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Ministry of Justice · case type: All trials

Crown Court open cases: All trials

at 31 March 2026

67,419cases

Crown Court open cases for All trials was 67,419 cases at 31 March 2026, up 0.9% (628) on the period before.

  1. Ministry of Justice dataset
  2. Table_C1
  3. 2026 Q1
  4. column “All trials: open”
  5. 67419 per period
  6. published 25 June 2026

2016 Q1 to 2026 Q1

Crown Court open cases by case type: 2016 Q1 to 2026 Q1ConservativeConservativeConservativeConservativeConservativeLabourLabour020k40k60k2016201820202022202420262016 Q1: 40,613 cases · published 25 June 20262016 Q2: 37,428 cases · published 25 June 20262016 Q3: 35,966 cases · published 25 June 20262016 Q4: 35,364 cases · published 25 June 20262017 Q1: 34,108 cases · published 25 June 20262017 Q2: 33,468 cases · published 25 June 20262017 Q3: 32,614 cases · published 25 June 20262017 Q4: 31,499 cases · published 25 June 20262018 Q1: 29,334 cases · published 25 June 20262018 Q2: 27,999 cases · published 25 June 20262018 Q3: 27,012 cases · published 25 June 20262018 Q4: 25,654 cases · published 25 June 20262019 Q1: 25,690 cases · published 25 June 20262019 Q2: 26,671 cases · published 25 June 20262019 Q3: 27,625 cases · published 25 June 20262019 Q4: 29,771 cases · published 25 June 20262020 Q1: 32,145 cases · published 25 June 20262020 Q2: 34,532 cases · published 25 June 20262020 Q3: 41,838 cases · published 25 June 20262020 Q4: 46,541 cases · published 25 June 20262021 Q1: 49,146 cases · published 25 June 20262021 Q2: 49,998 cases · published 25 June 20262021 Q3: 49,052 cases · published 25 June 20262021 Q4: 47,782 cases · published 25 June 20262022 Q1: 47,107 cases · published 25 June 20262022 Q2: 48,038 cases · published 25 June 20262022 Q3: 50,872 cases · published 25 June 20262022 Q4: 50,877 cases · published 25 June 20262023 Q1: 50,402 cases · published 25 June 20262023 Q2: 51,772 cases · published 25 June 20262023 Q3: 52,799 cases · published 25 June 20262023 Q4: 53,369 cases · published 25 June 20262024 Q1: 54,571 cases · published 25 June 20262024 Q2: 56,355 cases · published 25 June 20262024 Q3: 58,255 cases · published 25 June 20262024 Q4: 59,958 cases · published 25 June 20262025 Q1: 62,309 cases · published 25 June 20262025 Q2: 64,388 cases · published 25 June 20262025 Q3: 65,909 cases · published 25 June 20262025 Q4: 66,791 cases · published 25 June 20262026 Q1: 67,419 cases · published 25 June 2026
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What this measures

Crown Court open cases at the end of the quarter split by case type as received into the Crown Court. "All trials" is the sum of triable-either-way and indictable-only trials.

Cases at magistrates' courts, or the time each case has been open; case types are as recorded at receipt and most "for trial" cases end in a guilty plea rather than a trial.

Source

Dataset
Criminal court statistics quarterly
Release
January to March 2026, published 25 June 2026 · sha256 b6823b9b68923d70…
All values
Crown Court open cases by case type