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 "title": "Crown Court open caseload, England and Wales",
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  "A case is open while any defendant on it has an offence without a final result. Each figure is a snapshot of the cases live at the end of the quarter, not receipts less disposals, and leaves out cases where a defendant is absent with a bench warrant out for their arrest.",
  "The MoJ revises every earlier quarter in each release, so all the figures come from the latest one. Since its October to December 2024 release it counts cases through its One Crown data pipeline, so they are not directly comparable with editions of the table before then."
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     "v": 40292.0
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     "x": "2017 Q4",
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    },
    {
     "x": "2018 Q1",
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     "x": "2018 Q2",
     "v": 35753.0
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    {
     "x": "2018 Q3",
     "v": 34765.0
    },
    {
     "x": "2018 Q4",
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    },
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     "x": "2021 Q1",
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     "v": 60314.0
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     "x": "2022 Q1",
     "v": 58541.0
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     "x": "2022 Q3",
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     "x": "2022 Q4",
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    {
     "x": "2023 Q1",
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     "x": "2023 Q2",
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     "x": "2023 Q3",
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     "x": "2024 Q1",
     "v": 69303.0
    },
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     "x": "2024 Q2",
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    },
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     "x": "2024 Q3",
     "v": 73142.0
    },
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     "x": "2024 Q4",
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     "x": "2025 Q1",
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     "x": "2025 Q2",
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     "x": "2025 Q3",
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     "x": "2026 Q1",
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