Table 2
Active1 general civil cases,2 by type of action,3 2019/2020 to 2023/2024
| 2019/2020 | 2019/2020 | 2020/2021 | 2020/2021 | 2021/2022 | 2021/2022 | 2022/2023 | 2022/2023 | 2023/2024 | 2023/2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| number | % change of previous year | number | % change of previous year | number | % change of previous year | number | % change of previous year | number | % change of previous year | |
| Landlord and tenant | 2,874 | 8 | 1,610 | -44 | 1,753 | 9 | 1,899 | 8 | 1,933 | 2 |
| Employment | 8,561 | 6 | 8,154 | -5 | 8,876 | 9 | 8,792 | -1 | 8,991 | 2 |
| Mortgage foreclosure | 26,128 | 11 | 16,696 | -36 | 17,404 | 4 | 17,881 | 3 | 22,376 | 25 |
| Lien | 10,067 | 8 | 7,466 | -26 | 7,325 | -2 | 7,361 | 0 | 8,968 | 22 |
| Collection | 42,637 | -3 | 29,197 | -32 | 33,529 | 15 | 36,159 | 8 | 40,575 | 12 |
| Other and unknown contract | 37,915 | 2 | 29,780 | -21 | 34,259 | 15 | 34,528 | 1 | 36,375 | 5 |
| Motor vehicle | 145,164 | 5 | 136,301 | -6 | 124,426 | -9 | 110,601 | -11 | 99,079 | -10 |
| Malpractice | 3,951 | 1 | 3,282 | -17 | 3,557 | 8 | 3,566 | 0 | 3,687 | 3 |
| Defamation | 766 | 4 | 609 | -20 | 753 | 24 | 778 | 3 | 809 | 4 |
| Negligence | 3,344 | 13 | 3,598 | 8 | 3,870 | 8 | 3,678 | -5 | 3,497 | -5 |
| Other and unknown tort | 44,372 | 3 | 39,979 | -10 | 43,422 | 9 | 42,308 | -3 | 42,445 | 0 |
| Bankruptcy | 23,586 | -0 | 17,852 | -24 | 19,111 | 7 | 16,463 | -14 | 16,809 | 2 |
| Probate | 38,514 | 4 | 36,963 | -4 | 42,801 | 16 | 44,567 | 4 | 41,200 | -8 |
| Administrative law | 1,290 | -9 | 1,040 | -19 | 1,474 | 42 | 1,243 | -16 | 1,439 | 16 |
| Enforcement | 7,188 | -18 | 2,717 | -62 | 4,352 | 60 | 5,041 | 16 | 5,899 | 17 |
| Adult protection and committeeship | 423 | -6 | 293 | -31 | 526 | 80 | 584 | 11 | 626 | 7 |
| Civil protection | 1,659 | 4 | 1,200 | -28 | 1,435 | 20 | 1,876 | 31 | 2,132 | 14 |
| Constitutional or charter | 307 | 2 | 244 | -21 | 277 | 14 | 328 | 18 | 289 | -12 |
| Unspecified other general civil and unknown | 216,706 | -5 | 143,431 | -34 | 170,853 | 19 | 178,446 | 4 | 190,888 | 7 |
Note(s):
The Civil Court Survey excludes data from Newfoundland and Labrador, Quebec, and Manitoba, provinces that are not yet reporting information to the survey. This table also excludes data from Saskatchewan for data availability reasons. Criminal court cases are out of scope for this survey. Percentages may not add up to 100% because of rounding. In this table, 2020/2021 (April 1, 2020, to March 31, 2021) is considered as the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Source(s):
Civil Court Survey (5052).
Table note 1
Active caseloads in the courts are measured by the number of cases with at least one court event that moved all or part of the case through the court process during the year and thus include newly initiated cases.
Table note 2
A general civil case is any civil action that is not a family-related action, such as contracts, torts, bankruptcy, probate matters and other claims involving money.
Table note 3
See Note to Readers for a list of general civil case types and definitions.
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