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Caseload statistics 2018

View the 2018 caseload figures for the number of cases handled by the Singapore courts.

View the caseloads for each court in 2018:

Supreme Court.
State Courts.
Family Justice Courts.

Supreme Court

The Supreme Court received a total of 14,780 new civil and criminal matters in 2018. A total of 14,359 matters were disposed of in the same corresponding period. The clearance rate for all civil and criminal matters for 2018 was 97%. The following table shows the breakdown of the filing and disposal and clearance rates of the civil and criminal proceedings for 2018.

Proceedings	No. of cases filed	No. of cases disposed of	Clearance rate
Civil originating processes	7,334	7,124	97%
Civil interlocutory applications	6,089	5,895	97%
Appeals before the High Court	416	404	97%
Appeals before the Court of Appeal	235	239	102%
Applications before the Court of Appeal	182	170	93%

Note: Figures are based on the information compiled as of 21 January 2019.

Proceedings	No. of cases filed	No. of cases disposed of	Clearance rate
Criminal cases	88	70	80%
Criminal motions	86	98	114%
Magistrate's appeals	288	291	101%
Criminal revisions	11	11	100%
Criminal appeals	51	57	112%

Note: Figures are based on the information compiled as of 21 January 2019.

State Courts

There were 359,064 cases filed in State Courts in 2018 and 371,088 cases were disposed of. The clearance rate for 2018 was 103%.

Types of cases	No. of cases filed	No. of cases disposed of	Clearance rate ⁽¹⁾
Criminal cases	303,487	317,203	105%
Civil cases	41,350	40,214	97%
Community Justice and Tribunals cases	14,047	13,671	97%
Total	359,064	371,088	103%

Note: The figures are accurate at the time of publishing.

Types of cases	No. of cases filed
Criminal charge ⁽²⁾	57,249
Departmental or statutory board charge and Summons	181,839
Traffic charge and Summons	60,230
Coroner’s Court case	4,106
Magistrate’s complaint ⁽³⁾	63
Total	303,487

Note: The figures are accurate at the time of publishing.

Originating process

Types of cases	No. of cases filed
Writ of Summons	25,971
Originating Summons	671
Total	26,642

Interlocutory application

Types of cases	No. of cases filed
Summons ⁽⁴⁾	9,007
Summons for Directions (Order 25 or 37)	3,875
Summary Judgment (Order 14)	173
Total	13,055

Others

Types of cases	No. of cases filed
Taxation	106
Assessment of damages	1,727
Total	1,833

Note: The figures are accurate at the time of publishing.

Types of cases	No. of cases filed
Community Dispute Resolution Tribunals (CDRT) claims	108
Employment Claims Tribunals (ECT) claims	915
Magistrate's Complaint ⁽³⁾	1,785
Protection from Harassment Act, Originating Summons – Application for Protection Order or Non-Publication Order	150
Small Claims Tribunals (SCT) claims	11,089
Total	14,047

Note: The figures are accurate at the time of publishing.

Types of cases ⁽⁵⁾	No. of cases filed
(Civil) Writs of Summons, Originating Summons	6,601
(Community) Originating Summons – Applications for Protection Order or Non-Publication Order, Community Disputes Resolution Tribunals (CDRT) claims, Magistrate’s Complaint	296
Total	6,897

Note: The figures are accurate at the time of publishing.

Family Justice Courts

Total number of cases handled by the Family Justice Courts is 27,476 for 2018.

Types of applications	No. of cases filed
Fresh applications	1,207
Enforcement of Maintenance Orders	2,419
Variation, rescission or suspension of Maintenance Orders	758
Enforcement of Maintenance of Parents Tribunal Orders	18
Enforcement of Syariah Court Orders	298
Total	4,700

Types of applications	No. of cases filed
Fresh applications for Personal Protection Orders (PPO)	2,480
Variation or rescission of PPO	199
Breach of PPO	22
Total	2,701

Total

5,977

Types of applications	No. of cases filed
Adoption	429
Probate	6,590
Originating Summons	889
Breach of Syariah Court Orders	155
Summons (Family) ⁽⁶⁾	4,971
Total	13,034

Types of applications	No. of cases filed
Youth arrest charges	589
Beyond Parental Control ⁽⁷⁾	114
Child Protection Orders ⁽⁷⁾	293
Youth Summons case or Youth Court Notice ⁽⁸⁾	68
Total	1,064

Footnotes

⁽¹⁾ Clearance rate is the number of cases disposed of expressed as a percentage of the number of cases filed in the same year. The clearance rate can exceed 100% as those disposed of are not necessarily a subset of the filings in that year.

⁽²⁾ Includes District arrest charges, Magistrates’ arrest charges and other types of charges.

⁽³⁾ Non-relational Magistrate’s Complaints are counted as criminal cases. Relational Magistrate’s Complaints are counted under Community Justice and Tribunals cases.

⁽⁴⁾ Excludes Summons for Directions (Order 25/37).

⁽⁵⁾ Refers to fresh cases handled by the Court Dispute Resolution cluster.

⁽⁶⁾ Includes Divorce, Originating Summons (Family), Probate and Adoption Summonses.

⁽⁷⁾ Refers to number of youths.

⁽⁸⁾ Formerly refers to Police Summonses or Summonses and Tickets, and other charges.

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