Family Law

(asked on 17th November 2014) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average length of time was for private family law cases to be resolved in court in each year from 2009 to 2014 in (a) the UK and (b) Wales.


Answered by
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Simon Hughes
This question was answered on 20th November 2014

The Ministry of Justice has responsibility for courts in England and Wales only and the available information is provided in the table below. We do not hold this information prior to 2011 as the case management system “FamilyMan” was not used by all courts until the end of 2010. 2014 data is available up to June, and the full year figures for 2014 will not be published until late March 2015.

Average timeliness - Mean

England and Wales

Wales only

2011

17.0

23.0

2012

15.3

20.3

2013

16.1

21.1

2014[1]

17.9

21.7

We publish data for the whole of England and Wales in our publication Court Statistics Quarterly, available online, at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/court-statistics-quarterly

The most recent Court Statistics Quarterly publication tables can be found at this link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/court-statistics-quarterly-april-to-june-2014

The data for July to September 2014 will be published in a new Family Court Statistics publication available on 18 December 2014.


[1] To end of June 2014

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