| COMILLA Cases (estimated 2013) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Cases carried forward from previous year | Estimated New Cases | Estimated Cases ending in conviction | Estimated Cases dismissed | Estimated Cases diverted | Cases pending (average per month) | |||||||||||||
| Men | Women | Total | Men | Women | Total | Men | Women | Total | Men | Women | Total | men | women | total | ||||
| No data | No data | No data | 9800 | No data | No data | No data | 5100 | 966 | 6066 | No data | No data | No data | No data | No data | 392 | |||
| Data note | ||||||||||||||||||
| See Trends data. Data for Jan-Jun 2013 aggregated and multiplied by 2 to present an estimate of case figures for 2013. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Age of cases pending | no data | |||||||||||||||||
| Case management | ||||||||||||||||||
| Practitioner Survey, Prosecution (N:1) + Lawyers at Court (N:3) | DATA NOTE | |||||||||||||||||
| When does a prosecutor first review a case file? | Before charge is laid | N: | 2 | where finding representes consensus of practitioners, no number breakdown is given. Where responses differ, they are broken down by the Number of practitioners giving the particular response | ||||||||||||||
| After charge is laid. | N: | 1 | ||||||||||||||||
| Case referral to police | No power | N: | 1 | |||||||||||||||
| Mechanism for pre-trial review where prosecution and defence can discuss plea, evidence and witnesses? | No | N | 2 | |||||||||||||||
| If the parties agree | N | 1 | ||||||||||||||||
| How many cases do prosecutors manage in a day? | over 100 | N | 1 | |||||||||||||||
| 1 | N | 1 | ||||||||||||||||
| 60 | N | 1 | ||||||||||||||||
| % women victims | no data | |||||||||||||||||
| % women accused | No exact figure | N | 1 | |||||||||||||||
| less than 5% | N | 1 | ||||||||||||||||
| over 10% | N | 2 | ||||||||||||||||
| 5 most common offences tried in your district? | 1) Smuggling, Theft, Political violence, Narcotics and Women oppression for dowry. | |||||||||||||||||
| Case Flow - Pre trial | ||||||||||||||||||
| Practitioner Survey, Prosecution Cross Check (N:1) and Lawyers at Court (N:3) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Av time: FIR to trial in the CJM? | 9 to 12 months, sometimes longer | N | 1 | |||||||||||||||
| Av time: FIR to trial in the DSC? | Over 12 months sometimes longe | N | 1 | |||||||||||||||
| Av time: FIR to trial in the NOS? | Over 12 months | N | 1 | |||||||||||||||
| Av no of adjournments pre-trial in CJM | 10 to 25 | N | 1 | |||||||||||||||
| Av no of adjournments pre-trial in DSC | 25-50, sometimes less | N | 1 | |||||||||||||||
| 5 to 10 | N | 1 | ||||||||||||||||
| 10 to 25 | N | 2 | ||||||||||||||||
| Av no of adjournments pre-trial in NOS | 10-25, sometimes more | |||||||||||||||||
| Main reason | no witness | |||||||||||||||||
| Representation by lawyer (all courts) | Always | N | 3 | |||||||||||||||
| Most | N | 1 | ||||||||||||||||
| Case Flow Trial | ||||||||||||||||||
| Practitioner Survey, as above | ||||||||||||||||||
| Av length of trial in the CJM? | Upto 6 months | N | 1 | |||||||||||||||
| Av length of trial in the DSC? | 9 to 12 months | N | 1 | |||||||||||||||
| Depends: sometimes more than 2 years, sometimes <6 months; | N | 1 | ||||||||||||||||
| 6 to 12 months | N | 1 | ||||||||||||||||
| 1 - 2 years | N | 1 | ||||||||||||||||
| Av length of trial in the NOS? | 9 to 12 months | |||||||||||||||||
| Case disposal | ||||||||||||||||||
| Practitioner Survey, Lawyers at court (N:3) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Conviction following Guilty plea | Very few | N | 2 | |||||||||||||||
| Cases compounded | less than 50% | N | 2 | |||||||||||||||
| Very few | N | 1 | ||||||||||||||||
| Cases diverted / settled | don't know | N | 2 | |||||||||||||||
| 50% | N | 1 | ||||||||||||||||