Table 11
Appearances, charges and cases completed in adult criminal superior court, Canada, 2007/2008 to 2015/2016

Table 11
Appearances, charges and cases completed in adult criminal superior court, Canada, 2007/2008 to 2015/2016
Table summary
This table displays the results of Appearances. The information is grouped by Year (appearing as row headers), Total appearances, Total charges and Total cases, calculated using number, percent change from previous year and percent change from previous year units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Year Total appearancesTable 11 Note 1 Total chargesTable 11 Note 2 Total casesTable 11 Note 3
number percent change from previous year number percent change from previous year number percent change from previous year
2007/2008 171,532 Note ...: not applicable 17,027 Note ...: not applicable 4,449 Note ...: not applicable
2008/2009 191,433 11.6 18,549 8.9 4,609 3.6
2009/2010 175,612 -8.3 16,456 -11.3 4,130 -10.4
2010/2011 199,420 13.6 16,505 0.3 3,804 -7.9
2011/2012 184,026 -7.7 15,333 -7.1 3,513 -7.6
2012/2013 168,369 -8.5 14,609 -4.7 3,772 7.4
2013/2014 150,662 -10.5 12,938 -11.4 3,409 -9.6
2014/2015 157,961 4.8 12,176 -5.9 3,217 -5.6
2015/2016 147,732 -6.5 13,105 7.6 3,099 -3.7
... not applicable
Note 1

An appearance refers to the act of attending court, either in person or as represented by legal counsel, in response to a criminal charge(s). One appearance is counted for each unique date associated with a charge (e.g., appearances on three different days equals three charge appearances).

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Note 2

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.

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Note 3

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.

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Note: Data excludes information from superior courts in Prince Edward Island, Ontario, Manitoba and Saskatchewan due to the unavailability of data. Also excludes data from Nunavut, where there is one single level of court in which judges hear all matters. Also excludes charges/cases in which the length was unknown.
Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Integrated Criminal Court Survey.

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