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Caseload statistics 2022

View the 2022 caseload figures for the number of cases handled by the Singapore courts.

View the caseloads for each court in 2022:

Supreme Court.
State Courts.
Family Justice Courts.

Supreme Court

The Supreme Court received 12,668 new civil and criminal matters in 2022. 12,509 matters were disposed of in the same corresponding period. The clearance rate for all civil and criminal matters for 2022 was 95%.

The following table shows the number of cases filed, the number of cases disposed of, and the clearance rate, in 2022 for each type of civil proceedings and criminal proceedings (based on the information compiled as at 31 August 2023).

Proceedings	No. of cases filed	No. of cases disposed of	Clearance rate
Civil Originating Processes	6,885	5,998	87%
Civil Interlocutory Applications	4,588	4,785	104%
Appeals before the General Division of the High Court	441	458	103%
Appeals before the Appellate Division of the High Court	121	114	43%
Applications before the Appellate Division of the High Court	94	89	95%
Appeals before the Court of Appeal	59	71	120%
Applications before the Court of Appeal	50	67	134%

Proceedings	No. of cases filed	No. of cases disposed of	Clearance rate
Criminal Cases	69	68	99%
Criminal Motions before the General Division of the High Court	116	121	104%
Magistrate's Appeals	226	203	90%
Criminal Revisions	11	13	118%
Criminal Appeals	31	41	132%
Criminal Motions before the Court of Appeal	35	39	111%

State Courts

There were 159,798 cases filed in State Courts in 2022 and 180,357 cases were disposed of. The clearance rate for 2022 was 113%.

Types of cases	No. of cases filed	No. of cases disposed of	Clearance rate
Criminal cases ⁽¹⁾	125,410	143,878	115%
Civil cases	22,187	24,506	110%
Community Justice and Tribunals cases	12,201	11,973	98%
Total	159,798	180,357	113%

Note: The figures are accurate at the time of publishing.

Types of cases	No. of cases filed
Criminal charges	27,843
Departmental or statutory board charge and Summonses	60,411
Traffic charges and Summonses	31,875
Coroner’s Court cases	5,281
Magistrate’s Complaints ⁽²⁾	0
Total	125,410

Note: The figures are accurate at the time of publishing.

Originating process

Types of cases	No. of cases filed
Writs of Summons/Originating Claims ⁽³⁾	11,638
Originating Summonses/Originating Applications ⁽⁴⁾	448
Total	12,086

Interlocutory application

Types of cases	No. of cases filed
Summonses ⁽⁵⁾	6,014
Summonses for Directions (Order 25 or 37)	2,545
Summary Judgments (Order 14)	44
Total	8,603

Others

Types of cases	No. of cases filed
Taxations	85
Assessments of damages	1,413
Total	1,498

Note: The figures are accurate at the time of publishing.

Types of cases	No. of cases filed
Community Disputes Resolution Tribunals (CDRT) claims	189
Employment Claims Tribunals (ECT) claims	999
Magistrate's Complaints	1,348
Protection from Harassment Court (PHC) cases	552
Small Claims Tribunals (SCT) claims	9,113
Total	12,201

Note: The figures are accurate at the time of publishing.

Court Dispute Resolution ⁽⁶⁾	No. of cases filed
(Civil) Writs of Summons, Originating Summonses	3,508
(Community) Protection from Harassment Court (PHC) cases, Community Disputes Resolution Tribunals (CDRT) claim, Magistrate’s Complaints	462
Total	3,970

Note: The figures are accurate at the time of publishing.

Family Justice Courts

Total number of cases handled by the Family Justice Courts is 27,338 for 2022.

Caseload	No. of cases filed	No. of cases disposed of	Clearance rate
Maintenance & Family Violence	4,959	4,954	99%
Divorce, Originating Summons & Probate & Summons	21,402	20,941	98%
Youth Court	977	989	101%
Total	27,338	26,884	98%

Footnotes

⁽¹⁾ Includes District arrest charges, Magistrates’ arrest charges and other types of charges.

⁽²⁾ Non-relational Magistrate’s Complaints are counted as criminal cases. Relational Magistrate’s Complaints are counted as Community Justice and Tribunals cases.

⁽³⁾ Writs of Summons are now called Originating Claims under the Rules of Court 2021 with effect from 1 April 2022.

⁽⁴⁾ Originating Summonses are now called Originating Applications under the Rules of Court 2021 with effect from 1 April 2022.

⁽⁵⁾ Excludes Summonses for Directions (Order 25 or 37).

⁽⁶⁾ Refers to fresh cases handled by the Court Dispute Resolution cluster in the respective years.

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