Legal Research

Supreme Court of Canada Statistics 1997-2007

By Michel-Adrien Sheppard

The Supreme Court of Canada has published a special edition of its Bulletin of Proceedings that contains a statistical overview of its work for the period 1997-2007.

Tables include:

• number of complete applications for leave to appeal and notices of appeal as of right filed by litigants with the Court?s Registry each year;
• number of leave applications granted and the percentage granted of the total submitted;
• number of appeals heard each year and the number of hearing days over the year;
• information with respect to the number of judgments rendered each year;
• time lines in the life of a case: time between the filing of a complete application for leave to appeal and the Court?s decision on whether leave should be granted; time lapse between the hearing of the appeal and the delivery of reasons.

Cross-posted to Library Boy.

Full post as published by Slaw.ca on March 05, 2008 (boomark / email).