The latest civil justice statistics have recently been published by Scotland’s Chief Statistician, and include details of the number personal injury cases being heard in Scotland’s civil courts.
There were a number of general trends identified in the figures, including:
- There were 77,453 civil cases initiated across both the Court of Session and the sheriff courts in 2012-13 (not including summary applications), a drop of 9% since 2011-12 and 41% since 2008-09.
- Personal injury cases accounted for nearly four out of five initiated cases in the Court of Session General Department (79%).
Looking at the personal injury figures in more detail, they show that:
- Overall, 8,725 personal injury cases were initiated in the civil courts during 2012-13, an increase of 11% compared to 2011-12. Compared to 2010-11 however, initiations of personal injury cases were still lower, by 4%.
- Over half of these related to road traffic accidents (59%) and a further one in five related to accidents at work (20%).
- The main disposals of personal injury cases were absolvitor (60%) and for the pursuer (29%).
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