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  • 1. Family law cases in civil courts 2024/2025
    Stats in brief: 11-001-X202608527883
    Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin
    Release date: 2026-03-26
  • 2. Criminal court outcomes of Black accused persons in Canada, 2016/2017 to 2022/2023
    Articles and reports: 85-002-X202600100003
    Description: Using linked data from the Census of Population and the Integrated Criminal Court Survey, this article examines court decisions, sentencing outcomes, case lengths and selected sociodemographic characteristics of Black adult accused persons in Canadian criminal courts. Where relevant, comparisons by type of offence, fiscal year and province or territory are made. The analysis focuses on adult criminal court cases completed between 2016/2017 and 2022/2023.
    Release date: 2026-03-24
  • 3. Criminal court outcomes of Black accused persons in Canada
    Stats in brief: 11-001-X202608340911
    Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin
    Release date: 2026-03-24
  • 4. Trends in reconvictions among adults sentenced to provincial custody or community supervision 2015/2016 to 2020/2021
    Stats in brief: 11-001-X202605040529
    Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin
    Release date: 2026-02-19
  • 5. Canadian general civil caseloads from 2019/2020 to 2023/2024
    Stats in brief: 11-001-X202602040570
    Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin
    Release date: 2026-01-20
  • 6. Trafficking in persons in Canada, 2024
    Articles and reports: 85-002-X202500100008
    Description: This Juristat article examines trends and characteristics in human trafficking incidents that were reported by police in Canada from 2014 to 2024. Data are also presented to examine decisions and outcomes of human trafficking cases completed in the adult criminal courts between 2013/2014 and 2023/2024.
    Release date: 2025-12-08
  • 7. Disparities in decision and sentencing outcomes between Indigenous accused and White accused in adult criminal court, 2016/2017 to 2020/2021
    Articles and reports: 85-002-X202500100001
    Description: This Juristat article examines the extent to which adult criminal court outcomes differ between Indigenous people and White people accused of criminal offences in Canada from 2016/2017 to 2020/2021. Differences in decision and sentencing outcomes are examined overtime and broken down by gender, age, province/region, type of offence, and criminal history. Additionally, results are presented separately for First Nations people, Métis, and Inuit accused. This study uses linked data from the Integrated Criminal Court Survey (ICCS) and the 2016 Census of Population.
    Release date: 2025-05-06
  • 8. Disparities in decision and sentencing outcomes between Indigenous accused and White accused in adult criminal court 2016/2017 to 2020/2021
    Stats in brief: 11-001-X202512637006
    Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin
    Release date: 2025-05-06
  • 9. Online child sexual exploitation: Criminal justice outcomes of police-reported incidents in Canada, 2014 to 2021
    Articles and reports: 85-002-X202500100003
    Description: Online child sexual exploitation captures a wide range of criminal offences involving victims aged 17 years and younger, including luring, invitation to sexual touching, and non-consensual distribution of intimate images, as well as online child pornography (including child pornography generated using artificial intelligence).

    Using a data file linking police-reported data from the Uniform Crime Reporting Survey to court data from the Integrated Criminal Court Survey, this Juristat article explores how online child sexual exploitation incidents progress through the criminal justice system, from police to courts. More specifically, the article examines the criminal justice outcomes (i.e., charges laid, decisions made in relation to these charges and, where possible, sentencing outcomes) of online child sexual exploitation incidents reported by police between 2014 and 2021 that resulted in a completed court case between fiscal years 2013/2014 and 2022/2023.
    Release date: 2025-03-11
  • 10. Online child sexual exploitation incidents in Canada: From the police to criminal courts
    Stats in brief: 11-627-M2025022
    Description: Using a data file linking police-reported data from the Uniform Crime Reporting Survey with court data from the Integrated Criminal Court Survey, this infographic is a visual representation of how online child sexual exploitation incidents reported by police between 2014 and 2021 proceeded through the criminal justice process. Physical assault incidents involving victims aged 17 years and younger are used as a benchmark for comparison.
    Release date: 2025-03-11
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  • 1. Maintenance Enforcement Programs in Canada: Description of Operations Archived
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 85-552-X
    Geography: Province or territory
    Description:

    This report presents a description of the organization and operation of provincial and territorial maintenance enforcement programs. It describes the relevant provincial legislation, highlights latest developments, provides a general description of each program, describes how each manages cases, intake/withdrawal procedures, tracing, monitoring, payment processing and enforcement practices. As such, the reader will be able to identify the variations and similarities between the various programs. All of the maintenance enforcement programs rely upon several federal acts to collect, trace and enforce support payments. Therefore, a review of the relevant federal legislation is presented first, followed by a description of each provincial and territorial maintenance enforcement program.

    Release date: 2002-08-01
  • 2. Legal Aid in Canada, Description of Operations Archived
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 85-217-X
    Geography: Province or territory
    Description:

    This publication describes the structure and administration of provincial/territorial legal aid services in Canada. It also includes information on legislation, organization, coverage, eligibility, duty counsel and tariffs.

    Release date: 2002-05-24
  • 3. National Directory of Courts in Canada Archived
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 85-510-X
    Geography: Province or territory
    Description:

    This publication includes a list of federal and provincial courts across the country. The purpose of this directory is to identify all courts (permanent and most frequently visited circuit points) in Canada by type, level, and location.

    Release date: 2000-09-26
  • 4. Legal Aid Survey
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 3308
    Description: The survey provides the justice community, academics and the public with information on revenues, expenditures, personnel, and caseload statistics associated with the delivery and administration of legal aid in Canada.
  • 5. Youth Court Survey
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 3309
    Description: The objective of the Youth Court Survey (YCS) is to develop and maintain a database of statistical information on appearances, charges, and cases in youth courts.
  • 6. Courts Resources, Expenditures and Personnel Survey
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 3310
    Description: The objective of this survey is to provide information on the human resources and costs associated with the operation of Canadian courts.
  • 7. Integrated Criminal Court Survey
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 3312
    Description: The objective of the Integrated Criminal Court Survey (ICCS) is to develop and maintain a national database of statistical information on appearances, charges, and cases in youth courts and adult criminal courts. The survey is intended to be a census of pending and completed federal statute charges heard in provincial-territorial and superior courts in Canada. Appeal courts, federal courts (e.g., Tax Court of Canada) and the Supreme Court of Canada are not covered by the survey.
  • 8. Survey of Maintenance Enforcement Programs
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 3324
    Description: This survey collects statistical and descriptive information on child and spousal support payments from provincial and territorial maintenance enforcement programs.
  • 9. Civil Court Survey
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 5052
    Description: The primary objective of the Civil Court Survey is to develop and maintain a national civil court database of statistical information on court events and cases. It is intended to collect comparable, national level baseline data on civil court activity in Canada.
  • 10. Office of the Commissioner for Federal Judicial Affairs Canada (FJA)
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 5366
    Description: Data from the Office of the Commissioner for Federal Judicial Affairs Canada will be used to create an indicator for the Gender Results Framework. The purpose is to present the gender distribution of federally appointed judges in federal, provincial and territorial courts.

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