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State Courts Court Dispute Resolution Annual Caseload Figures

Data from Jan 2015 to Dec 2024

Last updated: 21 Jan 2026, 14:32 SGT

STATECOURTS (Judiciary, State Courts)

This dataset provides the annual fresh cases handled by the State Courts' Court Dispute Resolution (CDR) cluster by case types, from 2015 to 2024.

Notes: (1) Data is accurate as at 31 December 2024. (2) This dataset contains annual fresh cases handled by the State Courts' Court Dispute Resolution (CDR) cluster. The cluster provides court dispute resolution services for a wide range of matters in the State Courts, including civil cases and relational disputes such as harassment and neighbour disputes. (3) This dataset represents a subset of cases from the main State Courts caseload. (4) Writ of Summons is called Originating Claim under the Rules of Court 2021, with effect from 1 April 2022. Writ of Summons under Rules of Court 2014 can continue to be filed after 1 April 2022. (5) Originating Summons is called Originating Application under the Rules of Court 2021, with effect from 1 April 2022. Originating Summons under Rules of Court 2014 can continue to be filed after 1 April 2022. (6) Applications for Protection Order / Non-Publication Order under the Protection from Harassment Act commenced on 15 November 2014. Applications for False Statement Orders came into effect on 1 April 2020, and the Non-Publication Order (NPO) provisions were repealed. The subcategory description was revised to 'Protection from Harassment Court Case' with the operationalisation of the Protection from Harassment Court on 1 June 2021. (7) Community Disputes Resolution Tribunals Claims commenced filing on 1 October 2015.

Data explorer

StateCourtsCourtDisputeResolutionAnnualCaseloadFigures.csv (20 rows, 2.5 KB)

Year
Year (YYYY)
Main Case Type
Text
Subcategory
Text
Count
Numeric
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
Civil50.0%
Community Courts and Tribunals50.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
2015CivilWrit of Summons, Originating Summons6044
2016CivilWrit of Summons, Originating Summons5878
2017CivilWrit of Summons, Originating Summons5952
2018CivilWrit of Summons, Originating Summons6601
2019CivilWrit of Summons, Originating Summons6814
2020CivilWrit of Summons, Originating Summons5085
2021CivilWrit of Summons, Originating Summons4476
2022CivilWrit of Summons/Originating Claim, Originating Summons/Originating Application3508
2023CivilWrit of Summons/Originating Claim, Originating Summons/Originating Application3070
2024CivilWrit of Summons/Originating Claim, Originating Summons/Originating Application3500
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Sample OpenAPI query

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_111ef64ac94ff53a44f5e019b8ed9878"
url = "https://data.gov.sg/api/action/datastore_search?resource_id="  + dataset_id 
        
response = requests.get(url)
print(response.json())

Citation

This dataset can be reused and cited in research publications.

Judiciary, State Courts. (2019). State Courts Court Dispute Resolution Annual Caseload Figures (2026) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved June 8, 2026 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_111ef64ac94ff53a44f5e019b8ed9878/view

About this dataset

Contact

looi_siew_yuen@judiciary.gov.sgshen_qinghui@judiciary.gov.sg

Created on

25 Sep 2019

Licence

Free forever for personal or commercial use, under the Open Data Licence.

Agency

STATECOURTS (Judiciary, State Courts)