District Court Defended Civil workload statistics

For the 12 months ending 30 June 2016

Defended Civil cases

     New Business

    Disposals  Total active as at 30 June 2016
Alexandra DC 1 1 1
Ashburton DC 3 4 2
Auckland DC 123 165 112
Blenheim DC 8 5 6
Chatham Islands DC 0 0 0
Christchurch DC 85 86 61
Dannevirke DC 0 1 0
Dargaville DC 1 3 1
Dunedin DC 15 19 11
Gisborne DC 5 3 4
Gore DC 3 3 0
Greymouth DC 4 4 3
Hamilton DC 41 48 25
Hastings DC 3 6 6
Hawera DC 3 4 2
Huntly DC 1 1 1
Hutt Valley DC 23 27 11
Invercargill DC 13 19 13
Kaikohe DC 1 3 1
Kaikoura DC 0 0 0
Kaitaia DC 2 0 2
Levin DC 8 9 3
Manukau DC 45 40 30
Marton DC 1 1 2
Masterton DC 4 5 4
Morrinsville DC 2 3 2
Napier DC 8 15 7
Nelson DC 16 14 12
New Plymouth DC 15 21 5
North Shore DC 41 63 41
Oamaru DC 3 2 2
Opotiki DC 1 0 1
Palmerston North DC 8 12 5
Papakura DC 3 7 3
Porirua DC 7 10 2
Pukekohe DC 13 9 6
Queenstown DC 10 6 12
Rotorua DC 8 8 3
Ruatoria DC 1 0 1
Taihape DC 1 2 1
Taumarunui DC 0 0 0
Taupo DC 8 7 3
Tauranga DC 30 25 17
Te Awamutu DC 0 2 0
Te Kuiti DC 1 2 1
Thames DC 4 4 2
Timaru DC 9 9 5
Tokoroa DC 0 0 2
Waihi DC 2 4 1
Waipukurau DC 1 1 1
Wairoa DC 0 0 0
Waitakere DC 26 24 25
Wanganui DC 5 6 2
Wellington DC 40 42 35
Westport DC 1 2 1
Whakatane DC 6 4 4
Whangarei DC 19 43 20
       
National Total 666 788 523

 

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.