| Prosecution case data (estimated 2013) | |||||||||||||||
| Cases carried forward from previous year | Estimated New Cases | Estimated Cases ending in conviction | Estimated Cases dismissed | Estimated Cases diverted | Estimated 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 | 1830 | No data | No data | 46 | No data | No data | 194 | No data | No data | 1336 | No data | No data | 2303 |
| Data note | Date note | ||||||||||||||
| See Trends data. Data for Jan-Jun 2013 aggregated and multiplied by 2 to present an estimate of case figures for 2013. | Cases pending are not additive and an average is presented here. | ||||||||||||||
| Age of pending prosecution cases (DS Court) | |||||||||||||||
| 1995 | 2006 | 79 | |||||||||||||
| 1996 | 1 | 2007 | 67 | ||||||||||||
| 1997 | 2008 | 227 | |||||||||||||
| 1998 | 2009 | 140 | |||||||||||||
| 1999 | 2010 | 148 | |||||||||||||
| 2000 | 1 | 2011 | 272 | ||||||||||||
| 2001 | 2012 | 635 | |||||||||||||
| 2002 | 2013 | 789 | |||||||||||||
| 2003 | |||||||||||||||
| 2004 | 5 | ||||||||||||||
| 2005 | |||||||||||||||
| CJM | No data | ||||||||||||||
| Case management | |||||||||||||||
| Practitioner Survey: lawyers at court (N:1) | |||||||||||||||
| When does a prosecutor first review a case file? | After charge | ||||||||||||||
| Case referral to police | No data | ||||||||||||||
| Mechanism for pre-trial review where prosecution and defence can discuss plea, evidence and witnesses? | No | ||||||||||||||
| How many cases do you have today? | 18 | ||||||||||||||
| % women victims | no data | ||||||||||||||
| % women accused | no data | ||||||||||||||
| 5 most common offences tried in your district? | no data | ||||||||||||||
| Case Flow Pre-trial | |||||||||||||||
| Practitioner Survey, Prosecution 'Cross check' (N:1) | |||||||||||||||
| Av time: FIR to trial in the CJM? | 9-12 months | ||||||||||||||
| Av time: FIR to trial in the DSC? | No response | ||||||||||||||
| Av time: FIR to trial in the NOS? | No response | ||||||||||||||
| Av no of adjournments pre-trial in CJM | 10 to 25 | ||||||||||||||
| Av no of adjournments pre-trial in DSC | 10 to 25 | ||||||||||||||
| Av no of adjournments pre-trial in NOS | 10 to 25 | ||||||||||||||
| Main reason | No witness | ||||||||||||||
| Legal representation (CJM) | Sometimes (no response for other courts) | ||||||||||||||
| Case Flow - Trial | |||||||||||||||
| Practitioner Survey as above | |||||||||||||||
| Av length of trial in the CJM? | 9-12 months | ||||||||||||||
| Av length of trial in the DSC? | 9-12 months | ||||||||||||||
| Av length of trial in the NOS? | 9-12 months | ||||||||||||||
| Case Flow Disposal | |||||||||||||||
| Practitioner Survey, Lawyers at court (N:2) | |||||||||||||||
| Conviction following Guilty plea | Very few | N | 2 | ||||||||||||
| Cases compounded | Less than 50% | N | 2 | ||||||||||||
| Cases diverted / settled | approx 25% | N | 2 | ||||||||||||
| Legal representation | All | N | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Most | N | 2 | |||||||||||||