Citizen Survey	Q601
	If something bad happened to you, do you think you would get justice?	Women	n	Men	n
	Yes	73.4%	609	63.5%	591
	Citizen Survey	Q602
	Where would you go to get justice if something bad happened to you?	Traditional Local arbiters	State Distict	Traditional Local arbiters	None	State Upazilla	Traditional Local arbiters		Sponsored Local arbiters
		respected member of the community	Courts	UP Chair	Nowhere	Police	Shalish	elected representative (not including UP Chair)	Village court, NGO, Other	N
	Women	35.6%	23.5%	13.6	8.7	8.5	2.5	2.1	0.5	609
	Men	38.1%	19.1%	12.5	22.0%	2.7	2.2	1.4	1.1	591
	Citizen Survey	Q501	Q301	Q201
	Have never used	Formal court	Village court	Shalish
					N
	Women	97%	99.8%	89.33%	609
	Men	85.1%	99.3%	65.8%	501
	Practitioner Survey, Public outside court	N:4
	Experiences of people at court	prior attendances up to 35 occasions	Of 4, 1 had given  evidence on 1 occasion	Costs of attending: between BDT250 to 3,000 and resulted in loss of time and money through missing work	Distance travelled: between 29 and 70 km
	Practitioner Survey
	Experiences of detainees awaiting Court appearance in Court holding cells:	Were represented by a lawyer	Agreed that lawyers did not attend all scheduled appearances	Prior attendance on the same case	Understood what was happening with their cases	N
	Women	Yes	No, lawyer attended all	10-25 times	Yes	1
	Men	most	No, lawyer attended all	1-9 times: 45 persons; 10-25 times: 4 persons; 25-50 times: 1 person	few	49
	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
	4844	7517	12361	78	625	6388	No data	7091	5270	8.8%
	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	% of cases pending more than 5 years
	Number of cases		0	0	0	1	2	2	7	2	19	25	31	44	84	148	153	415	533	1424	7.5%
	District Sessions Court (DSC) Case Processing (2012)
	Criminal Cases carried over from previous year	New Criminal 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
	1749	2075	3824	52	118	1521		1691	2133	22.0%
	Civil Cases carried over from previous year	New Civil 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
	5115	1629	6744					1257	5487	7.3%
	Total DSC cases carried over from previous year	Total DSC New cases	Total Criminal and Civil carried over and new cases
	6864	3704	10568
	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		0	1	0	0	0	1				5		79	67	227	140	148	272	635	9.7%
	Nari-o-Shishu Court 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
	447	222	669					100	569	27.3%
	Note About Data
	Supreme Court data closely approximates Nari-o-Shishu Court data provided.
	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		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	8	12	47	98	206
	Practitioner Survey
	Most common characterization of formal justice processes from practitioners at CJM 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 of false cases	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	N
		average 25	non attendance of witness	1 -2 years	very few	less than 50%	many	all	no but would be helpful	yes, facilitated by Madaripur Legal Aid Association	between 5% and 10%	narcotics	4
	Practitioner Survey, DS Court (N:1), Court Clerks (N:3) and Lawyers at court (N:2)	N:6											N
	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 of false cases	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	7
		25-50	non attendance of witness	more than 2 years	very few	1) criminal cases are not compoundable (DSC); 2) <50% (Lawyer at court)	some	most	no but would be helpful	yes, facilitated by Madaripur Legal Aid Association	5%	narcotics
	Citizen Survey	Q507
	Single most important reason for having the crime against you dealt with through the formal court:	Will get justice	Quickest process	Told it is the right place to go	N
	Women	40.0%	20.0%	0.0%	5
	Men	40.0%	6.7%	20.0%	15
	Citizen Survey	Q204
	Single most important reason for having the crime against you dealt with by Shalish:	Will get justice	Quickest process	Easy to get to	Told it is the right place to go	N
	Women	39.0%	2.4%	26.8%	9.8%	41
	Men	20.0%	37.4%	22.2%	1.2%	171
	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 VC Administration	N:6
	Most common characterization of cases and processes from Interviews of UP members and VCAs	average 25% applicants are women	Main complaints: assault,  disputes over property, disputes over money	Case disposed of in 1-2 hrs	Very few cases appealed to the CJM	Average monthly caseload 3-4	Court proceedings are held once a  week
	Interview Responses, VC outside court	N: 12 persons outside 3 VCs
	Most common attitudes of Village Court users	short time for case to be resolved, longest 4 - 5 weeks, shortest 18 days	av costs to attend: BDT 20 (highest: BDT 70)	unanimous satisfaction with the hearing
	Shalish Case Processing
	Practitioner Survey
	Most common characterization of cases and processes from 12 Shalishkar practitioners:	20 -40%  applicants are women	Top 3 main complaints assault, dowry polygamy, land	Average monthly caseload is between 2 and 40	Resolve 2 -3 or 14 - 15 cases each month - varies depending on which Shalish	Refer few cases to police 2 or not more than 10 a month	75 - 95% cases maintain the settlement agreed to in Shalish	Main challenge faced with police - bribery, and fear of them	Restitution is the most common resolution	Issue takes from 1 week to maximum of 1 month to resolve
	Citizen Survey	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.
	Women	82.3%	88.7%	87.1%	62
	Men	90.2%	84.0%	92.8%	194