Table 1
Charges and cases completed in adult criminal court, Canada, 2005/2006 to 2014/2015 Table 1
Charges and cases completed in adult criminal court, Canada, 2005/2006 to 2014/2015

Table 1
Charges and cases completed in adult criminal court, Canada, 2005/2006 to 2014/2015
Table summary
This table displays the results of Charges and cases completed in adult criminal court. The information is grouped by Year (appearing as row headers), Total charges and Total cases, calculated using number and percent change from previous year units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Year	Total charges^{Table 1 Note 1}		Total cases^{Table 1 Note 2}
Year	number	percent change from previous year	number	percent change from previous year
2005/2006	1,094,431	Note ...: not applicable	382,322	Note ...: not applicable
2006/2007	1,109,587	1.4	380,537	-0.5
2007/2008	1,151,509	3.8	393,193	3.3
2008/2009	1,187,324	3.1	398,697	1.4
2009/2010	1,224,191	3.1	410,051	2.8
2010/2011	1,224,787	0.0	409,957	0.0
2011/2012	1,196,169	-2.3	394,116	-3.9
2012/2013	1,182,345	-1.2	387,614	-1.6
2013/2014	1,134,483	-4.0	379,058	-2.2
2014/2015	992,635	-12.5	328,028	-13.5
... not applicable Note 1. A charge refers to a formal accusation against an accused person or company involving a federal statute offence that has been processed by the courts and received a final decision. Return to note 1 referrer Note 2. 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. Return to note 2 referrer Note: 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: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Integrated Criminal Court Survey.

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