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Cases completed in adult criminal court, Canada, 2007/2008 to 2016/2017

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number of completed adult criminal court cases 340,000 350,000 360,000 370,000 380,000 390,000 400,000 410,000 420,000 2007/2008 2009/2010 2011/2012 2013/2014 2015/2016
Note(s):
A case is one or more charges against an accused person or company that were processed by the courts at the same time and received a final decision. Data exclude information from superior courts in Prince Edward Island, Ontario, Manitoba and Saskatchewan as well as municipal courts in Quebec due to the unavailability of data.
Source(s):
Integrated Criminal Court Survey (3312).

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Cases completed in adult criminal court, Canada, 2007/2008 to 2016/2017
  number of completed adult criminal court cases
2007/2008 393,193
2008/2009 398,697
2009/2010 410,051
2010/2011 409,957
2011/2012 394,116
2012/2013 387,614
2013/2014 379,058
2014/2015 352,019
2015/2016 351,061
2016/2017 357,642
Note(s):
A case is one or more charges against an accused person or company that were processed by the courts at the same time and received a final decision. Data exclude information from superior courts in Prince Edward Island, Ontario, Manitoba and Saskatchewan as well as municipal courts in Quebec due to the unavailability of data.
Source(s):
Integrated Criminal Court Survey (3312).
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