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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    
 
Obscene Articles Tribunal
CASELOAD AND CASE DISPOSAL OF THE OBSCENE ARTICLES TRIBUNAL
 
    Caseload Disposal*
    2005 2006 2007 2005 2006 2007
Articles for determination
22 916 76 929 69 055 25 340 76 623 69 596
Articles for classification
1 746 1 766 1 157 1 747 1 755 1 159
Articles for review
8 16 9 4 15 0
Articles for reconsideration
0 3 0 1 3 0
  Total 24 670 78 714 70 221 27 092 78 396 70 755
* Case disposal refers to those articles which have been determined or classified; those in respect of which determination or classification is not required with consent of both parties; and those in respect of which determination or classification have been reviewed or reconsidered
 
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WAITING TIME FOR CASES IN THE OBSCENE ARTICLES TRIBUNAL
 
    Waiting Times (days)
    Target 2005 2006 2007
From referral by a magistrate to commencement of determination of the subject matter of a court case
21 15 19 17
From receipt of application to classification
5 2 2 2
From receipt of application to review
35 21 27 26
From receipt of application to reconsideration
35 - 32 -
* As there is no application for reconsideration filed for 2005 and 2007, the waiting time is inapplicable
 
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