Crown Court: Trials
(asked on 15th December 2020) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many trials have been completed in the Crown Court of England and Wales in each month of 2020.
Answered by
Baroness Scott of Bybrook
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities)
Crown Court trials which proceed on the planned date are recorded as effective. We do not record trials in the Crown Court under a category of completed.
Data showing effective trials in each month of 2020 in England and Wales, can been found in the table below.
Published data is up to September 2020 (the end of Q3) and we are unable to provide data past that point.
Year | Month | Number of effective trials1 |
|
2020 | January | 906 |
|
| February | 824 |
|
| March | 520 |
|
| April | - |
|
| May | 8 |
|
| June | 61 |
|
| July | 200 |
|
| August | 275 |
|
| September | 471 |
|
Notes:
1). The total number of trials listed during the reporting period indicated, is considered 'effective' once a jury is sworn in regardless of whether they go on to reach a verdict. Not all cases will go to trial, for the purposes of trial effectiveness we consider a ‘trial’ at the point of initial listing. A trial which goes ahead on the planned date and occurs is then considered as ‘effective’, a trial that is listed but does not go ahead is considered either cracked, ineffective or vacated.