{"metric":"crown_court_trial_waiting_weeks","title":"Crown Court median waiting time for trial","topic":"justice","unit":"weeks","measure_type":"estimate","geography":"K04000001","comparison_method":"same_quarter_previous_year","latest":{"period_start":"2026-01-01","period_end":"2026-03-31","period_label":"2026 Q1","value":21.5714285714286,"status":"final","vintage":"2026-06-25"},"comparison":{"period_label":"2025 Q1","value":20,"vintage":"2026-06-25"},"source":{"publisher":"Ministry of Justice","publication":"Criminal court statistics quarterly: Crown Court waiting times","landing_url":"https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/criminal-court-statistics","sheet":"Table_C7","table":"Table C7","row":"2026 Q1","column":"Total all for trial: Median [note 21]","raw_value":"21.5714285714286","file_url":"https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/criminal-court-statistics","file_sha256":"b6823b9b68923d7039050194eb303b8fc1a1071f5f6a555585d15cf21146dd40","release_date":"2026-06-25","release_label":"January to March 2026"},"definition":"The median weeks a defendant sent for trial waited from their case reaching the Crown Court to the start of the trial, for trial cases closed in the quarter.\n","does_not_measure":"Sentence cases and appeals (the all-cases measure includes them), time at the magistrates' court, or cases still waiting — only closed cases are measured, so the figure lags the backlog.\n","links":{"page":"/justice/crown-court-trial-waiting-weeks","series":"/api/metrics/crown_court_trial_waiting_weeks/series","vintages":"/api/metrics/crown_court_trial_waiting_weeks/vintages"}}