District Court Defended Civil Workload Statistics

 

Defended civil cases New business Disposals Total active as at 30 June 2015
Alexandra DC 3 2 2
Ashburton DC 2 2 2
Auckland DC 178 164 148
Blenheim DC 6 7 3
Chatham Islands DC 0 0 0
Christchurch DC 89 79 58
Dannevirke DC 2 1 1
Dargaville DC 3 3 1
Dunedin DC 19 17 14
Gisborne DC 0 2 2
Gore DC 3 3 0
Greymouth DC 5 4 2
Hamilton DC 40 30 28
Hastings DC 10 11 8
Hawera DC 7 5 3
Huntly DC 1 3 1
Hutt Valley DC 24 20 16
Invercargill DC 25 14 17
Kaikohe DC 7 10 3
Kaikoura DC 0 0 0
Kaitaia DC 3 4 0
Levin DC 2 4 3
Manukau DC 44 43 28
Marton DC 1 2 2
Masterton DC 7 3 5
Morrinsville DC 3 2 3
Napier DC 14 9 12
Nelson DC 19 17 9
New Plymouth DC 11 7 11
North Shore DC 73 60 61
Oamaru DC 1 0 1
Opotiki DC 0 0 0
Palmerston North DC 13 10 9
Papakura DC 9 7 6
Porirua DC 7 6 5
Pukekohe DC 8 10 2
Queenstown DC 9 8 7
Rotorua DC 6 8 3
Ruatoria DC 0 0 0
Taihape DC 3 1 2
Taumarunui DC 4 4 0
Taupo DC 2 2 2
Tauranga DC 26 21 14
Te Awamutu DC 1 1 1
Te Kuiti DC 0 0 2
Thames DC 5 4 2
Timaru DC 7 15 4
Tokoroa DC 2 1 0
Waihi DC 3 1 3
Waipukurau DC 2 1 1
Wairoa DC 0 0 0
Waitakere DC 30 28 23
Whanganui DC 8 11 3
Wellington DC 39 29 34
Westport DC 2 0 2
Whakatane DC 3 5 2
Whangarei DC 48 46 10
National Total 818 747 581

Definitions

Defended new business

Civil new business includes cases where a defence has been filed, cases where a rehearing has been directed and cases transferred into the court.

Defended disposals 

Disposals include cases with final judgment or final outcome determined by the Court.

Defended total active

Active civil cases are those which are awaiting substantive hearing or are awaiting final judgment.

Notes:

New business for an individual court is the sum of newly defended cases during the reporting period and defended cases which have been transferred into that court.
At a Total District Courts level new business only includes newly defended cases. As transfers occur between courts, including them in an overall total would mean these cases are counted more than once. For this reason the Total District Courts volume does not equal the sum of the individual District Courts.