Jury Trials (subset of total criminal) for the 12 months ending 31 December 2016

Cases in		Cases out		Totals
	Jan 2016 - Dec 2016		Jan 2016 - Dec 2016		Jan 2016 - Dec 2016		as at 31 December 2016
Court location	New jury trials	Transfer in	Disposals	Transfer out	Cases in	Cases out	Total active
Auckland DC	564	25	440	38	589	478	356
Blenheim DC	39	4	36	6	43	42	29
Christchurch DC	256	11	184	11	267	195	163
Dunedin DC	130	5	82	5	135	87	82
Gisborne DC	73	3	50	5	76	55	64
Greymouth DC	21	3	10	4	24	14	18
Hamilton DC	293	14	213	8	307	221	212
Invercargill DC	63	2	76	5	65	81	38
Kaikohe DC	66	6	36	9	72	45	61
Manukau DC	513	20	395	19	533	414	382
Napier DC	100	9	96	5	109	101	76
Nelson DC	104	9	126	9	113	135	85
New Plymouth DC	73	2	35	1	75	36	51
Palmerston North DC	108	4	45	12	112	57	92
Rotorua DC	158	9	105	10	167	115	108
Tauranga DC	139	6	95	12	145	107	93
Timaru DC	31	1	21	0	32	21	26
Wanganui DC	129	5	92	2	134	94	108
Wellington DC	232	11	199	10	243	209	156
Whangarei DC	89	9	71	8	98	79	79

Jury Courts total	3,181		2,407				2,279

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, focussed 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 case is awaiting a pre-trial decision.