Citizen Survey	(CSD Q601)
	If something bad happened to you, do you think you would get justice?	Women	N	Men	N
	Yes	65.6%	625	59.1%	575
	Citizen Survey	(CSD Q602)
	Where would you go to get justice if something bad happened to you	Traditional local arbiters					Sponsored local arbiters	State Distict	State Upazilla	None
		respected member of the community	UP Chair	elected representative (not including UP Chair)	Shalish	Total	Village court, NGO, Other	Courts	Police	Nowhere	N
	Women	16.3%	20.0%	5.1%	0.8%	42.2%	1.0%	18.4%	2.5%	16.3%	625
	Men	27.8%	14.6%	9.3%	3.0%	54.7%	1.5%	13.4%	1.2%	26.8%	575
	Citizen Survey	CSD Q501	SCD Q301	CSD Q201
	Have never used	Formal court	Village court	Shalish
					N
	Women	97%	99.5%	88%	625
	Men	85.1%	98.8%	69.6%	575
	Practitioner Survey, People Outside Court				N
	Most common attitudes among people attending court:	Cases run too long	Standing room only	Plaintiff doesn't always attend	26
	Practitioner Survey, Holding Cells
	Experiences of detainees awaiting Court appearance in Court holding cells:	Were represented by a lawyer	Agreed that lawyers did not attend all scheduled appearances	Understood what was happening with their cases	N
	Women	80.0%	100.0%	40.0%	5
	Men	90.2%	100.0%	0.0%	51
	Chief Judicial Magistrate's Court (CJM) Case Processing (2012)
	Cases carried over from previous year	New cases	Total carried over and new cases	Convictions	Acquittals	Other	Guilty Pleas	Total cases disposed	Cases carried forward into next year	Pending caseload growth rate	Percent total  annual caseload carried forward
	18735	19719	38454	721	8931	5940	1553	17145	21309	13.7%	55.4%
	Note About Data
	Criminal case processing data from the Supreme Court confirms overall numbers of cases facing the court and unresolved cases carried forward, but without a breakdown of case disposal categories.
	Age of (CJM) Pending Cases (2012)
	Year of case filing	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	Total	% of cases pending more than 5 years
	Number of cases	15	17	29	215	80	275	310	271	345	472	570	383	1208	815	2540	2170	2840	4130	16685	25.1%
	Note About Data
	Total pending cases reported for the CJM at the end of 2012 (16685) are not consistent with pending cases carried forward into 2013 (21309), undercounting by 4624 cases (22%).
	District Sessions Court (DSC) Case Processing (2012)
	Criminal Cases carried over from previous year	New cases	Total carried over and new cases	Convictions	Acquittals	Other	Guilty Pleas	Total cases disposed	Cases carried forward into next year	Pending caseload growth rate	Percent total  annual caseload carried forward
	6130	8986	15116	no data	no data	7351	no data	7351	7765	26.7%	51.4%
	Civil Cases carried over from previous year	New cases	Total carried over and new cases	Convictions	Acquittals	Other	Guilty Pleas	Total cases disposed	Cases carried forward into next year	Pending caseload growth rate	Percent total  annual caseload carried forward
	10554	6804	17358	no data	no data	no data	no data	4205	13153	24.6%	75.8%
	Total DSC cases carried over from previous year	Total DSC New cases	Total Criminal and Civil carried over and new cases
	16684	15790	32474
	Note About Data
	No breakdown of case disposal categories available from District Sessions Court. Criminal case processing data from the Supreme Court confirms overall numbers of cases facing the court and unresolved cases carried forward.
	Age of (DSC) Pending Cases (2012)
	Year of case filing		1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	% of cases pending more than 5 years
	Number of cases	NO DATA
	Nari-o-Shishu Court Case Processing (2012)
	Cases carried over from previous year	New cases	Total carried over and new cases	Total cases disposed	Cases carried forward into next year	Pending caseload growth rate	Percent total  annual caseload carried forward
	2955	1631	4586	1301	3285	11.2%	71.6%
	Note About Data
	Nari-o-Shishu Court unable to provide number of cases carried over from previous year,  cases carried forward into next year, nor a breakdown of disposal categories.  Supreme Court data confirmed new cases and disposed cases and supplemented cases carried over and carried forward.
	Age of NOS Pending Cases (2012)
	Year of case filing		1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	% of cases pending more than 5 years
	Number of cases	NO DATA
	Practitioner Survey, Magistrates  Court (N:1), Bench assistant (N:1)
	Most common characterization of formal justice processes from practitioners at Judicial magistrates courts	Av no. adjournments per case	Main reason for adjournments	Av time to complete trial	Proportion of trials ending in a guilty plea	Proportion of offences compounded	Proportion accused rep by lawyer	Any pre-trial review to expdite case disposal	Local co-ordination mechanism for justice actors to meet regularly to discuss local justice situation	proportion of accused who are women	most common crimes of which women accused
		1) no response; 2) 10-25	witness not present	6 - 24 months	very few	when they are compoundable	most	when parties request it	yes	1) 5-10%; 2) no response	dishonesty
	Practitioner Survey, DS Court, Bench assistant, lawyers at court, Prosecutor cross check (N:6)
	Most common characterization of formal justice processes from practitioners at DS courts	Av no. adjournments per case	Main reason for adjournments	Av time to complete trial	Proportion of trials ending in a guilty plea	Proportion of offences compounded	proportion accused rep by lawyer	any pre-trial review to expdite case disposal	local co-ordination mechanism for justice actors to meet regularly to discuss local justice situation	proportion of accused who are women	most common crimes of which women accused
		10 - 25	witness not present	6 - 24 months	very few	very few	most	no	no	10%	narcotics
	Citizen Survey	(CSD Q507)
	Single most important reason for having the crime against you dealt with through the formal court (top 4 responses):	Will get justice	Told it is the right place to go	Quickest process	Easy to get to	N
	Women	54.5%	27.3%	0.0%	9.1%	11
	Men	66.7%	4.8%	14.3%	0.0%	21
	Citizen Survey	(CSD Q204)
	Single most important reason for having the crime against you dealt with outside the formal court with Shalish (top 4 responses):	Easy to get to	Quickest process	Will get justice	Told it is the right place to go	N
	Women	51.0%	5.9%	11.8%	5.9%	51
	Men	17.3%	41.7%	28.8%	2.9%	139
	Village Court (VC) Case Processing (2012)
		New cases			Cases appealed	Cases implemented
		Women	Men	Total
	See list of individual Village Courts in Infrastructure tab	No data	No data	No data	No data	No data
	Practitioner Survey, VC Member and Administration (N:8)
	Most common characterization of cases and processes from practitioners at 4 sampled Village Courts in Bara Para, Bijoypur, Baishgaon, and Nather union parishads:	More than 50% applicants are women	Main complaints: Family related, domestic violence, dowry and land disputes	Case disposed of between 1-2 hrs and a day	Very few cases appealed to the CJM	Average monthly caseload of 2 - 10	Court proceedings are held once or twice a week	70% - 80% of cases are implemented
	Practitioner Survey, VC Outside Court (N:51)						N
	Most common attitudes of Village Court users outside 4 sampled Village Courts in Bara Para, Bijoypur, Baishgaon, and Nather union parishads:	Overall satisfaction with process and results	Less costly than formal court	Cases disposed of quickly	Easy to get justice	No harrassment by officials or staff	51
	Shalish Case Processing
	Practitioner Survey, Shalishkar (N:8)
	Most common characterization of cases and processes from 8 Shalishkar practitioners:	80% applicants are women	Top 3 main complaints are dowry, assault, polygamy issues	Average monthly caseload is between 10 and 40	Resolve between 6 and 20 cases per month	Refer 2-3 cases to police per month	90% cases maintain the settlement agreed to in Shalish	Main challenge faced with police is lack of co-operation -don't want to listen to anything	Restitution is the most common resolution
	Citizen Survey	(CSD Q208a, 207, 208d)					Data note
		Case resolution was reached	Case was resolved in under one month	Issue had a fair hearing	N		Data suggests negative framing of question caused confusion (in translation). High rates of compliance appear to be recorded. Answer here: 10% not complied with
	Women	92.6%	89.7%	83.8%	68
	Men	92.1%	93.3%	94.5%	165