Table 17 Unrepresented
Litigants at First Interlocutory Hearing Stage [1998 - 2000]
Cases Started |
1998 |
1999 |
2000 |
|
Case Type |
No. of Cases
With Interlocutory Hearings |
No. of Cases
Involving Unrepresented Litigants |
% |
No. of Cases
With Interlocutory Hearings |
No. of Cases
Involving Unrepresented Litigants |
% |
No. of Cases
With Interlocutory Hearings |
No. of Cases
Involving Unrepresented Litigants |
% |
|
|
|
(a) |
(b) |
(b/a) |
(c) |
(d) |
(d/c) |
(e) |
(f) |
(f/e) |
|
High Court Actions |
10865 |
4758 |
44% |
9697 |
6165 |
64% |
4144 |
2238 |
54% |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Admiralty Actions |
59 |
12 |
20% |
42 |
19 |
45% |
30 |
18 |
60% |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Commercial Actions |
129 |
26 |
20% |
84 |
10 |
12% |
38 |
7 |
18% |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Constitutional and Administration
Law Proceedings |
56 |
36 |
64% |
107 |
51 |
48% |
1138 |
1058 |
93% |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Construction and Arbitration
Proceedings |
87 |
8 |
9% |
91 |
6 |
7% |
63 |
12 |
19% |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Personal Injury Actions |
1043 |
50 |
5% |
1244 |
120 |
10% |
677 |
62 |
9% |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Probate Actions |
3 |
1 |
33% |
3 |
1 |
33% |
3 |
0 |
0% |
|
Notes
(1) |
Cases with hearing date
on or before 31.12.2000 are covered. |
|
|
(2) |
Any one of the parties
in a case not legally represented will be counted as an unrepresented case. |
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