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<p>The number of sittings days sat by recorders in the last three financial years
in the requested locations are set out in the table below. These figures cover sitting
days by recorders in County, Family and Crown Courts.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>
</p></td><td><p>1 April 2016 to 31 March 2017</p></td><td><p>1 April 2017 to 31 March
2018</p></td><td><p>1 April 2018 to 31 December 2018<sup>1</sup></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>England</p></td><td><p>30,769</p></td><td><p>30,459</p></td><td><p>16,801</p></td><td><p>
</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Greater London</p></td><td><p>9,578</p></td><td><p>8,907</p></td><td><p>4,566</p></td><td><p>
</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Greater Manchester</p></td><td><p>1,522</p></td><td><p>1,720</p></td><td><p>907</p></td><td><p>
</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><sup>1 </sup>Note these figures are only
for nine months as opposed to the twelve months in the columns for 2016/17 and 2017/18.
This is because the latest published data only runs to December 2018 and under the
Code of Practice for Official Statistics we cannot provide any more recent data until
that data (covering 2019) has been published. The data for 2019 will be published
in June 2020.</p><p> </p><p>The latest published data is available here. <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/civil-justice-statistics-quarterly-january-to-march-2019"
target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/civil-justice-statistics-quarterly-january-to-march-2019</a>.
It is part of the Royal Courts of Justice Annual Tables (which contain at Table 5.2
a breakdown of sitting days by type of work and level of judge)</p><p> </p><p>The
data source for these figures are a number of operational systems and as such are
liable to change and may not reflect previously published statistics.</p><p> </p><p>Last
year Crown Court trial waiting times were at their lowest since 2014, with this year’s
allocation of sitting days reflecting this.</p>
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