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State Courts Court Dispute Resolution Caseload Figures, 2015 to 2022

Data from Jan 2015 to Jan 2022

Last updated: 06 Jun 2024, 15:18 SGT

STATECOURTS (Judiciary, State Courts)

Dataset contains the annual fresh cases handled by the State Courts' Court Dispute Resolution cluster

Sample OpenAPI query

This code can be used to test a sample API query. It retrieves the data catalogue of this dataset. For a complete guide on query parameters and syntax, please refer to the API documentation. Try it out on your browser to see the response schema.

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 Caseload Figures, 2015 to 2022 (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved December 26, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_111ef64ac94ff53a44f5e019b8ed9878/view

About this dataset

Contact

looi_siew_yuen@judiciary.gov.sg shen_qinghui@judiciary.gov.sg

Created on

25 Sep 2019

Licence

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

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STATECOURTS (Judiciary, State Courts)

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State Courts Court Dispute Resolution Caseload Figures, 2015 to 2022

Data from Jan 2015 to Jan 2022

Last updated: 06 Jun 2024, 15:18 SGT

STATECOURTS (Judiciary, State Courts)

Dataset contains the annual fresh cases handled by the State Courts' Court Dispute Resolution cluster

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StateCourtsCourtDisputeResolutionCaseloadFigures2015to2022.csv (16 rows, 1.9 KB)

Year Year (YYYY)	Category Text	Subcategory Text	Count Numeric
(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0% Civil50.0% Community50.0%	(Null)0.0% Writ of Summons, Originating Summons50.0% Originating Summons - Application for Protection Order / Non-Publication Order, Community Disputes Resolution Tribunals Claim, Magistrate�s Complaint31.3% Originating Summons - Application for Protection Order / Non-Publication Order/False Statement Order, Community Disputes Resolution Tribunals Claim, Magistrate�s Complaint18.8%	(Null)0.0%
2015	Civil	Writ of Summons, Originating Summons	6044
2015	Community	Originating Summons - Application for Protection Order / Non-Publication Order, Community Disputes Resolution Tribunals Claim, Magistrate�s Complaint	395
2016	Civil	Writ of Summons, Originating Summons	5878
2016	Community	Originating Summons - Application for Protection Order / Non-Publication Order, Community Disputes Resolution Tribunals Claim, Magistrate�s Complaint	439
2017	Civil	Writ of Summons, Originating Summons	5952
2017	Community	Originating Summons - Application for Protection Order / Non-Publication Order, Community Disputes Resolution Tribunals Claim, Magistrate�s Complaint	272
2018	Civil	Writ of Summons, Originating Summons	6601
2018	Community	Originating Summons - Application for Protection Order / Non-Publication Order, Community Disputes Resolution Tribunals Claim, Magistrate�s Complaint	296
2019	Civil	Writ of Summons, Originating Summons	6814
2019	Community	Originating Summons - Application for Protection Order / Non-Publication Order, Community Disputes Resolution Tribunals Claim, Magistrate�s Complaint	254

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Year	year	Year (YYYY)	-	-
Category	category	Text	-	-
Subcategory	subcategory	Text	-	-
Count	count	Numeric	-	-

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