Civil justice statistics in Scotland: 2015-2016

Statistics on civil justice, which aims to resolve a range of disputes from debt and eviction to divorce.


Table 24: Petitions for judicial review initiated and disposed of 1,2 in the Petition Department of the Court of Session, 2008-09 to 2015-16

2008-09 2009-10 2010-11 2011-12 2012-13 2013-14 2014-15 2015-16 % change
since 2014-15
% change
since 2008-09
Initiated Judicial review
Environmental 0 0 2 2 1 3 4 1 -75 z
Housing 2 1 4 1 0 1 2 13 550 550
Immigrants 177 210 266 195 224 231 323 393 22 122
Licensing board 0 1 1 0 1 1 1 0 -100 z
Planning permission 5 10 8 11 8 6 12 7 -42 40
Prison authorities 18 107 7 3 10 17 17 24 41 33
Social security benefits 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 3 200 z
Other 30 49 54 31 48 49 39 55 41 83
Total 232 378 342 243 293 308 399 496 24 114
Disposed Judicial review
Environmental 0 0 1 2 1 2 0 1 z z
Housing 5 1 3 1 0 1 1 7 600 40
Immigrants 153 168 182 267 229 203 229 314 37 105
Licensing board 1 1 0 2 0 1 1 1 0 0
Planning permission 4 7 5 11 12 4 7 12 71 200
Prison authorities 15 18 12 95 101 19 10 23 130 53
Social security benefits 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 z
Other 34 32 39 34 26 40 38 43 13 26
Total 212 227 242 412 370 270 287 402 40 90

1. Changes were made to the case types and final disposals recorded by the Court of Session from 2009-10 which affects the ability to compare petition type.
2. Figures for initiations and disposals do not necessarily refer to the same cases.
3. z refers to data not being applicable.

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