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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
               
Total Jury Courts 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.