Crown Court open caseload, England and Wales
Criminal cases open in the Crown Court in England and Wales at the end of each quarter, since January to March 2016.
Open cases at the quarter's end
80,829
Q2 2026
Verified against source, 28 October 2026, 23:42 UTCSource: Ministry of Justice. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Data table
42 periods, newest first
| Period | Open cases |
|---|---|
| Q2 2026 | 80,829 |
| Q1 2026 | 80,437 |
| Q4 2025 | 80,462 |
| Q3 2025 | 79,700 |
| Q2 2025 | 78,226 |
| Q1 2025 | 76,798 |
| Q4 2024 | 74,472 |
| Q3 2024 | 73,142 |
| Q2 2024 | 71,184 |
| Q1 2024 | 69,303 |
| Q4 2023 | 67,599 |
| Q3 2023 | 66,790 |
| Q2 2023 | 65,068 |
| Q1 2023 | 62,471 |
| Q4 2022 | 63,142 |
| Q3 2022 | 63,471 |
| Q2 2022 | 59,867 |
| Q1 2022 | 58,541 |
| Q4 2021 | 59,008 |
| Q3 2021 | 60,314 |
| Q2 2021 | 61,218 |
| Q1 2021 | 60,176 |
| Q4 2020 | 57,378 |
| Q3 2020 | 51,589 |
| Q2 2020 | 43,403 |
| Q1 2020 | 41,202 |
| Q4 2019 | 38,341 |
| Q3 2019 | 35,622 |
| Q2 2019 | 34,388 |
| Q1 2019 | 33,264 |
| Q4 2018 | 33,188 |
| Q3 2018 | 34,765 |
| Q2 2018 | 35,753 |
| Q1 2018 | 36,951 |
| Q4 2017 | 39,082 |
| Q3 2017 | 40,292 |
| Q2 2017 | 41,185 |
| Q1 2017 | 41,775 |
| Q4 2016 | 43,170 |
| Q3 2016 | 43,520 |
| Q2 2016 | 44,916 |
| Q1 2016 | 48,308 |
Source and licence
- Publisher
- Ministry of Justice
- Check it yourself
- https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/criminal-court-statistics
- Licence
- Open Government Licence v3.0 – Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
- Retrieved
- 28 October 2026, 23:40 UTC
- Raw files fetched
- https://www.gov.uk/api/content/government/statistics/criminal-court-statistics-quarterly-april-to-june-2026SHA-256 f6b760d2bdc6f53478ddc17669a4b8de299e7e9f19980a351c735b5b31f6cc98 · 24,531 bytes
- https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6ab26e5d734e2435f202ee60/ccsq_publication_tables_2026Q2.odsSHA-256 3134c8b09b526838dd9edf6eb2c62d22ad5ded467b100566086403b22f7c198a · 340,455 bytes
Verification
Verified against source, 28 October 2026, 23:42 UTC Run at 28 October 2026, 23:42 UTC; 42 of 42 figures matched the live source.
| Result | Check | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| Pass | Provenance recorded | Ministry of Justice; Open Government Licence v3.0; retrieved 2026-10-28T23:40:13Z; 2 raw file(s) |
| Pass | Raw files match recorded SHA-256 | 2 of 2 files intact |
| Pass | Re-parsing raw files reproduces figures | 42 of 42 figures and the headline reproduced |
| Pass | Figures are finite numbers | 42 figures, 0 invalid |
| Pass | Live source matches every figure | 42 of 42 figures match exactly after downloading 2 source file(s) again (2 byte-identical); the headline matches |
| Pass | GOV.UK table is current | latest period 2026 Q2 ended 120 days before retrieval (limit 200), from Criminal court statistics quarterly: April to June 2026 (tables) |
| Pass | Table O1 agrees | 42 of 42 figures match the open cases counted in Table O1 of the same tables |
| Pass | Receipts, disposals and open cases tool agrees | 42 of 42 figures match the all-offences pivot in https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6ab1379a086ce7c57b8187b1/cc_rdos_tool.xlsx, from the same release |
| Pass | Source page answers | https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/criminal-court-statistics – HTTP 200 |
Notes
- 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.