Coronavirus (COVID-19): Justice Analytical Services data report- February 2022

This pack provides information on the impact of COVID-19 on the Justice system during February 2022.


Criminal Registered and Scheduled Trials

Since the initial lockdown in March 2020, there have been 154,218 criminal registrations in the courts. Six-hundred and forty-eight of these registrations have been COVID-19 related (0.4%).

In February 2022, only summary court registrations were below 19-20 averages.

Cases Registered 19-20 monthly average February 2022 Change from 19-20 monthly average Outstanding trials March 2020 Outstanding trials February 2022
Indictments
High Court 85 90 5 (6%) 390 535
Sheriff Court 454 525 71 (16%) 497 2,196
Complaints
Sheriff Court 5,458 4,007 -1,451 (-27%) 13,971 31,904
JP Court 2,799 1,611 -1,188 (-42%) 3,497 7,868

At the end of February 2022 there were 42,503 trials outstanding. This compares to 18,355 at the end of 2019-20. In addition, SCTS have forecast that there are another 1,652 cases in the system, which are likely to come to trial but have not yet had a trial date set (see SCTS published monthly criminal statistics for more detail).

Contact

Email: Justice_Analysts@gov.scot

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