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Civil Justice Statistics Quarterly: January to March 2026

Updated 11 June 2026

Applies to England and Wales

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1. Main Points
Increase in County Court claims, driven mostly by money claims Compared to the same period in 2025, County Court claims from January to March 2026 were up 7% to 527,000. Of these, 450,000 (85%) were money claims (up 10%).
Damages claims were down 11% to 28,000 The decrease in damages claims was driven by a fall in personal damages claims (down 23% to 11,000) compared to the same quarter in 2025.
The number of claims defended increased; while the number of trials decreased There were 72,000 claims defended (up 13%) and 13,000 claims that went to trial in January to March 2026 (down 6%) compared to the same quarter in 2025.
Median time taken from claim to hearing has fallen for all tracks The median time taken for small claims to go to trial was 37.6 weeks in January to March 2026, 5.1 weeks faster than the same period in 2025. The median time taken for fast/intermediate/multi track claims to go to trial was 10.7 weeks faster than the same period last year, at 54.3 weeks in the current quarter.
Judgments were down 8% and default judgments were down 6% Judgments were down 8% (to 256,000) in January to March 2026, compared to the same period in 2025; with 94% of these being default judgments.
Enforcement applications fell to 11,000 and orders fell to 8,900 Enforcement applications were down 24%, and enforcement orders were down 17% in January to March 2026 when compared to the same quarter in 2025.
Warrants issued increased to 112,000 Warrants issued were up 67% when compared to the same quarter in 2025.
1,300 judicial review applications There were 1,300 applications for Judicial Reviews in Q1 2026, up 98% on Q1 2025.

This publication gives Civil County Court and Judicial Review Statistics for the latest quarter (January to March 2026), compared to the same quarter in 2025. 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 2025. 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

2. Statistician’s comment

County court claims received and claims defended both increased this quarter compared to the same quarter in 2025, with claims received rising to the highest level since Q3 2019. Warrants issued increased significantly over the same period, to the highest level since Q3 2018, after falling sharply in the previous two quarters. Warrants volumes are largely driven by bulk user behaviour and as such can fluctuate significantly. In contrast, allocations to track, claims gone to trial, judgments, enforcement-related applications and orders made decreased over the same period.

The median average time taken for small track and fast/intermediate/multi track claims to reach trial both continued to decrease this quarter, falling by 5.1 and 10.7 weeks respectively compared to the same quarter in 2025. For fast/intermediate/multi track claims this is the fastest median average time between claim issue and trial since the timeseries began in 2022.

There were 1,300 judicial review applications received this quarter, up 98% on the previous year. This is the highest level since Q4 2015, driven by a rise in civil (other) and civil immigration and asylum applications.

3. Claims Summary

County court claims were up 7% on the same quarter of 2025, driven mostly by money claims.

Non-money claim volumes were at 48,000, down 4% when compared to the same quarter in 2025.

Figure 1: Quarterly County Court claims by type, Q1 (January to March) 2021 to Q1 (January to March) 2026 (Source: table 1.2)

In the most recent quarter, total claims were up 7% compared to the same period in 2025 (from 491,000 to 527,000). Of these, 478,000 were money and damages claims, up 9% from January to March 2025 (from 440,000). Money and damages claims made up 91% of all claims in January to March 2026, up 1pp on its share in January to March 2025.

Non-money claims were down 4% (from 51,000 to 48,000) in the current quarter compared to the same period in 2025, mostly driven by a decrease in Mortgage and Landlord Possession claims.

Within non-money claims, ‘other’ non-money claims showed a general decline from 2018. This decrease is likely to be partly the result of whiplash reforms reducing the volume of road traffic accident claims going to court. However, since Q2 2022, these have remained relatively stable, up 3% (from 17,000 to 18,000) in the latest quarter compared to the same period in 2025.

Similarly, Mortgage and Landlord Possession claims have remained relatively stable in previous quarters, yet have fallen slightly in the latest quarter with 28,000 claims recorded in January to March 2026, down 9% compared to the same quarter of 2025 (31,000 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 7% (from 2,800 to 3,000) compared to the same period in 2025.

4. Money and Damages Claims

Money claims were up 10% (to 450,000 claims) in January to March 2026 compared to the same quarter in 2025.

Damages claims[footnote 1] were down 11% to 28,000, driven by a decrease in personal injury claims (down 23%) to 11,000 compared to the same quarter in 2025.

Figure 2: Money claims by monetary value, Q1 (January to March) 2021 to Q1 (January to March) 2026 (Source: civil workload CSV[footnote 2])

Almost all (over 99%) money claims are processed and issued at the Civil National Business Centre (CNBC)[footnote 3]. There were 449,000 such claims at the CNBC in January to March 2026 (up 10% on the same quarter in 2025).

The increase in the volume of money claims is mostly driven by claims valued under £500. These were up 20% to 213,000 claims in the period January to March 2026 compared to the same quarter in 2025.

Damages claims – made up of personal injury and other damages claims[footnote 4] - have fluctuated between 21,000 and 35,000 claims each quarter over the last five years (since January to March 2021). In the current quarter, volumes were down 11% to 28,000 compared to the same period in 2025. This was driven by a decrease in personal injury claims, down 23% from 15,000 to 11,000. Other damages claims volumes can be prone to volatility in quarterly volumes. These accounted for 59% of all damages claims in the most recent quarter, up 6pp compared to January to March 2025, when they accounted for 53% of all damages claims. The volume of other damages claims have increased in recent quarters 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 1 June 2024 onwards.

Personal injury claims[footnote 1] showed general decreases between Q3 2020 and Q1 2022, falling from 33,000 to 18,000, and has been gradually trending down since Q4 2022.

4.1 Allocations (table 1.3)

In January to March 2026, 33,000 money and damages claims were allocated to track, down 14% (from 38,000) compared to the same period in 2025. Compared to January to March 2025, of these allocations:

  • 21,000 were allocated to small claims, down 17% on January to March 2025. This accounts for 65% of all allocations (compared to 67% of all allocations in the same quarter of 2025).
  • 9,000 were allocated to fast track, down 10% on January to March 2025. This accounts for 27% of all allocations (compared to 26% of all allocations in the same quarter of 2025).
  • 730 were allocated to intermediate track, up 13% on January to March 2025. This accounts for 2% of all allocations (unchanged compared to the same quarter of 2025), although these are expected to increase as the new track is embedded.
  • 1,800 were allocated to multi-track, down 8% on January to March 2025. This accounts for 5% of all allocations (unchanged compared to the same quarter of 2025).

Note that the nature of reporting allocations data means the series can show short-term fluctuations, and larger changes when revised. Therefore, caution should be taken when comparing the current quarter to previous data in the time series.

The number of claims defended was up 13% to 72,000 compared to the same quarter in 2025.

The number of trials was down 6% to 13,000 compared to the same quarter in 2025.

Median average time taken from issue to trial for small claims was 37.6 weeks (5.1 weeks faster compared to the same quarter in 2025) and for fast, intermediate and multi-track claims it was 54.3 weeks (10.7 weeks faster than January to March 2025).

Of those claims defended in January to March 2026, 38% had legal representation for both claimant and defendant, 39% had representation for claimant only, and 3% for defendant only. Most (87%) damages claim defences had legal representation for both the defendant and claimant, compared with 25% of money claim defences.

Figure 3: Proportion of legal representation for each type of defence, January to March 2026 (Source: table 1.6)

The total number of claims defended was up 13% in January to March 2026 compared to the same quarter in 2025, from 64,000 to 72,000 cases. Money claim defences were up 22% from 42,000 to 51,000 compared to January to March 2025. On the contrary, a decrease was seen in defended damages claims (down 2% 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 13,000 trials in January to March 2026, down 6% compared to the same period in 2025. Of the claims that went to trial, 10,000 (76%) were small claims trials (down 7% compared to the same quarter in 2025) and 3,200 (24%) were fast, intermediate and multi-track trials (down 5% from the same quarter of 2025).

Timeliness data for the intermediate track has been included with the Fast and Multi track trials data from Q3 2024.

Figure 4: Average (mean/median) number of weeks from claim being issued to initial hearing date, Q1 (January to March) 2021 to Q1 (January to March) 2026 (Source: table 1.5)

In January to March 2026, it took a median time of 37.6 weeks between a small claim being issued and the claim going to trial, 5.1 weeks faster than the same period in 2025. 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 fast/intermediate/multi track claims, it took a median time of 54.3 weeks to reach a trial, 10.7 weeks faster than in January to March 2025.

Timeliness figures for the mean average are included in table 1.5 of the accompanying statistical tables.

6. Judgments

Judgments were down 8% compared to the same quarter in 2025.

Figure 5: All claims, judgments and default judgments, Q1 (January to March) 2021 to Q1 (January to March) 2026 (Source: tables 1.2 and 1.4)

There were 256,000 judgments made in January to March 2026, down 8% compared to the same quarter of 2025. Of these, 94% were default judgments, up 2pp on its share in January to March 2025. These remained relatively stable between 2018 and 2022, with around 9 out of every 10 judgments resulting in a default judgment. The proportion has generally increased from 2023, from 91% in Q1 2023 to 94% in Q1 2026.

The second largest type of judgment was ‘admissions’[footnote 5], of which there were 9,300 in January to March 2026, down 18% on the same quarter in 2025 (from 11,000). ‘Admission’ judgments accounted for 4% of all judgments in the current quarter.

7. Warrants and Enforcements

Warrants issued were up 67% when compared to the same quarter in 2025.

Enforcement applications were down 24% and enforcement orders were down 17% when compared to January to March 2025.

Figure 6: Warrants and enforcements issued – Q1 (January to March) 2021 to Q1 (January to March) 2026 (Source: tables 1.7 and 1.8)

7.1 Warrants (table 1.7)

In the latest quarter (January to March 2026) there were 112,000 warrants issued, up 67% (from 67,000) on the same quarter in 2025. Warrants of control accounted for 87% of total warrants, and were up 88%, from 52,000 to 98,000, compared to the same period in 2025. These volumes are largely driven by bulk user behaviour and as such can fluctuate significantly.

There were 14,000 possession warrants issued in January to March 2026, down 6% (from 15,000) on the same quarter in 2025. These had a general upwards trend from Q3 2020, following a sharp drop in Q2 2020 due to the impact of Covid-19, yet have remained relatively stable since the start of 2024.

7.2 Enforcements (table 1.8)

In January to March 2026, there were 11,000 enforcement-related order applications (which include attachment of earnings orders, charging orders, third party debt orders, administration orders, and orders to obtain information), down 24% compared to the same quarter of 2025. Attachment of earnings (AoE) applications were down 44%, third party debt applications remained stable, charging order applications down 13% and administration orders applications down 17%.

There were 8,900 enforcement-related orders made in January to March 2026, down 17% compared to the same quarter of 2025. AoE, charging orders and orders to obtain information fell, down 16%, 17% and 20% respectively (from 2,200 to 1,900, 6,600 to 5,500 and 1,700 to 1,400 respectively), driving the overall fall in volumes.

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 other methods instead to retrieve money, property or goods.

8. Judicial reviews[footnote 6]

There were 1,300 judicial review applications received in Q1 2026, up 98% on Q1 2025 (660).

Figure 7: Judicial Review Applications, by type; Q1 2021 to Q1 2026 (Source: table 2.1)

Of the 1,300 applications received in Q1 2026, 490 were civil immigration and asylum applications, 780 were civil (other)[footnote 7], which recorded its highest level since the start of the time series, and 32 were criminal, up 105%, 101% and 3% respectively from Q1 2025. Of the civil immigration and asylum cases, 5 have since been transferred to the UTIAC.

Of the applications that were made in Q1 2026, 12% are now closed. Of the total applications, 210 reached the permission stage in Q1 2026, and of these:

  • 12% (26) were found to be totally without merit.
  • 42 cases have already been granted permission or granted permission in part to proceed and 120 were refused at the permission stage. None of the cases refused at permission stage have so far gone on to be granted permission at the renewal stage.
  • 42 cases were assessed to be eligible for a final hearing and of these, 4 have since been heard.
  • The mean time from a case being lodged to the permission decision was 37 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 average 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 2026 are:

  • Home Office had the largest number of JR applications lodged against them, with 490 applications. Of these, 7 have so far been granted permission or granted permission in part to proceed to final hearing (1% of applications) to date.
  • The second largest recipient of JR cases was the Local Authorities, with 360 cases received, of which to date 25 have so far been granted permission or granted permission in part to proceed to final hearing (7% of applications).
  • The third largest recipient was the Ministry of Justice, having 180 applications lodged against it. Of these, 4 have so far been granted permission or granted permission in part to proceed to final hearing (2% 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.

9. Royal Courts of Justice

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. Key findings covering the year to 2025 are summarised below:

The Court of Appeal Criminal Division received 4,162 applications in 2025, broadly unchanged from 4,167 in 2024. This overall stability reflected different movements across application types, with conviction applications increasing by 4% to 1,181 and other[footnote 8] appeals rising from 202 to 393, while sentence applications fell by 8% to 2,588. (RCJ Table 2.1)

The Court of Appeal Civil Division had 576 appeals filed in 2025, a slight decrease of 1% compared with 582 in 2024. Immigration and asylum remained the largest source of appeals filed, accounting for 101 appeals (18% of all appeals filed), while total disposals increased by 8% from 465 to 504. The largest number of disposals in 2025 were dismissals, with 256 cases. (RCJ Table 2.3)

Civil Division mean timeliness from Appellant’s Notice filed to Permission to Appeal (PTA) decision remained stable at 14 weeks in 2025, unchanged from 2024. Mean timeliness from PTA granted to appeal hearing start increased from 29 weeks in 2024 to 31 weeks in 2025, while mean timeliness from appeal hearing start to hand down of judgment decreased from 7 weeks to 5 weeks over the same period. (RCJ Table 2.4)

Chancery Division: proceedings continued their recent upward trend, increasing by 15% from 14,561 in 2024 to 16,772 in 2025. This increase was driven mainly by a rise in Companies Court proceedings, which increased by 21% to 12,052, while Bankruptcy Court proceedings also increased, with bankruptcy petitions rising by 13% to 1,173. Claims issued and other originating proceedings remained broadly stable at 3,371. (RCJ Table 3.1)

Companies Court proceedings: Applications filed in Companies Court proceedings in London increased by 18% in 2025, from 10,481 in 2024 to 12,335. This was driven by increases in winding-up petitions, which rose by 16% to 6,411, originating applications, which increased by 34% to 1,892, and non-originating applications, which rose by 16% to 4,003, while claims transferred in fell from 85 to 29. (RCJ Table 3.5)

The High Court – The King’s Bench - had 3,895 proceedings started in 2025, a decrease of 6% compared with 4,140 in 2024. The most common types of proceedings in 2025 were personal injury actions (1,057), miscellaneous (916), clinical negligence (645) and other negligence (644), which accounted for 27%, 24%, 17% and 17% of all proceedings respectively. Compared with 2024, personal injury actions increased as a share of all proceedings, while clinical negligence and other negligence each fell slightly as a proportion of the total. (RCJ Table 4.2)

Interlocutory applications for Masters in London increased sharply in 2025, rising from 12,772 in 2024 to 23,474, an 84% increase. This substantial rise continues the upward trend observed since 2022 and may reflect a combination of restored counter services, increased footfall, and a shift by users towards the High Court for faster processing. HMCTS has also indicated that stay of enforcement applications may have contributed to the increase.

Enforcement proceedings issued decreased markedly in 2025, falling from 60,394 in 2024 to 24,563, a 59% decrease. This decline is largely driven by a reduction in writs of control (outside London), which fell from 58,633 in 2024 to 22,942 in 2025. However, this does not reflect a genuine reduction in underlying demand, but instead reflects a change in processing arrangements, with applications increasingly centralised to the Civil National Business Centre (CNBC) from March 2025.As a result, writs of control are phasing out from Royal Courts of Justice statistics, limiting comparability with previous years.

Commercial Court claims decreased slightly in 2025, falling by 4% from 1,055 in 2024 to 1,013. The largest category of claim remained general commercial contracts and arrangements, including agency agreements, with 259 claims issued, while arbitration applications and appeals remained at 249, unchanged from 2024. (RCJ Table 5.4)

10. Judicial Sitting Days

Days sat by Judge[footnote 9] - there were 327,000 days sat by judges in 2025, from 326,000 in 2024. Overall sitting days increased slightly by less than 1% over the year. (RCJ Table 9.1)

This small increase in total sitting days was driven mainly by the County Court, where total sitting days rose by 3% from 190,000 in 2024 to 196,000 in 2025. Increases were seen across the General List, Family Law, and Public and Private/Other Family jurisdictions. (RCJ Table 9.2)

This was partially offset by a decrease in Crown Court sitting days, which fell by 5% from 117,000 in 2024 to 111,000 in 2025. By contrast, Criminal Court of Appeal sitting days increased by 7% from 2,453 to 2,614 over the same period. (RCJ Table 9.2)

High Court sitting days increased in 2025, with rises in the Chancery Division, King’s Bench Division and Technology and Construction Court, while Family Division sitting days fell slightly. Civil Court of Appeal sitting days decreased by 7% from 2,879 in 2024 to 2,684 in 2025. (RCJ Table 9.2)

Circuit judges continued to account for the largest proportion of sitting days in 2025, with 121,550 days sat, representing around 37% of all sitting days. High Court judges recorded a 4% increase to 14,320 days sat, while Deputy District Judges increased by 18% to 43,031; Circuit judges, by contrast, fell by 2% compared with 2024. (RCJ Table 9.1)

Days sat increased in several regions in 2025, including the South East, Midlands, North East and the Royal Courts of Justice, while London and the South West saw decreases. Sitting days at the Royal Courts of Justice increased by 8% from 19,115 in 2024 to 20,666 in 2025. (RCJ Table 9.3)

Table 9_2 presents judicial sitting days for calendar years up to 2025. In recent years, HMCTS have published monthly Crown Court sitting days as part of their March Management Information publication, up to the end of the previous financial year (in the March 2026 release, they published monthly data covering up to financial year 2025/26).

Users should bear in mind that there are some important differences in how sittings days in each release are defined and presented.

The calendar years published in the MoJ data do not necessarily align with those in the monthly HMCTS data or wider public statements about sitting days, which tend to focus on financial years. The MoJ calendar year data suggests a large rise in days sat in 2024 followed by a reduction in 2025, whereas the monthly data available from the HMCTS monthly Management Information demonstrates a rise in both 2024/25 and 2025/26; however, summed across calendar years, the monthly data presents a similar picture to the MoJ data. Calendar year totals can differ from financial year totals, depending on the pattern of monthly sitting, planned and in year changes to profiling and judicial recruitment.

For these reasons, HMCTS monthly data is more responsive to policy changes and better reflects the nature of the concordat process on court sitting days, the dynamic nature of the series as policies evolve, including the increases to sitting days, and the resulting higher volumes in recent periods. For that reason, we recommend users consider the MoJ data published here alongside the HMCTS MI.

In addition, MoJ publishes the number of sitting days at an individual judge level, while the HMCTS MI publishes sitting days sat at a courtroom level. In practice, this means that if two judges sit in a court on the same day, MoJ will define this as two sitting days, one per judge, while the HMCTS MI will define this as one courtroom sitting day. Overall the MoJ judge level figures are around 3.7% percent higher.

Users should also bear in mind that many media statements on sitting days generally relate to the number of days allocated by government to the courts in each financial year, which in turn relates to planned funding levels. The data relating to days sat (whether published by MoJ or HMCTS as Management Information) covers outturn rather than allocations.

These important distinctions should be borne in mind by users interpreting the figures. Given these differences, we are reviewing how best to present this data to ensure users are given a timely story, to reflect the evolution of more timely monthly data being published by HMCTS and to avoid the calendar year approach risking misinterpretation. We welcome feedback from users and will consider these alongside internal uses of the data.

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, 2025’.

11. Further information

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 2025 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. Figures 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:

Emily Cornish - email: pressofficecourtslaw@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: 3 September 2026

  1. Since the launch of the Damages Claims service in May 2021 to March 2025 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 means data during this period is not comparable to the rest of the series, and so caution should be used when looking at historic trends. ↩ ↩2

  2. 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. ↩

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

  4. This category includes all damages claims that are not related to personal injury. ↩

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

  6. The judicial review data are Official Statistics ↩

  7. Civil (other) includes Homelessness, Town and Country Planning, and Disciplinary Bodies. For a full list of topics included in civil (other) please see section 3.2 of the publication guidance released alongside this publication. ↩

  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. ↩

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