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Ministry of Justice · Criminal court statistics quarterly

Crown Court disposals

2026 Q1 Final

29,600cases

Crown Court disposals were 29,600 cases in 2026 Q1, up 5.9% (1,640) from 27,960 in 2025 Q1.

▲ 5.9% · +1,640 against 2025 Q1 (same quarter previous year)

  1. Ministry of Justice count
  2. 2026 Q1
  3. published 25 June 2026
  4. Table C1
  5. row “2026 Q1”
  6. column “All cases: disposals”
  7. cell value 29600

The series is rising. Rule: up 5.9% from 2025 Q1 to 2026 Q1.

2016 Q1 to 2026 Q1

Crown Court disposals: 2016 Q1 to 2026 Q1ConservativeConservativeConservativeConservativeConservativeLabourLabour010k20k30k2016201820202022202420262016 Q1: 32,100 cases · published 25 June 20262016 Q2: 31,038 cases · published 25 June 20262016 Q3: 29,598 cases · published 25 June 20262016 Q4: 27,402 cases · published 25 June 20262017 Q1: 29,988 cases · published 25 June 20262017 Q2: 28,153 cases · published 25 June 20262017 Q3: 27,937 cases · published 25 June 20262017 Q4: 26,964 cases · published 25 June 20262018 Q1: 26,967 cases · published 25 June 20262018 Q2: 25,449 cases · published 25 June 20262018 Q3: 25,742 cases · published 25 June 20262018 Q4: 25,460 cases · published 25 June 20262019 Q1: 25,309 cases · published 25 June 20262019 Q2: 24,179 cases · published 25 June 20262019 Q3: 24,754 cases · published 25 June 20262019 Q4: 23,132 cases · published 25 June 20262020 Q1: 22,813 cases · published 25 June 20262020 Q2: 12,045 cases · published 25 June 20262020 Q3: 19,922 cases · published 25 June 20262020 Q4: 21,791 cases · published 25 June 20262021 Q1: 23,074 cases · published 25 June 20262021 Q2: 23,570 cases · published 25 June 20262021 Q3: 23,589 cases · published 25 June 20262021 Q4: 23,156 cases · published 25 June 20262022 Q1: 24,451 cases · published 25 June 20262022 Q2: 22,206 cases · published 25 June 20262022 Q3: 19,701 cases · published 25 June 20262022 Q4: 23,761 cases · published 25 June 20262023 Q1: 25,420 cases · published 25 June 20262023 Q2: 24,003 cases · published 25 June 20262023 Q3: 26,406 cases · published 25 June 20262023 Q4: 26,303 cases · published 25 June 20262024 Q1: 28,233 cases · published 25 June 20262024 Q2: 28,185 cases · published 25 June 20262024 Q3: 29,534 cases · published 25 June 20262024 Q4: 28,236 cases · published 25 June 20262025 Q1: 27,960 cases · published 25 June 20262025 Q2: 28,823 cases · published 25 June 20262025 Q3: 28,836 cases · published 25 June 20262025 Q4: 28,787 cases · published 25 June 20262026 Q1: 29,600 cases · published 25 June 2026
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What this measures

The number of criminal cases disposed of by the Crown Court in England and Wales during the quarter, counted once all offences for all defendants on the case have a final result or have been remitted to the magistrates' court.

What this doesn’t measure

Cases disposed of by magistrates' courts, the outcome of those cases, or cases in Scotland and Northern Ireland.

Important caveat

A receipt is a case received from the magistrates' courts in the quarter, including cases sent for trial or sentence, appeals of magistrates' decisions and requests for retrial. A disposal is counted once all offences for all defendants on the case have a final result recorded or have been remitted to the magistrates' court. From the October to December 2024 edition these figures come from the One Crown data pipeline and are not directly comparable with earlier editions of the table. Data before 2014 was produced on a different methodology.

Revision history

No period of this series has been revised since it was first ingested here. Revisions are recorded automatically when a later release publishes a different figure for the same period.

Source

Publisher
Ministry of Justice
Publication
Criminal court statistics quarterly
Release
January to March 2026, published 25 June 2026
Source file
ccsq_2026Q1.ods
File SHA-256
b6823b9b68923d7039050194eb303b8fc1a1071f5f6a555585d15cf21146dd40
Retrieved
2 September 2026
Sheet
Table_C1
Table
Table C1
Row
2026 Q1
Column
All cases: disposals
Cell value
29600
Geography
England and Wales
Unit
cases
API
/api/metrics/crown_court_disposals · /series · /vintages

Government periods

Change during each government, from the level inherited to the last complete period before it left office. Describes the period; does not attribute cause.

Labour 2024–28,1852024 Q229,6002026 Q1↑ 5.0%
Conservative 2019–202424,7542019 Q328,1852024 Q2↑ 13.9%
Conservative 2017–201929,9882017 Q124,7542019 Q3↓ 17.5%

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Release
January to March 2026 · publication page
Last updated
25 June 2026
Next release expected
September 2026 (estimated from the usual cadence)