This tool presents annual statistics on civil county court claims as they progress through the County Court system in England and Wales, split by claim type.
The figures in the tool show the number of claims reaching each stage (claim, defence, allocation, and hearing) of all claims issued in the corresponding year (as filtered). This differs from the workload datasets, which show the number of defences, allocations, and hearings that take place in a given quarter, regardless of when the claim was issued.
This tool will be updated with annual figures on a quarterly basis. The current year's data will often be incomplete and will include data up to the current published quarter.
Allocations, hearings and judgments are labelled with suffixes of a, b, c etc. This is due to the set-up of the tool, where nodes cannot be named the same as other nodes. Therefore, these names simply refer to allocations, hearings and judgments respectively, and do not differ.
Since the County Court Money Claims Centre took over reporting of damages claims in Q2 2012, the proportion of personal injury claims against the total damages claims increased, due to improved recording.
Mortgage and landlord possession data has not been included as part of this tool.
Individual totals are rounded to the nearest 10. Furthermore, overall totals (e.g. total claims) may not add to the sum of their parts.
The size of the initial claims node does not change, however the totals in the node and subsequent nodes do, depending on filters applied. To check totals at each node, hover over the node of interest. These volumes are also available in the accompanying Sankey csv.
As this tool is based on a case progression model, at each revision, historic years will be revised as more cases progress through the county court system.
Due to data revisions, totals may not match exactly to historical CJSQ case progression figures, but these differences are marginal (<0.1%).
‘No Judgment’ means the claim has been privately settled, withdrawn by the claimant, or has had successful mediation.
Judgment outcomes can lead to enforcements and warrants, which are not currently included in the tool.
Judgment_h is also known as default judgment.