CJR Interim Report, Appendix C, Table 4

Table 4 High Court Caseload, Judicial Establishment and Legal Profession [1991 - 2000]

		1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000

No. of Judges

Court of Appeal		10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10

Court of First Instance		20	22	22	22	25	25	25	25	25	25

Master		8	8	8	7	6	6	6	7	10	10

High Court Caseload

Court of Appeal

	Civil Appeals	206	211	218	225	258	254	260	336	338	1078

	Miscellaneous Appeals	-	-	-	11	16	4	5	14	37	47

Total to Court of Appeal		206	211	218	236	274	258	265	350	375	1125
		(100)	(102)	(106)	(115)	(133)	(125)	(129)	(170)	(182)	(546)

Court of First Instance

	High Court Actions	10020	9305	11863	13208	13598	14872	14373	22482	19733	10704

	Miscellaneous Proceedings	3997	4206	4438	3659	3968	4534	4543	7087	7998	6689

	Admiralty Actions	421	335	365	480	463	427	438	432	338	312

	Bankruptcy Proceedings	859	887	915	1080	1448	1698	1865	1637	3879	5487

	Commercial Actions	205	152	213	250	257	375	255	308	235	110

	Companies Winding-up Proceedings	422	423	539	582	631	742	662	942	1161	1242

	Constitutional & Administrative Law Proceedings	-	-	-	-	-	-	115	112	162	2767

	Construction and Arbitration Proceedings	20	13	24	48	57	87	134	137	128	140

	Personal Injury Actions	-	-	-	182	1271	1387	1317	1340	1460	1535

	Probate Actions	7	6	11	6	8	19	14	7	11	22

	Others	76	76	57	102	59	41	50	72	107	146

Total to Court of First Instance		16027	15403	18425	19597	21760	24182	23766	34556	35212	29154
		(100)	(96)	(115)	(122)	(136)	(151)	(149)	(216)	(220)	(182)

No. of Practitioners

	Barristers	454	485	570	559	613	624	660	683	728	752
	Barristers	(100)	(107)	(126)	(123)	(135)	(137)	(145)	(150)	(160)	(166)

	Solicitors	2479	2720	2981	3307	3597	3896	4310	4619	4721	4890
	Solicitors	(100)	(110)	(120)	(133)	(145)	(157)	(174)	(186)	(190)	(197)

Note

(1)	Others cases refer to adoptions, bill of sale registrations, matrimonial causes, stop notices, application for Interim Order and application to set aside a Statutory Demand.