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Coronavirus (COVID-19) - Justice Analytical Services data report: January 2022
This pack provides information on the impact of COVID-19 on the Justice system during January 2022.
Criminal Registered & Scheduled Trials
Since the initial lockdown in March 2020, there have been 147,985 criminal registrations in the courts. 636 of these registrations have been COVID-19 related (0.4%).
In January 2022, all types of court registration remained lower than 2019-20 averages.
| Cases Registered | 19-20 monthly average | January 2022 | Change from 19-20 monthly average |
Outstanding trials March 2020 | Outstanding trials January 2022 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Indictments | |||||
| High Court | 85 | 68 | -17 (-20%) | 390 | 534 |
| Sheriff Court | 454 | 425 | -29 (-6%) | 497 | 2,212 |
| Complaints | |||||
| Sheriff Court | 5,458 | 4,614 | -844 (-15%) | 13,971 | 32,759 |
| JP Court | 2,799 | 1,787 | -1,012 (-36%) | 3,497 | 8,101 |
At the end of January 2022 there were 43,606 trials outstanding. This compares to 18,355 at the end of 2019-20. In addition, SCTS have forecast that there are another 1,564 cases in the system, which are likely to come to trial but have not yet had a trial date set (see SCTS published monthly criminal statistics for more detail).
Contact
Email: Justice_Analysts@gov.scot
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