Saturday, August 21, 2010

Statistically is there more civil or criminal law in court cases in the UK?

which would the average person in the UK have more chance of appearing in court through, would it be civil law or criminal law.Statistically is there more civil or criminal law in court cases in the UK?
In terms of numbers of hearings, there are very signficantly more criminal than civil hearings.





The answer above explains why.Statistically is there more civil or criminal law in court cases in the UK?
Appearing in court, it's definitely crime, there are far more magistrates courts getting through far more business than the County Court.





A good indicator is that if you live in a small to medium town, you will have a magistrates' court, and the County Court (civil) will have one room in it perhaps two days per week. The rest of the time it's criminal work.





Actual number of proceedings, it might be different, because a large part of the county court's work - issuing CCJs against people, possession hearings, bankruptcies - usually involve no-one turning up.

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