Table 7
Completed adult criminal court cases, including and excluding offences against the administration of justice, Canada, provinces and territories, 2005/2006 to 2013/2014

Table 7
Completed adult criminal court cases, including and excluding offences against the administration of justice, Canada, provinces and territories, 2005/2006 to 2013/2014
Table summary
This table displays the results of Completed adult criminal court cases. The information is grouped by Province and territory (appearing as row headers), 2005/2006, 2006/2007, 2007/2008, 2008/2009, 2009/2010, 2010/2011, 2011/2012, 2012/2013 and 2013/2014, calculated using number of completed cases units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Province and territoryNote 1 2005/2006 2006/2007 2007/2008 2008/2009 2009/2010 2010/2011 2011/2012 2012/2013 2013/2014
number of completed casesNote 2
Newfoundland and Labrador  
Include offences against the administration of justice 1,635 1,543 1,755 1,733 1,818 1,901 1,891 1,824 1,821
Exclude offences against the administration of justice 3,430 3,265 3,474 3,665 3,949 3,881 4,067 3,615 3,329
Total 5,065 4,808 5,229 5,398 5,767 5,782 5,958 5,439 5,150
Prince Edward Island  
Include offences against the administration of justice 294 328 336 349 369 400 368 443 427
Exclude offences against the administration of justice 977 1,096 1,088 979 1,078 1,134 1,034 989 885
Total 1,271 1,424 1,424 1,328 1,447 1,534 1,402 1,432 1,312
Nova Scotia  
Include offences against the administration of justice 3,449 3,733 4,487 4,710 4,889 4,603 4,618 4,330 4,116
Exclude offences against the administration of justice 8,368 8,012 8,106 8,248 8,635 8,664 7,791 7,578 7,369
Total 11,817 11,745 12,593 12,958 13,524 13,267 12,409 11,908 11,485
New Brunswick  
Include offences against the administration of justice 2,176 2,358 2,447 2,542 2,797 2,753 2,794 2,812 2,718
Exclude offences against the administration of justice 5,379 5,299 5,294 5,647 5,914 5,701 5,427 4,972 4,623
Total 7,555 7,657 7,741 8,189 8,711 8,454 8,221 7,784 7,341
QuebecNote 3  
Include offences against the administration of justice 17,856 18,750 19,278 20,402 21,440 21,527 22,565 24,108 20,195
Exclude offences against the administration of justice 49,835 49,322 47,545 48,861 49,020 46,232 46,945 49,943 42,649
Total 67,691 68,072 66,823 69,263 70,460 67,759 69,510 74,051 62,844
Ontario  
Include offences against the administration of justice 52,208 54,406 55,242 55,387 54,997 56,092 52,062 50,000 47,847
Exclude offences against the administration of justice 95,599 94,974 96,324 96,426 101,781 105,263 99,347 94,399 86,043
Total 147,807 149,380 151,566 151,813 156,778 161,355 151,409 144,399 133,890
Manitoba  
Include offences against the administration of justice 8,223 7,670 8,312 9,045 9,570 10,033 9,914 10,921 10,692
Exclude offences against the administration of justice 9,628 8,894 8,265 8,527 9,025 9,075 8,756 8,175 8,366
Total 17,851 16,564 16,577 17,572 18,595 19,108 18,670 19,096 19,058
Saskatchewan  
Include offences against the administration of justice 9,959 8,366 10,757 10,910 11,291 12,550 11,423 11,756 11,550
Exclude offences against the administration of justice 11,451 9,288 11,370 11,695 12,207 12,608 11,957 12,025 11,503
Total 21,410 17,654 22,127 22,605 23,498 25,158 23,380 23,781 23,053
Alberta  
Include offences against the administration of justice 22,012 23,240 25,081 24,161 24,411 24,017 24,300 23,826 24,000
Exclude offences against the administration of justice 31,709 31,418 31,867 33,716 35,444 33,813 31,987 31,997 32,346
Total 53,721 54,658 56,948 57,877 59,855 57,830 56,287 55,823 56,346
British Columbia  
Include offences against the administration of justice 13,010 14,370 15,725 15,493 15,354 14,991 15,524 14,600 14,413
Exclude offences against the administration of justice 31,237 30,536 32,096 31,507 31,290 29,573 26,512 24,824 21,437
Total 44,247 44,906 47,821 47,000 46,644 44,564 42,036 39,424 35,850
Yukon  
Include offences against the administration of justice 417 411 459 456 575 502 461 494 525
Exclude offences against the administration of justice 478 491 537 501 553 591 528 437 460
Total 895 902 996 957 1,128 1,093 989 931 985
Northwest Territories  
Include offences against the administration of justice 594 509 675 906 942 1,022 933 763 654
Exclude offences against the administration of justice 858 729 851 883 1,078 1,069 963 815 811
Total 1,452 1,238 1,526 1,789 2,020 2,091 1,896 1,578 1,465
Nunavut  
Include offences against the administration of justice 594 617 770 896 747 910 914 930 818
Exclude offences against the administration of justice 946 912 1,052 1,052 877 1,052 1,035 1,038 1,043
Total 1,540 1,529 1,822 1,948 1,624 1,962 1,949 1,968 1,861
Canada  
Include offences against the administration of justice 132,427 136,301 145,324 146,990 149,200 151,301 147,767 146,807 139,776
Exclude offences against the administration of justice 249,895 244,236 247,869 251,707 260,851 258,656 246,349 240,807 220,864
Total 382,322 380,537 393,193 398,697 410,051 409,957 394,116 387,614 360,640
Note 1.

There are many factors that influence variations between jurisdictions. These may include Crown and police charging practices, offence distributions, and various forms of diversion programs. Therefore, comparisons between jurisdictions should be interpreted with caution.

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Note 2.

A case is one or more charges against an accused person or company, which were processed by the courts at the same time (date of offence, date of initiation, date of first appearance, date of decision, or date of sentencing), and received a final decision. The case definition changed for the 2006/2007 release of data. Consequently, comparisons should not be made with data tables and reports released before that time. Cases are counted according to the fiscal year in which they are completed.

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Note 3.

The information from Quebec's provincial courts is reported using the Adult Criminal Court Survey National Data Requirements (NDR), rather than the Integrated Criminal Court Survey (ICCS) NDR. The data are converted to the ICCS format, to the extent possible, during data processing activities. This reporting limitation results in a lack of data on conditional sentences, Controlled Drugs and Substances Act (CDSA) offences and has an impact on measures of case elapsed time. Furthermore, some drug offences have been coded to the 'other federal statutes' category. This inflates the other federal statutes group and undercounts drug offences.

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Note: As of 2005/2006, all provincial and territorial courts in 10 provinces and 3 territories reported to the Integrated Criminal Court Survey. Information from superior courts in Prince Edward Island, Quebec, Ontario, Manitoba and Saskatchewan as well as municipal courts in Quebec were unavailable.
Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Integrated Criminal Court Survey.
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