Accredited official statistics

Civil Justice Statistics Quarterly: January to March 2025

Published 5 June 2025

Applies to England and Wales

1. Main Points

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Increase in County Court claims, driven mostly by money claims	Compared to the same period in 2024, County Court claims from January to March 2025 were up 18% to 490,000, the highest level since Q3 2019. Of these, 409,000 (83%) were money claims (up 19%).
Damages claims were up 33% to 31,000	The increase in damages claims was driven by a rise in other damages claims (up 81% to 16,000) compared to the same quarter in 2024.
The number of claims defended, and the number of trials increased compared to the same period in 2024	There were 67,000 claims defended (up 8%) and 14,000 claims that went to trial in January to March 2025 (up 16%) compared to the same quarter in 2024.
Mean time taken from claim to hearing has fallen for all tracks	The mean time taken for small claims to go to trial was 49.8 weeks in January to March 2025, 1.5 weeks faster than the same period in 2024. The mean time taken for multi/intermediate/fast track claims to go to trial was 7.2 weeks faster, to 74.7 weeks, over the same period.
Judgments and default judgments were both down 1%	Judgments were down 1% (to 278,000) in January to March 2025, compared to the same period in 2024; with 92% of these being default judgments.
Enforcement applications rose to 14,000 and orders also rose to 11,000	Enforcement applications were up 6%, and enforcement orders were also up 6% in January to March 2025 when compared to the same quarter in 2024.
Warrants issued decreased to 67,000	Warrants issued were down 12% when compared to the same quarter in 2024.
670 judicial review applications	There were 670 applications for Judicial Reviews in Q1 2025, down 8% on Q1 2024.

This publication gives civil county court and judicial review statistics for the latest quarter (January to March 2025), compared to the same quarter in 2024. Should users wish to compare against earlier time periods, they can do so using the accompanying statistical tables.

This quarter’s publication also includes annual data on cases in the Royal Courts of Justice and Judicial Sitting Days between January and December 2024. For more details, please see the supporting document.

Statistics on the Business and Property Court for England and Wales have also been published alongside this quarterly bulletin as Official Statistics. For technical detail, please refer to the accompanying support document.

A visualisation tool that provides further breakdowns of the civil county court cases in a web-based application can be found here. For general feedback on the tool and related content of this publication, please contact us at: CAJS@justice.gov.uk

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2. Statistician’s comment

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Claims received in the county courts have continued to rise and are currently at the highest level since Q3 2019. This quarter’s increase was driven by money claims alongside a rise in other damages claims which have reached their highest level since Q2 2011.

The number of claims defended, and claims gone to trial also increased over the same period, whilst decreases were recorded in allocations to track and warrants issued.

The average time between issue and trial for small track claims and fast/intermediate/multi track claims decreased this quarter, at 1.5 and 7.2 weeks faster respectively compared to the same quarter in 2024. This continues a gradual fall in average timeliness across all tracks since the beginning of 2024.

In 2024, judge sitting days fell 4% to 326,000, driven by a decline in County Court sittings. This was partly offset by a 5% rise in Crown Court sittings.

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3. Claims Summary

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County court claims were up 18% on the same quarter of 2024 to the highest level since Q3 2019, driven mostly by money claims.

Non-money claim volumes were at 50,000, up 2% when compared to the same quarter in 2024.

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Figure 1: Quarterly County Court claims by type, Q1 (January to March) 2020 to Q1 (January to March) 2025 (Source: table 1.2)

In the most recent quarter, total claims were up 18% compared to the same period in 2024 (from 416,000 to 490,000). Of these, 440,000 were money and damages claims, up 20% from January to March 2024 (from 366,000). Money and damages claims made up 90% of all claims in January to March 2025, up 2pp on its share in January to March 2024.

Non-money claims generally decreased between 2015 and Q1 2020. Following a sharp drop in Q2 2020 due to Covid19, these volumes have continued to rise gradually since Q3 2020. In the current quarter, these claims were up 2% (from 49,000 to 50,000) compared to the same period in 2024, driven by increases in Mortgage and Landlord Possession claims and claims for return of goods.

Within non-money claims, ‘other’ non-money claims have shown a general decline since 2018. However, since Q2 2022, these have remained relatively stable, at 17,000 in Q1 2025 compared to the same period in 2024. The previous decreases were likely to be partly the result of whiplash reforms reducing the volume of road traffic accident claims going to court.

Similarly, Mortgage and Landlord Possession claims have followed a long term downward trend decreasing from a peak of 60,000 in January to March 2014 to 29,000 in the same period in 2020. Following the impact of Covid-19, when it fell to 3,200, the lowest recorded, volumes have increased gradually to 30,000 claims in January to March 2024. Since the beginning of 2024, these have remained relatively stable with 31,000 claims recorded in January to March 2025, up 2% compared to the same quarter of 2024 (30,000 claims). Further details can be found in the Mortgage and Landlord Possessions publication here.

Claims for return of goods increased steadily to a high of 3,500 in July-September 2018 but have since declined. Following a further decline due to the impact of Covid-19 to 700 in Q2 2020, there has been recovery in these figures and volumes have remained relatively stable since Q1 2022, around pre-covid levels, although there is some quarterly volatility within this series. This quarter, volumes are up 12% (from 2,500 to 2,800) compared to the same period in 2024.

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4. Money and Damages Claims^{[footnote 1]}

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Money claims were up 19% (to 409,000 claims) in January to March 2025 compared to the same quarter in 2024.

Damages claims^{[footnote 2]} were up 33% at 31,000 driven by an increase in other damages claims (up 81%) to 16,000 compared to the same quarter in 2024.

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Figure 2: Money claims by monetary value, Q1 (January to March) 2020 to Q1 (January to March) 2025 (Source: civil workload CSV^{[footnote 3]})

Almost all (over 99%) money claims are processed and issued at the Civil National Business Centre (CNBC)^{[footnote 4]}. There were 407,000 such claims at the CNBC in January to March 2025 (up 19% on the same quarter in 2024).

There were increases seen across all money bands over this period. Money claims valued up to £500 were up 9% to 178,000, claims between £500 and £1,000 were up 26% to 61,000, claims between £1,000 and £3,000 were up 30% to 92,000, claims between £3,000 and £5,000 were up 28% to 33,000, and claims over £5,000 were up 25% to 44,000.

Other than in Q2 2020, damages claims – made up of personal injury and other damages claims - have fluctuated between 21,000 and 38,000 claims each quarter over the last five years (since January to March 2020). In the current quarter, volumes were up 33% to 31,000 compared to the same period in 2024. This was driven by an increase in other damages claims, up 81% from 9,100 to 16,000. Other damages claims volumes can be prone to volatility. Other damages claims accounted for 53% of all damages claims in the most recent quarter, up 14pp compared to January to March 2024, when they accounted for 39% of all damages claims. These claims have increased, as expected, due to claims issued for limitation purposes following the introduction of the Pre-Action Protocol for Personal Injury Claims. This is for claims arising from an accident on or after 31 May 2021 which are below the Small Claims Limit in Road Traffic Accidents. The limitation period for these claims is three years and, as such, limitation claims have been received from the 1 June 2024 onwards.

Personal injury claims^{[footnote 2]} showed general decreases between Q4 2020 and Q1 2022 but have remained relatively stable since Q4 2022. The decreasing trend is likely to have been due to a combination of factors including the introduction of whiplash reforms (with some cases being processed via the online portal rather than going to court).

4.1 Allocations (table 1.3)

In January to March 2025, 36,000 money and damages claims were allocated to track, down 4% (from 37,000) compared to the same period in 2024. Compared to January to March 2024, of these allocations:

• 24,000 were allocated to small claims, down 9% on January to March 2024. This accounts for 67% of all allocations (compared to 71% of all allocations in the same quarter of 2024);
• 9,300 were allocated to fast track, up 5% on January to March 2024. This accounts for 26% of all allocations (compared to 24% of all allocations in the same quarter of 2024);
• 580 were allocated to intermediate track. This accounts for 2% of all allocations, although these are expected to increase as the new track is embedded;
• 1,900 were allocated to multi-track, up 3% on January to March 2024. This accounts for 5% of all allocations (unchanged compared to the same quarter of 2024);

In October 2023, the extension of Fixed Recoverable Costs saw the introduction of a new Intermediate track which sits between the Fast and Multi track. The Intermediate track is the normal track for claims valued between £25,000 and £100,000, with some exemptions^{[footnote 5]}. The track applies to both money and damages claims and introduces fixed recoverable costs to claims in this track which would previously have been allocated to the multi-track. This data has been added to the publication from Q3 2024 as volumes increased enough to make reporting non-disclosive.

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5. Defences (including legal representation) and Trials

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The number of claims defended was up 8% to 67,000 compared to the same quarter in 2024.

The number of trials was up 16% to 14,000 compared to the same quarter in 2024.

Average time taken for small claims was 49.8 weeks (1.5 weeks faster compared to the same quarter in 2024) and for multi, intermediate and fast track claims it was 74.7 weeks (7.2 weeks faster than January to March 2024).

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Of those claims defended in January to March 2025, 45% had legal representation for both claimant and defendant, 37% had representation for claimant only, and 3% for defendant only. Most (88%) damages claim defences had legal representation for both the defendant and claimant, compared with 33% of money claim defences.

Figure 3: Proportion of legal representation for each type of defence, January to March 2025 (Source: table 1.6)

The total number of claims defended was up 8% in January to March 2025 compared to the same quarter in 2024, from 62,000 to 67,000 cases. Money claim defences were up 15% from 40,000 to 46,000 compared to January to March 2024. On the contrary, a decrease was seen in defended damages claims (down 3% to 16,000).

5.1 Trials and Time Taken to Reach Trial (table 1.5)

Defended cases which are not settled or withdrawn, generally result in a trial. In total, there were 14,000 trials in January to March 2025, up 16% compared to the same period in 2024. This rise is likely due to the recovery in claims allocated to track in previous quarters. Of the claims that went to trial, 10,000 (76%) were small claims trials (up 18% compared to the same quarter in 2024) and 3,200 (24%) were fast, intermediate and multi-track trials (up 11% from the same quarter of 2024).

Timeliness data for the intermediate track has been included with the Fast and Multi track trials data from Q3 2024. It will be reviewed whether to include the Intermediate track data separately in subsequent publications when the number of quarterly hearings for this track rise high enough to allow meaningful timeliness figures to be produced.

Change to timeliness

As proposed in the bulletin in Q4 2024 and as part of our continual development of these statistics, we have standardised the backseries which the timeliness figures are based on from the Q1 2025 publication to include data based on the latest 6 full years. This is to help streamline the processing of cases stored in the backseries for this dataset and allow us to ensure these statistics can be produced efficiently. To ensure consistency and comparability in the timeseries as far as possible, we have revised timeliness from 2022 to reflect this methodology. Please see section 5 of the Q4 2024 bulletin for analysis of the effect of this change on the statistics.

This change has also been implemented in the case progression and Sankey CSVs backseries which means data exceeding 6 years on the system will no longer be revised.

If you have any suggestions or comments regarding this change, please contact CAJS@justice.gov.uk.

Figure 4: Average number of weeks from claim being issued to initial hearing date, Q1 (January to March) 2020 to Q1 (January to March) 2025 (Source: table 1.5)

In January to March 2025, it took an average of 49.8 weeks between a small claim being issued and the claim going to trial, 1.5 weeks faster than the same period in 2024. The Timeliness metric for Small Claims only includes those cases concluding at trial rather than those concluded through other routes like mediation. There is regional variation within this metric with longer waiting times experienced in London and the South East.

Mediation is being fully integrated as a key step in the court process for small civil claims valued up to £10,000. This, when successful, results in outcomes which are not used within the timeliness calculations. Statistics on small claims mediation can be found here.

For multi/intermediate/fast track claims, it took on average 74.7 weeks to reach a trial, 7.2 weeks faster than in January to March 2024, although continuing to exceed the upper limit of the range seen in 2009-2019 (which was 52 to 61 weeks).

Covid-19 and associated actions led to an uptick in time taken for all claims to reach trial. Prior to this, a sustained period of increasing receipts had increased the time taken to hear civil cases and caused delays to case progression.

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6. Judgments

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Judgments were down 1% compared to the same quarter in 2024.

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Figure 5: All claims, judgments and default judgments, Q1 (January to March) 2020 to Q1 (January to March) 2025 (Source: tables 1.2 and 1.4)

There were 278,000 judgments made in January to March 2025, down 1% compared to the same quarter of 2024. Of these, 92% were default judgments, stable on its share in January to March 2024. These have remained relatively stable since 2018, with around 9 out of every 10 judgments resulting in a default judgment.

The second largest type of judgment was ‘admissions’^{[footnote 6]}, of which there were 11,000 in January to March 2025, down 4% on the same quarter in 2024 (from 12,000). ‘Admission’ judgments accounted for 4% of all judgments.

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7. Warrants and Enforcements

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Warrants issued were down 12% when compared to the same quarter in 2024.

Enforcement applications were up 6% and enforcement orders were also up 6% when compared to January to March 2024.

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Figure 6: Warrants and enforcements issued – Q1 (January to March) 2020 to Q1 (January to March) 2025 (Source: tables 1.7 and 1.8)

7.1 Warrants (table 1.7)

In the latest quarter (January to March 2025) there were 67,000 warrants issued, down 12% (from 76,000) on the same quarter in 2024. Warrants of control accounted for 78% of total warrants, and were down 15%, from 61,000 to 52,000, compared to the same period in 2024. These volumes are largely driven by bulk user behaviour and as such can fluctuate significantly.

There were 15,000 possession warrants issued in January to March 2025, stable on the same quarter in 2024. These have had a general upwards trend since Q3 2020, following a sharp drop in Q2 2020 due to the impact of Covid-19.

7.2 Enforcements (table 1.8)

In January to March 2025, there were 14,000 enforcement-related order applications (which include attachment of earnings orders, charging orders, third party debt orders, administration orders, and orders to obtain information), up 6% compared to the same quarter of 2024. Charging order applications increased, up 31%. Attachment of earnings (AoE) applications, third party debt applications, and administration orders applications decreased, down 16%, 2%, 85% respectively.

There were 11,000 enforcement-related orders made in January to March 2025, up 6% compared to the same quarter of 2024. Charging orders and orders to obtain information from judgment debtors rose, up 11% and 23% respectively (from 5,900 and 1,400 to 6,600 and 1,700 respectively), driving the overall rise in volumes. This was offset in part by a fall in AoE orders, which were down 13% (from 2,500 to 2,200).

Over the longer term, there has been a decreasing trend in enforcement-related applications received and orders made since 2009, possibly due to claimants’ preference for using warrants instead to retrieve money, property or goods.

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8. Judicial reviews^{[footnote 7]}

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There were 670 judicial review applications received in Q1 2025, down 8% on Q1 2024 (730).

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Figure 7: Judicial Review Applications, by type; Q1 2020 to Q1 2025 (Source: JR CSV)

Of the 670 applications received in Q1 2025, 240 were civil immigration and asylum applications, 390 were civil (other), and 30 were criminal, down 3%, 11% and 12% respectively on Q1 2024. None of the civil immigration and asylum cases have so far been transferred to the UTIAC.

Of the applications that were made in Q1 2025, 26% are now closed. Of the total applications, 190 reached the permission stage in Q1 2025, and of these:

• 18% (33) were found to be totally without merit.
• 46 cases have already been granted permission or granted permission in part to proceed and 110 were refused at the permission stage. 3 cases refused at permission stage have so far gone on to be granted permission at the renewal stage.
• 49 cases were assessed to be eligible for a final hearing and of these, 6 have since been heard.
• the mean time from a case being lodged to the permission decision was 43 days. Although timeliness for cases being lodged to final hearing are included in the tables, this is based on too few cases to be meaningful. The actual time taken for these cases will only be known when they have had time to work their way through the system.

8.1 Applications lodged against departments (table 2.5)

Table 2.5 presents judicial review figures by defendant type (i.e. individual government department or public body). This table provides the number of judicial review applications lodged, permission granted to proceed to final hearing, and decisions found in favour of the claimant at final hearing.

The information presented is derived from the ‘defendant name’ – a free text field completed by the claimant, which is matched and grouped by department. All efforts have been made to quality assure the data presented. However, this is a manually typed field, and as such is open to inputting errors and should be used with caution.

The key findings for Q1 2025 are:

• Home Office had the largest number of JR applications lodged against them, with 230 applications. Of these, 9 have so far been granted permission or granted permission in part to proceed to final hearing (4% of applications) to date.
• The second largest recipient of JR cases was the Local Authorities, with 160 cases received, of which to date 23 have so far been granted permission or granted permission in part to proceed to final hearing (14% of applications).
• The third largest recipient was the Ministry of Justice, having 130 applications lodged against it. Of these, 7 have so far been granted permission or granted permission in part to proceed to final hearing (6% of applications) to date.

A more granular view of the JR data by department and case type can be found in the data visualisation tool found here. Feedback is welcome on this tool to ensure it meets user needs.

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9. Royal Courts of Justice

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Annual appeals that are administered by HM Courts and Tribunals Service (HMCTS) can be found in the accompanying Royal Court of Justice and Sitting Days tables here. Key findings covering the year to 2024 are summarised below:

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The Court of Appeal Criminal Division saw a 4% decrease over the year in the number of applications received, from 4,300 in 2023 to 4,200 in 2024. This was mainly driven by decreases in sentence appeals and other^{[footnote 8]} appeals, down 3% and 35% respectively. Meanwhile conviction appeals increased by 2% over the same period. (RCJ Table 2.1)

The Court of Appeal Civil Division had 580 appeals filed in 2024, up 2% on 2023. Of the appeals filed in 2024, the largest number (110 appeals, 19%) came from Immigration and Asylum. The number of disposals in 2024 increased by 11% to 470. The largest disposal volumes came from Business and Property Courts (Commercial and Admiralty) and Chancery categories (65 cases each, 14% of all disposals), followed by Immigration and Asylum (61 cases, 13% of disposals). (RCJ Table 2.3)

Civil Division mean timeliness to Permission to Appeal (PTA) decision has remained stable in 2024 at 14 weeks, the same as the previous two years. Mean timeliness from PTA granted to appeal hearing start has increased by 5 weeks compared to 2023 reaching 29 weeks in 2024. (RCJ Table 2.4)

Chancery Division: Proceedings continued a 3-year upward trend, increasing by 7% compared to last year, to 14,600. Within the Chancery Division, all proceedings increased by between 5% and 10%, with Bankruptcy Court proceedings having the highest increase, 10% to 1,200. (RCJ Table 3.1)

Applications filed in companies court proceedings, London, increased by 12% in 2024 from 9,400 to 10,500. This was driven by increases in all petition categories: Winding-up application petitions increased by 13% to 5,500, Originating applications by 11% to 1,400, Non-originating applications by 11% to 3,400, and Claims transferred in by 4% to 85. (RCJ Table 3.5)

The High Court – The King’s Bench - had 4,100 proceedings started in 2024, a decrease of 7% compared to 2023. Of these proceedings, the most common types in 2024 were for “personal injury actions”, “miscellaneous”, “clinical negligence” and “other negligence”, which made up 24%, 21%, 19% and 19% of all proceedings respectively. These 4 were also the most common types last year, in the same order. The share for personal injury has fallen by 6 percentage points, whereas the share for miscellaneous has increased by 2 percentage points compared to 2023, when the shares were 30%, 19%, 18% and 18% respectively. Please note that King’s Bench 2023 figures have been revised from the 2023 publication. (RCJ Table 4.2)

Commercial Court decreased by 25% compared to the series maximum last year, from 1,400 to 1,100 claims. The largest category of claim remains “General commercial contracts and arrangements, including agency agreements”, with 260 such claims issued in 2024, a decrease of 10% from last year. “Arbitration applications and appeals” were a close second, with 250 claims, an increase of 25% compared to 2023. (RCJ Table 5.4)

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10. Judicial Sitting Days

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Days sat by Judge^{[footnote 9]} - there were 326,000 days sat by judges in 2024, a 4% decrease from the series maximum last year of 339,000.

The fall in overall sitting days was driven by decreases across all areas of the County Court, with total County Court sitting days down 8% compared to 2023 from 207,000 to 190,000 (RCJ Table 9.2).

This was partially offset by an increase in Crown Court sittings, which rose by 5% compared to 2023 from 112,000 to 117,000 sitting days. This is the highest level in the timeseries and formed around a third of all sitting days in 2024. Similarly, the Criminal Court of Appeal sittings increased by 5% to 2,500 sitting days (RCJ Table 9.2).

The High Court sitting days decreased by 7%, driven mainly by a fall in the King’s Bench Division, which decreased by 19% in 2024. The Civil Court of Appeal saw a similar decrease over this period of 7% (RCJ Table 9.2).

Circuit judges continue to make up the largest proportion of days sat (38% of all days sat in 2024). The highest increase in days sat by type of judge was registered for High Court Judges and Circuit judges, with increases of 30% to 14,000 and 3% to 123,000 respectively compared to 2023, whereas days sat by Deputy District Judges fell by 19% to 37,000 over the same period.

Days sat decreased across almost all regions in 2024, except South East, which remained stable, and the Royal Courts of Justice, which increased by 31% (RCJ Table 9.3).

The statistics in this publication refer specifically to Judicial Sitting days and is therefore not directly comparable with the Crown Court Sitting day figures published by HMCTS Management Information here: HMCTS management information - March 2025 - GOV.UK. For a detailed explanation of the differences between the publications please refer to the accompanying guide here.

For further information on these summarised figures or on the statistics available in relation to the appeals courts’, please see the accompanying tables; ‘Royal Courts of Justice and Judicial Sitting Days, 2024’.

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11. Further information

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11.1 Provisional data and revisions

The statistics in the latest quarter are provisional and revisions may be made when the next edition of this bulletin is published. If revisions are needed in subsequent quarters, these will be annotated in the tables.

11.2 Accompanying files

As well as this bulletin, the following products are published as part of this release:

• A supporting document providing further information on how the data is collected and processed, as well as information on the revisions policy and legislation relevant to civil justice.
• The quality statement published with this guide sets out our policies for producing quality statistical outputs for the information we provide to maintain our users’ understanding and trust.
• A set of overview tables (also available in accessible format) and CSV files, covering each section of this bulletin. These can be found here.
• A set of tables providing statistics on the Business and Property Courts of England and Wales, also available in accessible format.
• A Judicial Review data visualisation tool (to provide a more granular view of the JR data by department and case type). This can be found here.
• A Sankey tool which shows case progression of civil cases in the county courts is here.
• A Civil data visualisation tool to provide a more granular and interactive view of cases through the civil claims system. This can be found here.
• Annual tables on data for the Royal Courts of Justice up to December 2024 are included within this publication. This can be found here.

11.3 Rounding convention

Figures greater than 10,000 are rounded to the nearest 1,000, those between 1,000 and 10,000 are rounded to the nearest 100 and those between 100 to 1,000 are rounded to the nearest 10. Less than 100 are given as the actual number.

11.4 National Statistics status

National Statistics status are accredited official statistics that meet the highest standards of trustworthiness, quality and public value.

Accredited official statistics are called National Statistics in the Statistics and Registration Service Act 2007. These accredited official statistics were independently reviewed by the Office for Statistics Regulation in January 2019. They comply with the standards of trustworthiness, quality and value in the Code of Practice for Statistics and should be labelled ‘accredited official statistics’.

It is the Ministry of Justice’s responsibility to maintain compliance with the standards expected for National Statistics. If we become concerned about whether these statistics are still meeting the appropriate standards, we will discuss any concerns with the Authority promptly. National Statistics status can be removed at any point when the highest standards are not maintained, and reinstated when standards are restored.

11.5 Future publications

Our statisticians regularly review the content of publications. Development of new and improved statistical outputs is usually dependent on reallocating existing resources. As part of our continual review and prioritisation, we welcome user feedback on existing outputs including content, breadth, frequency and methodology. Please send any comments you have on this publication including suggestions for further developments or reductions in content.

11.6 Contacts

Press enquiries should be directed to the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) press office:

Sarah Cottrill - email: sarah.cottrill@justice.gov.uk

Other enquiries about these statistics should be directed to the Courts and People division of the Ministry of Justice:

Matteo Chiesa - email: cajs@justice.gov.uk

Next update: 4 September 2025

1. From 16th November 2023 to 17th July 2024, a small proportion (approximately 14%) of data relating to stages from allocation to track to final hearing may be missing, incomplete or not correctly represented for money claims and damages claims. This is due to some of these cases progressing on the damages and online money claims systems, rather than the legacy CaseMan system. On 17th July 2024 a manual work around was implemented which has resolved the issue. ↩

2. Since the launch of the Damages Claims service in May 2021 some cases submitted to the damages claims portal have been incorrectly assigned as personal injury case type, even in cases which should have been classified as other damages claims. This has been resolved from March 2025, however, cannot be retrospectively corrected. This means data from May 2021 to March 2025 is not comparable to previous periods, and so caution should be used when looking at historic trends. ↩ ↩²

3. Following the alignment of the fees for online and paper civil money and possession claims in May 2021, figure 2 shows all data with the updated claim brackets for comparison, a further breakdown of these brackets is available within the CSV. The CSV shows updated claim brackets from 2021. ↩

4. This includes claims for the Civil National Business Centre (CNBC), Courts and Tribunals Service Centre Salford, and County Court Online. ↩

5. PART 28 - THE FAST TRACK AND THE INTERMEDIATE TRACK - Civil Procedure Rules (justice.gov.uk) ↩

6. Judgment by admission is where the defendant admits the truth of the claim made. ↩

7. The judicial review data are Official Statistics ↩

8. See footnote on the Royal Courts of Justice table 2.1 for the full list of other receipt applications. ↩

9. These figures represent only the days sat in court or in chambers in the following jurisdictions: Court of Appeal (Criminal and Civil), High Court (Chancery Division, Queen’s Bench Division, Family Division, Technology and Construction Court), Crown Court and County Court (including Family Law). Judges sit in other areas (including High Court hearings in regional County Courts) and also undertake a range of other functions outside the courtroom that are not included here. ↩