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<p>Information on how many Recorders have sat to hear cases in each year has only
been held centrally since 2017/18. The below table, however, sets out the number of
Recorders in post at 1<sup>st</sup> April of each year since 2010. We expect Recorders
in post to have been offered the opportunity to sit.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Number
of Recorders<sup>1</sup></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>1,233</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>1,221</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>1,155</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>1,196</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>1,126</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>1,031</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>1,130</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017</p></td><td><p>920</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018</p></td><td><p>830</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019</p></td><td><p>873</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>
</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><sup>1 </sup>Figures are at 1st April of each year.</p></td></tr></tbody></table><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Some
Recorders hold more than one judicial appointment. In such cases, the appointment
that the judicial office holder undertakes for the majority of their time is known
as their primary appointment. In order to avoid double counting of judges, this table
shows figures for primary appointments only and as such will not count judges whose
appointment as a Recorder is not their primary appointment.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Figures
are from the published Judicial Diversity Statistics which can be found here: <a href="https://www.judiciary.uk/publication-type/statistics/"
target="_blank">https://www.judiciary.uk/publication-type/statistics/</a></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Recorders
sit mainly in the Crown, County and Family Courts. Figures on court sitting days are
published on Gov.uk and the latest information covering 2018 is available here. It
is part of the Royal Courts of Justice Annual Tables (which contain at Tables 5.1
and 5.2 a breakdown of sitting days by type of work and level of judge): <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>.
This information covers both England and Wales and is published annually.</p></td></tr></tbody></table>
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