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Case Processing Financial Year 2009/10

Case Processing Financial Year 2009/2010

Statistics on Case Processing April 2009 to September 2009

Reports Received

Criminal Reports

144,041

Death Reports

6,203

Total Reports Received

150,244

Non-Court Disposals

No Action

14,544

Warning Letters

7,398

Conditional Offers of Fixed Penalties Paid

8,934

Fiscal Fines

17,358

Compensation Orders

907

Combined Fiscal Fines/Compensation Orders

841

Other Non-Court Disposals

4,437

Total Non-Court Disposals

54,421

No Further Action

Total No Further Action (1)

15,697

Court Disposals

District Court:

Pleas (2)

20,502

Trials (3)

549

Total District Court Disposals

21,051

Sheriff Summary (4)

Pleas (2)

32,971

Trials (3)

2,376

Total Sheriff Summary Disposals

35,347

Sheriff and Jury:

Pleas (2)

1,707

Trials (3)

436

Total Sheriff and Jury Disposals

2,143

High Court:

Pleas (2)

165

Trials (3)

137

Total High Court Disposals

302

Total Court Disposals

58,843

Total Disposals

128,961



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 2008-2009 will not have resulted in a disposal until 2009-2010.

Page updated: Thursday, January 7, 2010