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Highlights of Events in 2008
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 Court Users' Committees
Membership List of the Judicial Studies Board
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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 2007-08
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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*
    2006 2007 2008 2006 2007 2008
Articles for determination
76 929 69 055 43 533 76 623 69 596 42 404
Articles for classification
1 766 1 157 931 1 755 1 159 933
Articles for review
16 9 2 15 0 2
Articles for reconsideration
3 0 0 3 0 0
  Total 78 714 70 221 44 466 78 396 70 755 43 339
* 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 2006 2007 2008
From referral by a magistrate to commencement of determination of the subject matter of a court case
21 19 17 18
From receipt of application to classification
5 2 2 2
From receipt of application to review
35 27 26 19
From receipt of application to reconsideration
35 32 - -
* As there is no application for reconsideration filed for 2007 and 2008, the waiting time is inapplicable

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