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

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


Criminal Registered & Scheduled Trials

Since the initial lockdown in March 2020, there have been 147,985 criminal registrations in the courts. 636 of these registrations have been COVID-19 related (0.4%).

In January 2022, all types of court registration remained lower than 2019-20 averages.

Cases Registered 19-20 monthly average January 2022 Change from
19-20 monthly average
Outstanding trials March 2020 Outstanding trials January 2022
Indictments
High Court 85 68 -17 (-20%) 390 534
Sheriff Court 454 425 -29 (-6%) 497 2,212
Complaints
Sheriff Court 5,458 4,614 -844 (-15%) 13,971 32,759
JP Court 2,799 1,787 -1,012 (-36%) 3,497 8,101

At the end of January 2022 there were 43,606 trials outstanding. This compares to 18,355 at the end of 2019-20. In addition, SCTS have forecast that there are another 1,564 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

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