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<p>Data on court sitting days is not routinely collected. Judge sitting days is the
closest proxy we have to court sitting days for most jurisdictions. The official statistics
for judge sitting days (tables 5.1, 5.2 and 5.3 of the Civil Justice Statistics Quarterly,
January to March 2019) were withdrawn on 5 September 2019, due to data discrepancies
that were discovered after publication on 6 June 2019 and deemed potentially misleading
to users. The data under investigation covers the period 2003 to 2018 and advise not
using the earlier editions of these figures.</p><p>These discrepancies remain under
investigation and, in line with the Code of Practice on Statistics, the Chief Statistician
and Head of Profession decided to withdraw these tables until the investigations were
complete as is normal practice. The revised figures will be published in due course,
and will provide the total sitting days in Family, Civil and Crown courts.</p><p>Given
that we are most of the way through 2019, to provide a forecast for 2019 would pre-empt
the publication of Official Statistics. The actual judge sitting days for 2019 will
be published in summer 2020 as is usual practice.</p>
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