District Court Jury Trial workload statistics

Cases in		Cases out		Totals
	Jul 2015- Jun 2016		Jul 2015- Jun 2016		Jul 2015- Jun 2016		30-Jun-16
	New jury trials	Transfers in	Disposals	Transfers out	Cases in	Cases out	Active
Auckland DC	523	25	525	44	548	569	321
Blenheim DC	48	3	38	4	51	42	37
Christchurch DC	218	11	189	7	229	196	151
Dunedin DC	120	3	94	5	123	99	67
Gisborne DC	68	3	47	9	71	56	55
Greymouth DC	22	0	18	4	22	22	13
Hamilton DC	306	13	213	10	319	223	231
Invercargill DC	81	1	95	2	82	97	52
Kaikohe DC	67	2	41	4	69	45	58
Manukau DC	509	19	395	19	528	414	409
Napier DC	123	7	106	5	130	111	79
Nelson DC	126	7	121	5	133	126	108
New Plymouth DC	43	3	42	1	46	43	32
Palmerston North DC	86	5	45	9	91	54	64
Rotorua DC	134	8	131	11	142	142	78
Tauranga DC	144	3	92	10	147	102	94
Timaru DC	25	2	16	0	27	16	24
Wanganui DC	123	8	110	3	131	113	93
Wellington DC	191	12	260	12	203	272	151
Whangarei DC	85	7	98	6	92	104	67
Jury Courts total	3,042		2,676				2,184

Note:
This table is a subset of the total criminal courts table

The Criminal Procedure Act 2011 came into force on 1 July 2013. It changed the landscape for criminal cases.

Prior to July 2013, charges were laid summarily or indictably, which effectively determined the path they followed in Court. Historical reporting was created based on the pathways that cases were expected to follow - criminal summary, indictable pre-committal, and indictable post-committal (jury trial). Cases were counted as "new business" and "disposals" within each of these court processes. Transfers into a process were counted as new business, and transfers out as disposals. Reporting was based on parts of the criminal process, and never on the whole.

New reporting reflects a holistic approach, focused on total criminal cases, and on the subsets with special requirements: District Court jury trials, Youth Court cases and cases to be tried and/or sentenced in the High Court.

A case is now counted as new business when it first comes into the system, that is when charges are filed. It is counted as a disposal only when it has final charge outcomes for all its charges. Reporting of annual statistics from July 2013 uses new terminology in order to count transfers between courts and parts of the process: "cases in" alongside "new business" and "cases out" alongside "disposals".

Jury trial (subset of total)

"Cases in" is the sum of cases where an election of jury trial has been made (if required) and the case review process completed, cases committed for trial (under the pre-CPA process), cases where a retrial
has been directed, severed cases and other cases transferred into the court. At court location level, they also include transfers from other parts of the country.
It excludes cases reactivated in the court due to the execution or withdrawal of a warrant to arrest.

Disposals/"Cases out"

"Cases out" is the sum of cases where sentencing or other final outcomes are established on all charges, cases where all the charges are joined into another case, and cases transferred out of the court.
At court location level, they also include transfers to other parts of the country.
This includes cases where the defendant was convicted and sentenced or discharged, or the case dismissed, withdrawn, or stayed. It excludes cases put on hold due to the issuing of a warrant to arrest the defendant.

Total active

Active cases are those which are awaiting trial or are awaiting sentencing or other final outcome, and are not on hold due to the issuing of a warrant to arrest the defendant.
This includes cases where the defendant is yet to appear in court, or yet to make a plea, the case is in the review process, or the case is awaiting a pre-trial decision.