{"metric":"crown_court_waiting_weeks","title":"Crown Court median waiting time","topic":"justice","unit":"weeks","measure_type":"estimate","geography":"K04000001","comparison_method":"same_quarter_previous_year","latest":{"period_start":"2026-01-01","period_end":"2026-03-31","period_label":"2026 Q1","value":10.5714285714286,"status":"final","vintage":"2026-06-25"},"comparison":{"period_label":"2025 Q1","value":10.1428571428571,"vintage":"2026-06-25"},"source":{"publisher":"Ministry of Justice","publication":"Criminal court statistics quarterly: Crown Court waiting times","landing_url":"https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/criminal-court-statistics","sheet":"Table_C6","table":"Table C6","row":"2026 Q1","column":"All cases closed: Median","raw_value":"10.5714285714286","file_url":"https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/criminal-court-statistics","file_sha256":"b6823b9b68923d7039050194eb303b8fc1a1071f5f6a555585d15cf21146dd40","release_date":"2026-06-25","release_label":"January to March 2026"},"definition":"The median weeks a defendant waited from their case reaching the Crown Court to the start of its substantive hearing, across all cases closed in the quarter — trials, sentence cases and appeals.\n","does_not_measure":"Time at the magistrates' court or before charge, cases still waiting (only closed cases are measured, so the figure lags the backlog), or defendants whose waiting time could not be calculated.\n","links":{"page":"/justice/crown-court-waiting-weeks","series":"/api/metrics/crown_court_waiting_weeks/series","vintages":"/api/metrics/crown_court_waiting_weeks/vintages"}}