Justice written question – answered at on 10 March 2014.
Sadiq Khan
Shadow Minister (London), Shadow Lord Chancellor and Shadow Secretary of State for Justice, Shadow Lord Chancellor and Shadow Secretary of State for Justice
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice in what proportion of cases heard in the Commercial Court in each of the last 10 years one or more of the parties was domiciled or registered outside the jurisdiction.
Shailesh Vara
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Justice
The Commercial Court started recording the number of cases involving foreign parties in 2008 so no data are available prior to that year.
| Financial Year | Claims Issued | Cases with at least one party whose address is outside England and Wales | Percentage of Foreign Cases |
| 2008-09 | 1,076 | 774 | 71.93 |
| 2009-10 | 1,236 | 929 | 75.16 |
| 2010-11 | 1,136 | 929 | 81.78 |
| 2011-12 | 1,144 | 942 | 82.34 |
| 2012-13 | 1,190 | 961 | 80.76 |
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