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State Courts Caseload Figures, 2011 to 2022

Data from Jan 2011 to Jan 2022

Last updated: 06 Jun 2024, 15:25 SGT

STATECOURTS (Judiciary, State Courts)

Notes: (1) Data is accurate as at 31 December 2022. (2) Family and Juvenile cases are excluded from the State Courts caseload figures with effect from 2014. (3) Probate cases are excluded from the State Courts caseload figures with effect from 2015. (4) Applications for Protection Order / Non-Publication Order commenced on 15 Nov 2014. (5) Community Disputes Resolution Tribunals Claims commenced filing on 1 Oct 2015. (6) Employment Claims Tribunals Claims commenced filing on 1 Apr 2017.
(7) Small Claims Tribunals came under Community Justice and Tribunals Division in 2015. The Tribunals were part of the Civil Justice Division before 2015. (8) All Magistrate’s Complaints were counted under the Criminal Justice Division in 2011 to 2017. With effect from 2 January 2018, only Magistrate’s Complaints that are non-relational (e.g. copyright nature) are counted under the Criminal Justice Division while all other Magistrate’s Complaints are counted under the Community Justice and Tribunals Division (9) Criminal charges include DAC, MAC, PSS, PS & other charges. (10) Summons exclude O.25/37. (11) Beyond Parental Control and Child Protection Orders refers to the number of juveniles.

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_afea2ada431ec25fbddc2e1981d2c8c2"
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. (2016). State Courts Caseload Figures, 2011 to 2022 (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved December 17, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_afea2ada431ec25fbddc2e1981d2c8c2/view

About this dataset

Contact

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

Created on

28 Jun 2016

Licence

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

Agency

STATECOURTS (Judiciary, State Courts)

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State Courts Caseload Figures, 2011 to 2022

Data from Jan 2011 to Jan 2022

Last updated: 06 Jun 2024, 15:25 SGT

STATECOURTS (Judiciary, State Courts)

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State Courts Caseload Figures, 2011 to 2022

Data from Jan 2011 to Jan 2022

Last updated: 06 Jun 2024, 15:25 SGT

STATECOURTS (Judiciary, State Courts)

Sample OpenAPI query

import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_afea2ada431ec25fbddc2e1981d2c8c2"
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.

About this dataset

Contact

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

Created on

28 Jun 2016

Licence

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

Agency

STATECOURTS (Judiciary, State Courts)

Data explorer

StateCourtsCaseloadFigures2011to2022.csv (245 rows, 21.3 KB)

Year Year (YYYY)	Justice division Text	Category Text	Subcategory Text	Count Numeric
(Null)0.0% 201113.5% 201213.5% 201313.5% 20186.9%	(Null)0.0% CIVIL JUSTICE DIVISION37.6% CRIMINAL JUSTICE DIVISION24.5% FAMILY and JUVENILE JUSTICE DIVISION23.3% COMMUNITY JUSTICE and TRIBUNALS DIVISION14.7%	(Null)0.0% Other24.5% Interlocutory Application14.7% Criminal and Departmental/Statutory Board14.7% Originating Process11.4%	(Null)0.0% Magistrate�s Complaint6.9% Summons4.9% Taxation4.9% Criminal Charge4.9%	(Null)0.0%
2011	CIVIL JUSTICE DIVISION	Other	Assessment of Damages	2594
2011	CIVIL JUSTICE DIVISION	Originating Process	Originating Summons	485
2011	CIVIL JUSTICE DIVISION	Originating Process	Probate	3864
2011	CIVIL JUSTICE DIVISION	Small Claims Tribunals	Small Claims Tribunals Claim	13370
2011	CIVIL JUSTICE DIVISION	Interlocutory Application	Summary Judgment (O.14)	489
2011	CIVIL JUSTICE DIVISION	Interlocutory Application	Summons	10573
2011	CIVIL JUSTICE DIVISION	Interlocutory Application	Summons for Directions (O.25/37)	5880
2011	CIVIL JUSTICE DIVISION	Other	Taxation	164
2011	CIVIL JUSTICE DIVISION	Originating Process	Writs of Summons (DC & MC)	35789
2011	CRIMINAL JUSTICE DIVISION	Other	Coroner�s Court Case	3978

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

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