals

57.646

   

No Further Action

 

Total No Further Action (1)

14,012

   

Court Disposals

 

District Court:

 

Pleas (2)

17,242

Trials (3)

1,011

Total District Court Disposals

18,253

Sheriff Summary (4)

 

Pleas (2)

27,013

Trials (3)

2,350

Total Sheriff Summary Disposals

29,363

Sheriff and Jury:

 

Pleas (2)

1,701

Trials (3)

503

Total Sheriff and Jury Disposals

2,204

High Court:

 

Pleas (2)

161

Trials (3)

161

Total High Court Disposals

322

Total Court Disposals

50,142

   

Total Disposals

121,800

 

1 No Further Action = Cases which were closed after proceedings had been commenced or attempted (e.g. cases which were closed because the accused died, the accused could not be traced, a key witness was not available, etc.)

2 Pleas = Cases which were disposed of at court without any evidence being led.

3 Trials = Cases where some or all of the evidence was led.

4 Sheriff Summary cases include cases dealt with in the Stipendiary Magistrate's Court in Glasgow.

5 Total disposals will not equal total criminal cases received as some cases against the same accused will be linked and taken forward as one case. There is also a time lag between receipt of a case and final disposal so that, for example, some cases received in 2010-2011 will not have resulted in a disposal until 2011-2012.