Family Proceedings: Legal Representation

Ministry of Justice written question – answered at on 14 July 2023.

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Photo of Afzal Khan Afzal Khan Shadow Minister (Justice)

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many open family cases there are in each Designated Family Judge area for public and private family law; and what proportion of those cases in each area involve litigants in person.

Photo of Mike Freer Mike Freer Assistant Whip, The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Justice

Count of the Private and Public Law Open Caseload as at the 31st March 2023 broken down to include cases without a representative

DESIGNATED FAMILY JUDGE AREA

Public  Law Open Caseload

Private Law Open Caseload

Unrepresented1

Total Cases

Unrepresented1

Total Cases

Birmingham

57

280

1211

1696

Blackburn/Lancaster

80

373

751

1063

Bournemouth and Dorset

17

91

202

335

Brighton

36

270

946

1353

Bristol (A, NS and G)

55

330

822

1190

Business Centres

0

4

2

3

Carlisle

14

114

131

220

Central London

187

666

2691

3485

Cleveland and South Durham

82

371

289

461

Coventry

27

131

513

778

Derby

36

223

461

711

Devon

92

347

615

994

East London

189

676

2313

3412

Essex and Suffolk

68

374

2051

2939

Guildford

31

149

559

854

Humberside

74

297

372

570

Leicester

23

186

451

679

Lincoln

18

127

292

474

Liverpool

200

799

959

1532

Luton

28

172

520

704

Manchester

234

882

1658

2483

Medway and Canterbury

127

421

1291

1759

Milton Keynes

53

272

604

923

North Wales

39

144

183

310

North Yorkshire

14

83

201

356

Northampton

24

152

410

558

Northumbria and North Durham

95

503

551

934

Norwich

26

187

527

793

Nottingham

47

246

705

1039

Peterborough and Cambridge

26

145

423

650

Portsmouth (Hampshire and IOW)

82

291

974

1362

Reading

37

212

566

921

South East Wales

73

284

645

1084

South Yorkshire

70

391

418

705

Stoke on Trent

68

320

653

965

Swansea

39

155

351

713

Swindon

15

93

291

435

Taunton

21

113

251

412

Truro

12

97

191

326

Watford

13

90

566

847

West London

96

524

1813

2556

West Yorkshire

164

706

1079

1639

Wolverhampton

99

471

947

1417

Worcester

17

111

318

525

Grand Total

2805

12873

31767

47165

Unrepresented1 data is a subset of Publish Management Information. This is Management Information; the data is taken from a live management information system and can change over time and may differ from previously published data.

1. Unrepresented' refers to parties where no representative is recorded. Therefore, they should be considered as parties without a recorded representative, rather than 'litigants in person'.

Although care is taken when processing and analysing the data, the details are subject to inaccuracies inherent in any large-scale case management system.

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