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Highlights of Events in 2007
List of Judges and Judicial Officers
Caseload, Disposal and Court Waiting Time at Different Level of Courts
Membership List of the Steering Committee on Civil Justice Reform
Membership List of the Working Party on Mediation
Membership List of the Working Party on Solicitors' Rights of Audience
Membership List of the Court Users' Committees
Membership List of the Judicial Studies Board
Judiciary Administration
Training Activities Organised / Co-ordinated by the Judicial Studies Board
Number of Visits and Vistors to the Judiciary
Expenditure and Revenue of the Judiciary in 2006-07
Complaints against Judges and Judicial Officers
Complaints against the Judiciary Administration
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Overall picture on caseload and disposal at all Court levels

Court of Final Appeal High Court
District Court Magistrates' Courts
Lands Tribunal Labour Tribunal
Small Claims Tribunal Obscene Articles Tribunal
Coroner's Court    
 
District Court
CASELOAD AND CASE DISPOSAL OF THE DISTRICT COURT
 
Caseload Disposal*
    2005 2006 2007 2005 2006 2007
Criminal Jurisdiction
  Criminal Cases 1 349 1 199 1 240 1 248 1 151 1 152
Civil Jurisdiction
  Civil 6 564 6 381 5 764 4 383 4 079 3 709
  Tax Claim 10 857 10 323 9 773 10 392 9 074 8 944
  Distress for Rent 7 453 6 194 5 392 7 419 6 233 5 388
  Employee's Compensation 1 550 1 791 1 534 1 190 1 481 1 769
  Other civil cases + 5 592 6 259 6 357 3 096 3 292 3 801
  Sub-total 32 016 30 948 28 820 26 480 24 159 23 611
Divorce Jurisdiction            
  Cases 14 956 16 410 15 846 13 384 15 667 16 692
  Miscellaneous Proceedings 222 249 221 194 225 227
  Joint Applications 1 647 1 762 1 957 1 489 1 757 1 711
  Adoption Applications 122 123 107 97 110 91
  Sub-total 16 947 18 544 18 131 15 164(1) 17 759(1) 18 721(1)
  Total (Civil) 48 963 49 492 46 951 41 644 41 918 42 332
  Total 50 312 50 691 48 191 42 892 43 069 43 484
               
Master Chambers            
  Interlocutory hearings** 10 596 10 953 10 596 10 326 10 656 10 323
Taxation bills            
  Divorce 3 383 4 139 4 264 2 499 3 514 3 851
  Others 587 671 725 438 445 623
  Sub-total 3 970 4 810 4 989 2 937(2) 3 959(2) 4 474(2)
  Total 14 566 15 763 15 585 13 263 14 615 14 797
* Case disposal refers to those where defendants have been convicted or acquitted and those where claims have been successfully made or dismissed
+ Other civil cases include Miscellaneous Proceedings, Stamp Duty (Ordinance) Appeals, Equal Opportunities Actions, Personal Injuries Cases, Occupational Deafness (Compensation) Appeals, Pneumoconiosis (Compensation) Appeals and Estate Agents Appeals
** The caseload figure represents the number of interlocutory applications listed with hearings, and the disposal figure represents the number of the interlocutory applications heard in the reporting period
  Note (1) : Case disposal refers to Decree Absolute granted and Adoption orders made
  Note (2) : Case disposal refers to taxation bills processed
 
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WAITING TIME FOR CASES IN THE DISTRICT COURT
 
    Waiting Times (days)
    Target 2005 2006 2007
Criminal cases - from first appearance of defendants in District Court to hearing
 100 112 117 98
Civil cases - from date of listing to hearing 120 120 125 58
Dissolution of marriage - from setting down to hearing
       
Special procedure cases
 35 29 45 33
Defended cases (one day hearing)
 110 120 115 119
 
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