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Case Processing Financial Year 2011/12

Case Processing Financial Year 2011/2012

Statistics on Case Processing April 2011 to December 2011

 

Reports Received

 

Criminal Reports

208,247

Death Reports

8,800

Total Reports Received

217,047

   

Non-Court Disposals

 

No Action

23,872

Warnings

8,784

Conditional Offers of Fixed Penalties Paid

15,599

Fiscal Fines Paid or deemed Accepted

32,610

Compensation Orders Paid or deemed Accepted

963

Combined Fiscal Fines/Compensation Orders

Paid or deemed Accepted

2,109

Other Non-Court Disposals

5,807

Total Non-Court Disposals

89,744

   

No Further Action

 

Total No Further Action (1)

21,352

   

Court Disposals

 

District Court:

 

Pleas (2)

25,083

Trials (3)

1,409

Total District Court Disposals

26,492

Sheriff Summary (4)

 

Pleas (2)

40,415

Trials (3)

3,494

Total Sheriff Summary Disposals

43,909

Sheriff and Jury:

 

Pleas (2)

2,575

Trials (3)

722

Total Sheriff and Jury Disposals

3,297

High Court:

 

Pleas (2)

242

Trials (3)

230

Total High Court Disposals

472

Total Court Disposals

74,170

   

Total Disposals

185,266

 

1 No Further Action = Cases which were closed after proceedings had been commenced or attempted (e.g. cases which were closed because the accused died, the accused could not be traced, a key witness was not available, etc.)

2 Pleas = Cases which were disposed of at court without any evidence being led.

3 Trials = Cases where some or all of the evidence was led.

4 Sheriff Summary cases include cases dealt with in the Stipendiary Magistrate's Court in Glasgow.

5 Total disposals will not equal total criminal cases received as some cases against the same accused will be linked and taken forward as one case. There is also a time lag between receipt of a case and final disposal so that, for example, some cases received in 2010-2011 will not have resulted in a disposal until 2011-2012.