Case Statistics

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• Jury Cases - What are they?
• New Cases Statistics
• Statistics
• Areas of Law
• Court Codes

Jury Cases - What are they?

Until cases are noted up, we classify them as 'Jury' cases. Many more cases are published than we will be able, or we would want, to note up. In fact, most searches take place on the case name only, and Jury cases therefore have a clear and proper place within our system.

All new cases start as Jury cases, but we try now to make sure that all additions are reclassified within a few days. If they do appear as jury cases, it will not be for long.

We are reducing the number. We have a long way to go. One thing we are doing is to transfer cases into the area of law, without analysing the case fully. To some extent, we will then rely upon readers to identify which cases have some significance, by asking for the case to be further upgraded.

The table below shows the number of 'Jury' cases in the system and how they have been reduced in number. The number does go up and down as some external sites suddenly add large numbers of cases. It is a long, and sometimes excuciating job.

When we first started, the number of Jury cases was over 20,000. I am pleased that the number absolutely and by proportion is diminishing rapidly. The point may come soon where it will be worth an attempt to clear them altogether.

New Cases

[If what you wanted to find was the most recent case law, see recent cases.]

This section sets out some critical measures of the number of elements in the database. It is designed to show how well we are keeping on top of the task before us.

Please note that since much of the work involves bringing back together cases which have been listed more than once, these figures can, as they say, go down as well as up. Our original, and now ancient, design produced one case entry for each link to a resource. A case available in two places, would show as two cases. Now each case should bring together the several links from where further information might be found, and there should be only one entry. When several such separate listings are rationalised, the numbers of cases listed appears to decrease. The results can sometimes look depressing from my point of view, but I know how much work they represent, and that each 'tightening up' of the data improves the service overall. Once done, it does not have to be re-done.

Date	Case Listings	Summaries	Links/Refs	Lip Cases	Citations	Case allocations	Statute References	Comment
31 August 2010	278847	61714	870372	65	54953	309724	30733
30 August 2010	278845	61707	870367	65	54944	309716	30727
28 August 2010	278845	61707	870367	65	54944	309716	30727
26 August 2010	278838	61701	870354	65	54942	309709	30726
24 August 2010	278837	61692	870350	65	54939	309706	30719
22 August 2010	278817	61639	870274	65	54875	309666	30698
20 August 2010	278792	61629	870211	65	54848	309632	30697
10 August 2010	278772	61581	870057	65	54728	309574	30649
31 July 2010	278632	61492	869521	65	54521	309376	30602
30 June 2010	277482	61164	866175	65	53978	308012	30244
31 May 2010	273760	60720	857234	65	52982	304036	29699
30 April 2010	267106	60093	831589	65	52114	297026	29382
31 March 2010	264953	59812	823427	65	51710	294706	29072
28 February 2010	260197	59516	805902	65	50948	289414	28821
31 January 2010	254810	59268	785142	65	50582	283896	28578
31 December 2009	247389	59069	756021	65	50337	276361	28320
30 November 2009	240132	58780	728002	65	49847	268953	28035
31 October 2009	235913	58366	712052	65	49189	264540	27695
30 September 2009	233840	57983	704680	65	48713	262266	27178
31 August 2009	232892	57565	700972	65	48007	260963	26964
31 July 2009	227749	57256	681386	65	47531	255588	26744
30 June 2009	206162	57095	596293	65	47155	233917	26460
31 March 2009	187003	56374	523398	66	46229	214135	25499
31 December 2008	138480	55243	320402	66	44708	164827	24572
30 September 2008	136041	53981	308840	66	42546	161396	23185
30 June 2008	130358	49279	295220	66	40993	154785	22328
31 March 2008	126680	47517	290292	66	39088	149644	21341
31 December 2007	123859	46963	284816	66	38218	146398	20775
30 September 2007	121402	46275	274318	66	37282	143464	20031
30 June 2007	116926	42133	264960	67	36409	138634	19624
31 March 2007	114672	41331	262507	69	35296	135853	19113
31 December 2006	111830	40547	256444	69	34088	132528	18492
31 December 2005	103235	36221	234153	67	27769	120607	15750
31 December 2004	88080	29387	198585	65	19356	101748	13667
31 December 2003	60171	22903	91445	62	9253	70058	9287
30 November 2003	58674	22501	87536	62	8482	67989	9076
31 October 2003	58043	21915	85030	62	7606	66697	8822
30 September 2003	57376	21371	82827	62	6823	65740	8636
31 August 2003	56836	20836	81227	62	6212	64926	8452
31 July 2003	56072	20394	79204	62	5653	63942	8310
30 June 2003	55875	20018	76868	62	4805	63316	8175
31 May 2003	54953	19413	74004	61	3904	61928	7997
30 April 2003	53906	19003	71177	61	3248	60361	7815
31 March 2003	53549	18731	69015	61	2742	59640	7653
28 February 2003	53054	18527	58970	64	2514	58987	7567	We are moving to adding all cases cited as separate cases. This will slowly inflate the 'Cases' figure.
31 January 2003	52627	18205	58125	61	2258	58392	7466	A lot of work has been done to remove duplicates. Thank you to all who have pointed to cases needing updating.
31 December 2002	52670	18152	57917	60	2084	58301	7407
30 November 2002	52618	18093	57595	59	1950	58138	7360
31 October 2002	52268	17725	57092	53	1843	57633	7215
30 September 2002	51871	17054	56411	42	1747	57075	7133	The big increase in the total no of cases represents the addition of material from the Trade Marks Registry
31 August 2002	49828	15423	54244	33	1527	54918	7058	August is always the quietest month of the year. The figures are a little inflated by the re-instatement of links to PC cases. In practice the ratio and cases count will come down again shortly.
31 July 2002	49453	15028	53771	21	1322	54393	6931	We have added the count of 'lip cases,' full text decisions made available by us.
30 June 2002	49323	14874	53526	2	1231	54160	6861	We have just added 1500 decisions from the European Court, Court of First Instance. The changes also show continuing work tightening up the data.
31 May 2002	48177	15163	52158	0	1112	52909	6750	A lot of work has gone into updating the Court Service and Employment Appeals Tribunal. 600 duplicated EAT decisions will be removed over the next few days.
30 April 2002	46717	14316	50545		989	50558	6624
31 March 2002	45015	13886	48560		905	48735	6585
28 February 2002	45028	13995	48087		801	48537	6573
31 January 2002	44976	13845	47874		676	48277	6409
31 December 2001	44830	13651	47633		582	47994	6272

• The 'Cases' count shows the number of separate case listings. This exaggerates the figure of separate cases, since there remain, and always will, cases which are listed more than once. The original system we used was in a very simple database form. Each reference to a resource required a second listing of that case. After moving to the new system, we have done much to recombine these, but it will be a long task. We put more emphasis on making sure that new material is right. Also new cases are added straight in because we want users to have access to them. It can be difficult to make sure that separate references to the same case are brought together.
• 'Ratios' - this represents the number of case notes or headnotes in the system. For some older cases there may be more than one head note. Getting rid of these duplications is a slow but continuing process.
• 'Links/References'. This is the total of references to outside resources. These include paper based resources, online sites with and without full text decisions.
• 'lip cases' These are the full text decisions made available by us from our own resources, rather than relying upon the texts provided by others. It is a small attempt to 'give something back.' All the cases are freely available with or without subscriptions.
• 'Citations'. The number of cases identified as cited by the case referred to. This element was only introduced in late 2002, and is increasing rapidly, and will become a central feature of the way lawindexpro works..
• 'Area Allocations'. This is the number of cases allocated to particular areas of law. A case allocated to three categories will count, for this figure, three times.
• 'Statute References'. The number of references within the system to identified statutes, statutory instruments, directives, international conventions, or similar.

Statistics

This section details how many of the various kinds of elements are currently in the lawindexPro database.

Please remember that many cases will have references or links on several sites. The more important cases may appear as many as four times, and for the moment there remain many duplicated cases. These figures may, therefore, exaggerate the count of separate cases.

Service	Link/Reference	Count	Last Case	First Case
Cases in the Times	References	12090	01-Aug-8075	08-Jan-1788
Cases in the Gazette	References	4540	24-Jun-2010	25-Mar-1987
Cases in the Independent	References	687	21-Nov-2002	19-Jul-1988
Cases in the Independent Summaries	References	913	26-Feb-1996	15-Feb-1993
Cases on Emplaw	References	1	03-May-2001	03-May-2001
Cases on EAT	Links	0
lawindexpro Cases	Links	65	01-Aug-8075	08-Jan-1788
Cases on House of Lords site	Links	592	10-May-2006	14-Nov-1996
Cases on Privy Council site	Links	847	15-Dec-2005	06-Mar-1914
Cases on Bailii	Links	121823	26-Aug-2010	01-Jan-1583
Cases on Europa site	Links	12557	29-Apr-2010	21-Dec-1954
Cases on Court Service	Links	2	19-May-2009	14-Jan-2009
Cases on Hudoc	Links	1	03-Dec-1990	03-Dec-1990

The following table lists the numbers of cases listed for the courts shown.

Court	Code	Count	Last	First
House of Lords	HL	2651	30-Jul-2009	01-Jan-1677
Privy Council	PC	6189	12-Jul-2010	01-Jan-1690
Court of Appeal - Civil Division	CA	22983	24-Aug-2010	01-Jan-1801
Court of Appeal - Criminal Division	CACD	15540	13-Aug-2010	01-Jan-1965
Chancery Division	ChD	4365	16-Aug-2010	11-Jan-1606
Family Division	FD	810	11-Aug-2010	01-Jan-1885
Queen's Bench Division	QBD	4080	05-Aug-2010	15-Apr-1591
Administrative Court	Admn	8691	12-Aug-2010	01-Jan-1980
Technology and Construction Court	TCC	787	12-Aug-2010	01-Jan-1980
Employment Appeal Tribunal	EAT	18983	26-Aug-2010	01-Jan-1974
European Court of Justice	ECJ	13189	29-Jul-2010	21-Dec-1954
European Court of First Instance	ECFI	4215	29-Jul-2010	21-Dec-1954
European Court of Human Rights	ECHR	13842	29-Jul-2010	14-Nov-1960

The following table lists the number of cases listed for each year. For most cases before 1996, we have references and or head notes only - we have no link to the full text of the decision. There are links to numbers of full text decisions only for the European Court of Justice, the European Court of First Instance and the European Court of Human Rights. A small number are provided also by the Privy Council, and we provide a further number, but these remain only a very small number.

These numbers are important, since we are rapidly increasing the number of cases from earlier years ('Roots Cases'), providing head notes for many. The cases added for earlier years will be those which still have some significance. We think that in any year, the ALL ER and WLR number report each rather less than 400 cases. A recent (2003) figure on the Butterworths web-site showed a total of 20,000 cases in the All ER, and 8,000 case notes in their case notes series. Inevitably a number of the cases reported in any one year become of less significance in later years as the law is superceded. A very rough figure for the number of cases we should index before claiming to have a broad coverage in any one year is 700, with smaller numbers as the years disappear into the past. We still only advertise the index as an index for the period after 1992 only (ie 1993 and onward). We will continue to place emphasis on the most recent case law. As time goes by, we will add cases from the past as they are shown to have continued relevance. Eventually, as the number of earlier cases continues to grow, our claim may be extended back in time. We will still produce only a very small and selective number of earlier cases in full text.

Looking at the table below, the years 1997, 1998 and 1999 stand out as having substantially more cases than either earlier or later years. I can not precisely say why this is, but I think that when it was first decided to make case law available for free, very many more cases were published in this way. Eventually the penny dropped, and the decision was taken (I think) to be slightly more selective in the numbers of cases published. The reduction is primarily in cases on the 'Bailii' site. Then as the years have gone by other resources have become available, which have increased the numbers again.

Year	Cases
1223	1
1293	1
1310	1
1315	1
1324	1
1330	1
1343	2
1344	1
1345	1
1346	1
1352	1
1355	2
1360	1
1364	1
1366	3
1367	1
1368	3
1369	1
1370	2
1372	1
1375	1
1382	1
1409	1
1410	2
1419	1
1429	2
1431	1
1432	2
1440	1
1441	1
1443	3
1458	1
1465	3
1469	2
1472	1
1487	1
1494	4
1498	2
1520	2
1530	1
1551	2
1554	1
1558	1
1560	1
1561	1
1564	2
1568	1
1573	2
1581	1
1583	2
1584	5
1585	1
1587	14
1588	1
1591	3
1592	1
1594	1
1595	1
1596	1
1597	2
1598	1
1599	2
1600	2
1601	3
1602	2
1603	3
1604	2
1606	3
1607	2
1608	1
1609	1
1610	2
1611	2
1613	1
1614	7
1615	1
1616	3
1617	2
1618	1
1619	1
1620	4
1621	1
1622	2
1623	1
1624	2
1625	33
1626	10
1627	12
1628	14
1629	20
1630	8
1631	22
1632	14
1633	15
1634	22
1635	25
1636	14
1637	14
1638	10
1639	20
1640	6
1641	8
1642	1
1645	2
1646	1
1647	3
1648	3
1649	33
1650	225
1651	285
1653	2274
1654	1
1655	6
1656	5
1657	680
1658	802
1659	204
1660	357
1661	408
1662	322
1663	87
1664	382
1665	160
1666	25
1667	205
1668	34
1669	657
1670	62
1671	43
1672	30
1673	176
1674	126
1675	1873
1676	622
1677	108
1678	90
1679	81
1680	272
1681	207
1682	511
1683	87
1684	85
1685	4134
1686	318
1687	1005
1688	1280
1689	355
1690	98
1691	79
1692	62
1693	40
1694	30
1695	33
1696	36
1697	35
1698	46
1699	42
1700	91
1701	64
1702	131
1703	68
1704	62
1705	73
1706	68
1707	43
1708	73
1709	1
1710	114
1711	71
1712	25
1713	41
1714	771
1715	89
1716	74
1717	70
1718	109
1719	74
1720	58
1721	402
1722	71
1723	67
1724	784
1725	145
1726	973
1727	60
1728	569
1729	385
1730	320
1731	1
1732	514
1733	169
1734	111
1735	63
1736	85
1737	206
1738	1093
1739	104
1740	246
1741	541
1742	153
1743	118
1744	1801
1745	90
1746	806
1747	227
1748	455
1749	181
1750	268
1751	148
1752	170
1753	152
1754	240
1755	162
1756	139
1757	154
1758	246
1759	117
1760	750
1761	79
1762	80
1763	106
1764	97
1765	96
1766	190
1767	97
1768	76
1769	79
1770	74
1771	55
1772	74
1773	43
1774	117
1775	72
1776	75
1777	70
1778	165
1779	160
1780	123
1781	120
1782	122
1783	194
1784	238
1785	196
1786	237
1787	250
1788	289
1789	2661
1790	2548
1791	1541
1792	3232
1793	1627
1794	2360
1795	4246
1796	2545
1797	613
1798	298
1799	925
1800	387
1801	537
1802	433
1803	781
1804	431
1805	399
1806	381
1807	466
1808	451
1809	598
1810	657
1811	669
1812	603
1813	731
1814	761
1815	1190
1816	889
1817	852
1818	835
1819	793
1820	691
1821	670
1822	643
1823	853
1824	1000
1825	889
1826	1327
1827	899
1828	947
1829	873
1830	955
1831	992
1832	935
1833	961
1834	1187
1835	1097
1836	1195
1837	1183
1838	1117
1839	1233
1840	1120
1841	1261
1842	1238
1843	1277
1844	1118
1845	1382
1846	1254
1847	1043
1848	1088
1849	1258
1850	968
1851	1028
1852	1183
1853	1142
1854	1063
1855	960
1856	1037
1857	1032
1858	1294
1859	1137
1860	1379
1861	1105
1862	1222
1863	1125
1864	912
1865	819
1866	227
1867	69
1868	95
1869	167
1870	153
1871	154
1872	158
1873	141
1874	120
1875	109
1876	88
1877	92
1878	88
1879	121
1880	93
1881	92
1882	86
1883	104
1884	90
1885	71
1886	96
1887	88
1888	121
1889	106
1890	73
1891	101
1892	117
1893	111
1894	114
1895	95
1896	108
1897	101
1898	122
1899	120
1900	107
1901	116
1902	93
1903	132
1904	127
1905	145
1906	123
1907	114
1908	130
1909	104
1910	48
1911	121
1912	51
1913	42
1914	74
1915	50
1916	43
1917	34
1918	35
1919	42
1920	60
1921	50
1922	46
1923	49
1924	43
1925	42
1926	42
1927	41
1928	38
1929	39
1930	42
1931	36
1932	38
1933	39
1934	41
1935	41
1936	45
1937	39
1938	42
1939	58
1940	45
1941	36
1942	52
1943	45
1944	46
1945	38
1946	43
1947	60
1948	71
1949	74
1950	73
1951	96
1952	103
1953	82
1954	82
1955	93
1956	88
1957	92
1958	93
1959	95
1960	102
1961	127
1962	133
1963	137
1964	153
1965	157
1966	141
1967	162
1968	192
1969	179
1970	258
1971	283
1972	272
1973	289
1974	278
1975	323
1976	343
1977	391
1978	388
1979	442
1980	459
1981	500
1982	584
1983	539
1984	559
1985	649
1986	586
1987	664
1988	737
1989	645
1990	783
1991	896
1992	1359
1993	2150
1994	2617
1995	2595
1996	5445
1997	9521
1998	10228
1999	10198
2000	7491
2001	9729
2002	10125
2003	9842
2004	9357
2005	9182
2006	8010
2007	7765
2008	8132
2009	7831
2010	4006

Measuring Coverage - How many cases should we have?

One issue is how we can measure our coverage. In each year there are, and will have been, many thousands of judgments handed down. Some will be of general interest, some of particular interest to a very small group of specialists, but very many will be of no real surviving or continuing interest. Which case falls into which category is a matter for judgment. The All ER and WLR are generalist resources. Each publish (very approximately) 350 cases per year in the general series. If they coincide by 80 percent (ie there is an 80% chance that a case in the one series will also be reported in the other) then we might suggest that there are about 420 to 450 cases a year properly of general interest to lawyers. I think it reasonable to take that as a measure of the number of judgments which are significant in the year in which they are handed down.

A second factor then comes into play. As years go by, older cases become less relevant. A case might be over-ruled, or a statute is passed which quietly condemns it to the dustbin of legal history. It is difficult to quantify this figure, but the phenomenon is clearly real enough to make it worth not attempting to recreate a 'full' list of earlier cases, and we could not do this in any event.

Since June 2003 we have cross referenced the cases cited in a case as we note it up, including those 'Roots Cases', if we can give it at least a reference. Where we can provide a useful head note, we will do so. The result is that quite quickly we are building up a much longer list of case references, and it is one which disappears back in time. The current oldest case referred to is from 1223.

Anyone looking at the list will see that we have do not have proper coverage of older case law. 1993 is the first year for which we would claim to have anything like a proper coverage. It must be noted also that full text judgments are generally unavailable for cases after 1860 and before late 1996. The most important older cases are now also being made available.

When editing cases and checking whether a case cited is already in the index, the ratio of 'already included' to 'not yet included' will rise. It will never reach 100%, but I do hope that if a point comes where, perhaps, less than 30 per cent of cases are added as they are cited, I can argue that we have good coverage.

The table below gives an idea of how we are doing. The second column shows the number of cases we have recorded as having been cited in another case. The third is a count of the number of such citations where the reference was to a new case, a case with a higher index number. The ratio shows the percentage of new case citations which are of cases already in the index. This is a measure, not the best since it badly underestimates the proportion, of how often you can expect to find a case in the index. This figure will increase albeit quite slowly. I may yet also improve the calculation by perhaps taking only cases added within the preceding six months.

	Total Citations	Late/New Additions	Ratio % already in database
31 August 2010	54953	21731	60.46%
30 August 2010	54944	21730	60.45%
28 August 2010	54944	21730	60.45%
26 August 2010	54942	21728	60.45%
24 August 2010	54939	21727	60.45%
22 August 2010	54875	21713	60.43%
20 August 2010	54848	21705	60.43%
10 August 2010	54728	21694	60.36%
31 July 2010	54521	21651	60.29%
30 June 2010	53852	21567	59.95%
31 May 2010	52982	21325	59.75%
30 April 2010	52114	21090	59.53%
31 March 2010	51710	21006	59.38%
28 February 2010	50948	20871	59.03%
31 January 2010	50582	20780	58.92%
31 December 2009	50337	20737	58.80%
30 November 2009	49847	20618	58.64%
31 October 2009	49189	20463	58.40%
30 September 2009	48713	20386	58.15%
31 August 2009	48007	20227	57.87%
31 July 2009	47531	20131	57.65%
30 June 2009	47155	20046	57.49%
31 May 2009	46942	20001	57.39%
30 April 2009	46570	19938	57.19%
31 March 2009	46229	19845	57.07%
28 February 2009	45726	19734	56.84%
31 January 2009	45170	19621	56.56%
31 December 2008	44708	19495	56.39%
30 November 2008	44070	19341	56.11%
31 October 2008	43482	19230	55.77%
30 September 2008	42546	19007	55.33%
31 August 2008	42074	18854	55.19%
31 July 2008	41628	18682	55.12%
30 June 2008	40993	18539	54.78%
31 March 2008	39088	17877	54.26%
31 December 2007	38218	17579	54.00%
30 November 2007	38010	17525	53.89%
31 October 2007	37724	17441	53.77%
30 September 2007	37282	17238	53.76%
31 August 2007	37098	17132	53.82%
31 July 2007	36773	17000	53.77%
30 June 2007	36409	16870	53.67%
31 May 2007	36125	16772	53.57%
30 April 2007	35619	16570	53.48%
31 March 2007	35296	16432	53.45%
28 February 2007	34903	16315	53.26%
31 January 2007	34589	16240	53.05%
31 December 2006	34088	16049	52.92%
30 November 2006	33879	15972	52.86%
31 October 2006	33528	15855	52.71%
30 September 2006	33164	15726	52.58%
30 June 2006	31869	15301	51.99%
31 March 2006	29528	14457	51.04%
31 December 2005	27769	13765	50.43%
30 September 2005	25465	12893	49.37%
30 June 2005	24044	12378	48.52%
31 March 2005	22080	11571	47.60%
31 December 2004	19356	10258	47.00%
30 November 2004	18690	10028	46.35%
31 October 2004	17974	9708	45.99%
30 September 2004	17004	9201	45.89%
31 August 2004	16259	8756	46.15%
31 July 2004	15265	8338	45.38%
30 June 2004	14518	8018	44.77%
31 May 2004	14043	7776	44.63%
30 April 2004	12966	7224	44.29%
31 March 2004	12281	6867	44.08%
29 February 2004	10952	6153	43.82%
31 January 2004	10179	5771	43.30%
31 December 2003	9253	5225	43.53%
30 November 2003	8476	4822	43.11%
31 October 2003	7606	4300	43.47%
30 September 2003	6823	3930	42.40%
31 August 2003	6212	3581	42.35%
31 July 2003	5653	3306	41.52%
30 June 2003	5203	3036	41.65%

30 July 2005. I now have a calculation. Taking the last 5000 citations in the most recent cases, we had 70% of all such citations already in the database.

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Areas of Law

Area of Law		Case Count
Administrative		704
Adoption		176
Agency		270
Agriculture		419
Animals		132
Arbitration		632
Armed Forces		172
Banking		719
Benefits		4404
Capital Gains Tax		147
Charity		170
Child Support		104
Children		1868
Civil Procedure Rules		310
Commercial		610
Commonwealth		4643
Company		1512
Constitutional		501
Construction		683
Consumer		358
Contempt of Court		436
Contract		3237
Coroners		302
Corporation Tax		206
Costs		1610
County Court Rules		85
Crime		17501
Criminal Evidence		355
Criminal Practice		2320
Criminal Sentencing		1513
Customs and Excise		321
Damages		1645
Defamation		823
Discrimination		3004
Ecclesiastical		160
Education		606
Elections		99
Employment		21490
Environment		417
Equity		512
Estoppel		223
European		18150
Evidence		385
Excise		766
Extradition		456
Family		1075
Financial Services		416
Health		648
Health and Safety		291
Health Professions		1080
Housing		1280
Human Rights		15509
Immigration		3870
Income Tax		758
Information		467
Inheritance Tax		68
Insolvency		1319
Insurance		881
Intellectual Property		9087
International		416
Judicial Review		407
Jurisdiction		521
Jury		130237
Land		3274
Landlord and Tenant		2006
Legal Aid		252
Legal Professions		1186
Licensing		334
Limitation		743
Litigation Practice		3869
Local Government		949
Magistrates		528
Media		582
Natural Justice		152
Negligence		892
Northern Ireland		5728
Nuisance		324
Personal Injury		1587
Planning		1598
Police		824
Prisons		597
Professional Negligence		928
Rating		246
Registered Land		153
Road Traffic		900
Scotland		10227
Stamp Duty		35
Taxes - Other		532
Taxes Management		249
Torts - Other		1245
Transport		825
Trusts		655
Undue Influence		128
Utilities		179
VAT		3533
Vicarious Liability		160
Wills and Probate		778
		Last Update: 31 August 2010

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Court Codes

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Code	Court Name	Description
	First-tier Tribunal - Tax
AdCt	Admiralty Court	A subdivision of the Queen's Bench Division, specialising in Shipping law. - See now Commercial and Admiralty Court.
Admn	Administrative Court (was Crown Office List)	Part of the Queen's Bench Division. Deals with many applications for judicial review.
Assz	Assizes	Former criminal courts
BC	Bankruptcy Court
CA	Court of Appeal	The top division of the High Court. This court usually hears civil cases.
CACD	Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
CANI	Court of Appeal (Northern Ireland)
Carc	Court of Arches
CAT	Competition Appeal Tribunal
CC	County Court, Chancery Court
CCA	Court of Criminal Appeal	See now the CACD
CCC	Central Criminal Court	The Old Bailey. A Crown Court.
CCCR	Court of Crown Cases Reserved
CCF	County Court - Family
CCNI	Crown Court of Northern Ireland
CCP	Court of Common Pleas	Now defunct. An ancient court, folowed (more or less) by the Chancery Division.
CEC	Court of Exchequer Chamber
ChD	Chancery Division
ChNI	Chancery Division - Northern Ireland
CMAC	Courts Martial Appeal Court	Armed Forces Criminal Court of Appeal
CmpC	Companies Court
COL	Crown Office List (Now Administrative Court)
ComC	Commercial Court (Queen's Bench Division)	Includes now the Admiralty Court
ConC	Consistory Court	Ecclesiastical law
CPro	Court of Protection
Crwn	Crown Court (Any area)
CST	Care Standards Tribunal
Cust	Customs (Customs and Duties Tribunal)
DC	Divisional Court (Division unspecified)
DCC	Diocesan Consistory Court
DPT	Data Protection Tribunal
DR	Designs Right Registry
EAT	Employment Appeal Tribunal
ECFI	European Court, Court of First Instance
ECHR	European Court of Human Rights
ECJ	European Court of Justice
ECMM	European Commission
EPC	European Patents Court
EPOBA	European Patents Office - Board of Appeal
ET	Industrial Tribunal, Employment Tribunal
ETMR	European Trade Marks Registry
Exc	Court of Exchequer
ExcC	Exchequer Court
ExP	Exchequer of Pleas
FD	Family Division
FDCS	First Division, Court of Session
FdNI	Family Division - Northern Ireland
FENI	Fair Employment Tribunal Northern Ireland
FSMT	Financial Services and Markets Tribunal
FTHESC	First-tier Tribunal - Health Education Social Care
HCJ	High Court of Justiciary (Scots Criminal Appeals)
HL	House of Lords
IAT	Immigration Appeals Tribunal
ICCC	Irish Court of Crown Cases Reserved
ICJ	International Court of Justice
ICSID	Inter Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes
ICT	International Criminal Tribunal
IHCS	Inner House Court of Session
IoC	Visitors of the Inns of Court
IT	Information Tribunal/Nat Security Appeals Panel
KBD	King's Bench Division
LCJ	Lord Chief Justice's Court
LndF	Landfill Tax (VAT and Duties Tribunal)
LT	Lands Tribunal
MCLC	Mayor and City of London County Court
Merc	Mercantile Court
NDRS	Nominet UK Dispute Resolution Service
NICC	Crown Court for Northern Ireland
NIHC	High Court Northern Ireland
NIHCM	N Ireland - High Court Master
NIIT	Northern Ireland Industrial Tribunal
NIRC	National Industrial Relations Court
None	No court applicable or known
OHCS	Outer House Court of Session
OHIM	Office for Harmonisation of the Internal Market
OR	Official Referee's Court (see now TCC)
PatC	Patents Court
PC	Privy Council
PCC	Patents County Court
PO	Patents Office
QBD	Queen's Bench Division
QBNI	Queen's Bench Division - Northern Ireland
RPC	Restrictive Trade Practices Court
SC	Supreme Court (Practice directions Crown Courts)
SCCO	Supreme Court Costs Office
ScHC	High Court of Scotland - See HCJ
SCIT	Special Commissioners of Income Tax
SCJ	Supreme Court of Justice (PDs all civil courts)
SCS	Scottish Court of Session (Inner or Outer)
ScSf	Scottish Sheriff Court
SDCS	Second Division, Court of Session (IHCS) not used
SIAC	Special Immigration Appeal Tribunal
SSAT	Social Security Appeals Tribunal
SSC	Social Security Commissioner
SSCS	Social Security and Child Support Commissioner
TCC	Technology and Construction Court (was OR)
TMR	Trade Marks Registry
UKSC	Supreme Court
UTLC	Upper Tribunal (Lands Chamber)	Formerly the Lands Tribunal (June 2009)
VCCS	Vacation Court, Court of Session
VDT	VAT and Duties Tribunal
		Last Update: 31 August 2010

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