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Appendix XLIII

Cases in the Supreme Court, District Court and

Tenancy Tribunal 1963–7

Supreme Court

Civil appeals

11

Criminal appeal

-

Original jurisdiction

Miscellaneous proceedings

Adoptions

Divorce

Criminal sessions

Admiralty jurisdiction

Probate grants

Lunacy

Bankruptcy

Company Winding-up

District Court

Total ...

Criminal jurisdiction

Civil jurisdiction ...

:

:

Workmen's compensation

Distress for rent

:

:

:

:

:

:

:

1963

1964

1965

1966

1967

46

40

78

59

52

488

575

585

612

711

1,351

1,605

2,917

2,493

1,983

445

514

522

487

316

139

125

89

160

134

58

71

82

136

164

61

53

65

65

64

20

37

14

16

62

930

890

939

989

1,080

1

3

2

2

17

15

44

26

27

12

15

19

28

39

3,568

3,943

5,356

5,073

4,632

245

205

216

215

8,239

7,726

10,962

12,890

383

16,717

142

226

214

250

223

789

679

1,119

1,362

1,730

9,424

8,836

12,511

14,717

19,053

Total ...

Tenancy Tribunal

Ordinary cases

846

746

796

749

580

Exemption cases

1,036

495

83

24

18

Demolished building cases

260

272

286

173

Total ...

1,882

1,501

1,151

1,059

771

Work in the Magistracies for the Years 1963–7

1963

1964

1965

1966

1967

Total number of summary matters

(charges, summonses and appli- cations, etc)

237,325

Total number of adult defendants...

239,692

292,347 361,811 281,189 338,666

399,907 316,177 412,960

342,101

Total number of adult defendants

convicted

226,575

270,002

Total number of juvenile defendants

5,075

9,829

322,516 384,620 16,281 12,325

310,668

9,368

Total number of juvenile defendants

convicted

4,988

9,760

16,127

12,072

9,111

Total number of charge sheets

issued

*

86,012

118,183

Total number of summonses issued Total number of miscellaneous

proceedings issued

142,918

162,662

145,277 155,311 113,451 184,221 236,123 199,136

5,434

5,838

5,204

4,800

3,590

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