Northern Ireland Courts and Tribunals Service
25th November 2011

Children Order Bulletin (Provisional Statistics)

July – September 2011

Figures published today by the NI Courts and Tribunals Service in the quarterly Children Order Bulletin outline the County Court business received and dealt with from the quarter July to September 2011.

During the quarter;

There were 1,562 applications entered during the period
There were 1,331 applications dealt with during the period
There were 153 cases transferred during the period
The average waiting time in weeks from lodgement to disposal for public law cases was 36 weeks
The average waiting time in weeks between lodgement to disposal for private law cases was 21 weeks

Notes for editors

There were 1,562 applications entered during the period, of which:

189 = Public
1,373 = Private

		Number of applications entered	Number of disposals
Private Law	Family Proceedings Court	1283	1093
	Family Care Centre	31	76
	High Court	59	45
	Total	1373	1214
Public Law	Family Proceedings Court	173	85
	Family Care Centre	9	15
	High Court	7	17
	Total	189	117

There were 153 cases transferred during the period with 159 reasons for transfer. (Fig 2).

Transferred from		Complexity	Consolidation	Convenience	Gravity	Jurisdiction	Returned to Lower Court	Separate Representation for Child	Urgency	Point of Law	Total
Family Proceedings Court	Antrim	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	Armagh	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	Ballymena	24	0	0	0	3	0	2	0	0	29
	Belfast	31	9	0	0	6	0	0	0	0	46
	Coleraine	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	1
	Craigavon	8	2	0	0	4	0	0	0	2	16
	Downpatrick	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	Dungannon	3	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4
	Larne	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	1
	Lisburn	11	1	1	0	3	0	0	0	0	16
	Londonderry	10	2	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	14
	Newry	2	3	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	6
	Newtownards	4	3	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	8
	Omagh	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
	Venue total	94	21	1	2	20	0	2	0	2	142
Family Care Centre	Belfast	2	0	1	0	1	2	0	0	0	6
	Craigavon	2	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	4
	Dungannon	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	Londonderry	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	3
	Venue total	5	2	2	0	1	2	0	1	0	13
High Court	Office of Care and Protection	0	0	0	0	2	1	0	1	0	4
	Matrimonial Office	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	Venue total	0	0	0	0	2	1	0	1	0	4
Northern Ireland Total		99	23	3	2	23	3	2	2	2	159

There were 1,689 children involved in Children Order Proceedings during the period, of which 43% were under the age of five

Important Notes:

Figures are computed from a live database and may change due to late returns and further validations.

Waiting times do not exclude recess.

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Northern Ireland Court Service
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