Family court statistics quarterly: July to September 2014
Source: data.gov.uk (2018-05-25)

Family Court Statistics. The bulletin presents the latest statistics on the type and volume of family cases that are received and processed through the justice system of England and Wales.

It focuses on all areas of family justice including public and private law cases; matrimonial matters e.g. divorce; domestic violence remedy orders; forced marriage protection orders; female genital mutilation protection orders; adoption; mental capacity e.g. Court of Protection and Office of the Public Guardian, and the Probate Service.  Data available include number of cases starting and disposed of, applications and orders made, timeliness measures and legal representation.  Data are available at a national, regional and designated family judge (DFJ) area. 

These statistics are used to monitor court workloads, assist in the development of family justice policy and its subsequent monitoring and evaluation.

Family Court Statistics
Quarterly

July to September 2014

Ministry of Justice
Statistics bulletin

Published 18 December 2014

Contents
Contents
1
Introduction
2
Key Findings
4
Section 1 - The Family Justice System
5
Section 2 - Public Law
6
Section 3 - Private Law
10
Section 4 - Legal representation
12
Section 5 - Matrimonial matters
15
Section 6 - Domestic Violence
18
Section 7 - Forced Marriage Protection Orders
19
Section 8 - Adoptions
20
Contacts
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Introduction
This is the first edition of a new statistical bulletin presenting statistics
relating to family courts. These statistics were previously published within
Court Statistics Quarterly Statistics which, after consultation, has been split
into separate policy focussed publications. There is no loss of information
resulting from this separation.
It presents statistics on activity in the family courts of England and Wales
and provides provisional figures for the latest quarter (July to September
2014) with accompanying commentary and analysis. The figures give a
summary overview of the volume of cases dealt with by these courts over
time, with statistics also broken down for the main types of case involved.
The statistics are used to monitor court workloads, to assist in the
development of policy, and their subsequent monitoring and evaluation.
Information on Civil Cases can be found here:
www.gov.uk/government/collections/civil-justice-statistics
Information on Criminal cases can be found here:
www.gov.uk/government/collections/criminal-justice-statistics-quarterly
Information on publicly funding legal services is now published by the Legal
Aid Agency and can be found here:
www.gov.uk/government/collections/legal-aid-statistics
There is also a separate Guide to Family Court Statistics published
alongside this publication which provides definitions for the terms used in
this report, information regarding the symbols and conventions used in the
bulletin, as well as information about the systems and data sources used to
compile the statistics.
The structure and content of this report is continually being reviewed to
reflect user requirements. If you have any feedback about the report
generally, please contact the production team using the contact details at
the back of this report.
Earlier editions of this publication can be found at:
www.gov.uk/government/collections/court-statistics-quarterly
There are a number of csv files that support this publication, in the
accompanying zip file. Further information about these files can be found
the word document ‘Guide to Family Justice - Guide to national and court-
level information.doc’, which is also included in the zip file. There are
number of csv which include;
 Designated Family Judge area level data for family cases
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 Further details for each of the ‘main tables’ published alongside this
document.
The next publication of Family Court Statistics Quarterly is scheduled to be
published on 26 March 2015, covering the period October to December
2014.
Users of the statistics
The main users of these statistics are Ministers and officials in central
government responsible for developing policy with regard to family justice.
Other users include the central government departments, and various
voluntary organisations with an interest in family justice. The data also feed
into statistics produced by the Office for National Statistics, such as public
sector productivity.

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Key Findings
This report presents statistics on activity in the family court of England and
Wales in the third quarter of 2014 (July to September).
 The number of cases that started in family courts in England and Wales
in July to September 2014 dropped 7% to 61,700 compared to the
equivalent quarter of 2013.
 In particular, there were almost a quarter fewer private law cases
starting, continuing a downward trend since Q2 2013.
 The average time for the disposal of a care or supervision application
continued to drop to just over 29 weeks (down from just over 36 weeks
in July to September 2013 and down from just over 48 weeks in July to
September 2012). This is due to the Children and Families Act 2014,
which introduced a 26 week time limit for completing these cases.
 Nearly 60% of care or supervision proceedings were disposed of within
26 weeks
 The number of private law disposals where both parties were
represented fell by 40% in July to September 2014 compared to the
same quarter the previous year. This continues the upward trend since
Q2 2013.
 The upward trend in the number of non-molestation applications
continues - up from a low of 3,729 at the end of 2011 to 5,107 in July to
September 2014.
 During July to September 2014, there were 1,766 adoption orders
issued, continuing the increasing trend and the highest number since the
beginning of 2011
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Section 1 - The Family Justice System
Until 22 April 2014, family cases were dealt with at Family Proceedings
Courts (which were part of the magistrates’ courts), at county courts or in
the Family Division of the High Court. From 22nd April 2014, all family cases
are now dealt with in the Single Family Court
Family courts deal with cases such as: parental disputes, local authority
intervention to protect children, matrimonial cases such as divorce petitions,
the financial provisions for children after divorce or relationship breakdown,
domestic violence remedies and adoption.
Total family court case caseload (Table 1)
Family courts deal with around 270,000 new cases each year. In July to
September 2014, 61,882 new cases started in family courts and 70,690
cases were concluded. Table 1 shows the total number of new cases
starting and cases reaching a conclusion in family courts in each quarter.
Figure 1 shows that, in July to September 2014, divorce made up 47% of
new cases in family courts, with private law contributing 17% and financial
remedy 15%.
Figure 1: Total family court new cases, by case type, July to
September 2014
Number of new
cases starting
Proportion of new
cases starting
Number of cases
reaching a final
disposal
Proportion of cases
reaching a final
disposal
Matrimonial matters
29,334
48%
27,966
40%
Financial remedies
9,262
15%
8,002
11%
Domestic violence
5,302
9%
4,886
7%
Private law
10,669
17%
22,435
32%
Public law
3,844
6%
4,078
6%
Adoption Act
3,237
5%
3,160
4%
Forced marriage protection
43
<1%
46
<1%

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Section 2 - Public Law
Public law cases are those brought by local authorities or, very rarely, an
authorised person to protect the child and ensure they get the care they
need. They can apply for a range of different orders. Types of order include
a care or supervision order which determines whether the child should be
looked after or supervised by the local authority, or an emergency protection
order which allows an individual or local authority to take a child away from
a place where they are in immediate danger to a place of safety.
Following the publicity surrounding the Baby P case, the number of children
involved in public law applications made by local authorities jumped in 2009
from around 20,000 to almost 26,000 per year. This had subsequently
increased in the past three years to nearly 30,000 per year. Figures have
remained fairly steady at around 7,000 per quarter - there were 7,367
children involved in public law cases in July to September 2014 (Figure 2).
The number of applications made, which can cover more than one child,
was 4,133 in July to September 2014. The trend in disposals tends to lag
behind that for applications, due to the time taken for a decision to be
reached in cases.
More than one application may be made during the life of a case. The
numbers of cases started in July to September 2014 was 3,844 (Table 2).
Figure 2: Public law applications: number of children involved, number
of application events and number of cases started, January to March
2011 to July to September 2014
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Number of applications / events / cases started
Children involved in applications
Application events
Cases started

There were 8,974 children involved in public law orders made in July to
September 2014. The number of orders made is generally higher than the
number of applications made, as some orders relate to applications made in
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an earlier time period, and an application for one type can result in an order
or orders of a different type being made.
Figure 3 shows that the most common types of order applied for in July to
September 2014 were care (69% of children involved in applications),
followed by emergency protection (7%) and discharge of a care order (7%).
There is often a different pattern between the types of order applications
and the orders that are given – this is because an application for one type
can result in an order of a different type being made. For example, there
were 292 children involved in applications in July to September 2014, but
1,579 children were involved in supervision orders made in that quarter.
The Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service (Cafcass) also
publishes data on the number of care applications, the latest edition of
which can be found here:
www.cafcass.gov.uk/news/2014/november/october-2014-care-demand-
statistics.aspx
Case level care order figures are currently not produced by the MoJ and so
no comparisons between the two datasets can be made at this time.
Figure 3: Public law applications and orders made, showing proportion
of children involved in each order type, July to September 2014
Care
EPO
Supervision
Discharge of care
Other
Applications
N= 7,367
Care
Supervision
Residence
SG
Contact
EPO
Parental
resp
Other
Orders made
N=8,974
EPO = Emergency protection order, SG = Special guardianship order, Parental resp = Parental responsibility order

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Timeliness of care proceedings
Statistics on the time taken to complete care and supervision cases in the
family courts of England and Wales are given in Table 5. This table presents
summary statistics showing the time, in weeks, between the date an
application for a care or supervision order was lodged and the date the first
care, supervision, or other substantive order was made in the case, for
those cases disposed of during each quarter.
The average time for a disposal to be made in July to September 2014 was
29 weeks, continuing the downward trend seen since January to March
2011 (Figure 4).
Figure 4: Timeliness for Care and Supervision proceedings in the
Family Court, July to September 2010 to July to September 2014
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Mean timeliness for care and supervision
proceedings
(in weeks)

The average time for a disposal can be skewed by cases that take a long
time, therefore the median time is also calculated. The median time to make
a disposal in a case was 25.1 weeks in July to September 2014 - for all
children involved in care and supervision proceedings where a decision was
reached during July to September 2014, half of the children waited 25.1
weeks or less from application to a substantive disposal, and the other half
waited at least 25.1 weeks. This median value is different to the average
(mean) quoted in the paragraph above as it is not influenced by the few very
long case durations. Figure 5 shows how many children were involved in
each timeliness band in their case proceedings for cases disposed in July to
September 2014.
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Figure 5: Timeliness for Care and Supervision proceedings showing
number of children involved in each timeliness band, July to
September 2014
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Section 3 - Private Law
The number of Private law cases started in July to September 2014 was
10,669, down by almost a quarter compared to the same time in 2013. The
trend in cases disposed tends to lag behind that for cases started due to the
time taken for a decision to be reached in cases. There were 22,435 cases
disposed in July to September 2014. Although there has been a slight
upward trend in recent quarters, this large increase in cases disposed is due
to an audit by HMCTS between July and September 2014 of all open private
law cases. The courts endeavour to continue this monitoring each month.
The number of court events does not show an increase because the cases
are being closed administratively, rather than as a result of increased court
workload.
The Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service (Cafcass) also
publishes data on the number of Private law cases started, the latest edition
of which can be found here:
www.cafcass.gov.uk/news/2014/november/october-2014-private-law-
demand-statistics.aspx
These are compared against figures in this bulletin in Figure 6, which shows
that the patterns of the two trends are very similar.
Figure 6: Comparison of the number of Private law cases received, as
recorded by Cafcass and the MoJ, January to March 2011 to July to
September 2014
Q1
2011
Q2
2011
Q3
2011
Q4
2011
Q1
2012
Q2
2012
Q3
2012
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2014
Cafcass 11,10 9,082 10,67 10,61 11,42 10,69 11,75 11,44 11,71 13,52 12,35 10,28 10,43 7,960 8,280
MoJ
14,27 11,08 13,26 12,48 13,43 12,57 13,87 12,88 13,63 15,64 14,05 11,62 12,06 9,303 10,66
0
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Number of Private law cases received

Most of the difference between the two sets of numbers is due to Cafcass
generally only receiving section 8 cases (contact, residence, prohibited
steps and specific issue) from the courts. However, even looking at just

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section 8 cases, MoJ figures have still been between 3% and 9% higher
than Cafcass figures over the last two years. Differences between the two
data sets include the following:
 Section 8 cases where all of the issues are dealt with on the day (called
'urgent without notice' applications) should not be sent to Cafcass.
 Section 8 cases which are not listed within the Private Law Programme
(PLP) and do not have a first hearing dispute resolution appointment
(FHDRA) should also not be sent to Cafcass.
 Certain non-section 8 cases can be sent to Cafcass if the subject child is
a party to on going proceedings (and a Cafcass officer has been
appointed as the children’s guardian) or the court is directed to do so by
a judge or legal advisor.
This means that the two sets of figures cannot be accurately matched as it
is impossible to identify the various situations described above from
administrative data sources (particularly the 'urgent without notice'
applications).
Timeliness of private law cases
Until April to June 2014, average time to first definitive disposal had been
increasing each quarter in private law cases overall. In the most recent
quarters, this trend appears to be reversing with the average time to first
disposal at 16.8 weeks in July to September 2014 (up nearly a week from
the same time in 2013 but down half a week from the previous quarter).

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Section 4 - Legal representation
Figures on the legal representation of parties in family-related court cases
are shown in Table 6. This gives the number of disposals made during each
quarter and the average duration between application and first substantive
disposal, for divorce, public law, private law, adoption and domestic violence
cases, according to whether the applicant(s), respondent(s), both or neither
had legal representation during the case.
A breakdown of Table 6 by region is published in the CSV file that
accompanies this table.
The legal representation status reflects whether the applicant/respondent's
legal representative has been recorded or left blank. Therefore, parties
recorded as without legal representation are not necessarily self-
representing litigants in person, for example in non-contested divorce cases.
Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offender Act, 2012
The implementation of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of
Offenders Act (LASPO) in April 2013 made changes to the scope and
eligibility of legal aid.
From April 2013, legal aid is now only available for private family law cases
(such as contact or divorce) if there is evidence of domestic violence or child
abuse and child abduction cases. Legal aid remains available for public
family law cases (such as adoption).
The full details of the LASPO Act can be found here:
www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2012/10/enacted
The removal of legal aid for many private law cases has resulted in a
change in the pattern of legal representation: Figure 7 shows how this has
changed over the time. There has been an increase in cases where neither
party or only the applicant are represented, whilst those cases with only the
respondent represented have stayed relatively constant. Cases where both
parties are represented have fallen over time, with a sharp decrease seen
around the time that the LASPO reforms were implemented.
Figures show that the number of disposals for private law cases where both
parties were represented dropped by 40% in July to September 2014
compared to July to September 2013

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Figure 7: Proportion of parties in private law cases with legal
representation, January 2011 - September 2014

Timeliness of cases by legal representation
In general, across all case types, cases where both parties or the
respondent only had legal representation took longer than those cases
where only the applicant was represented or where both parties were
without legal representation. Figure 8 shows the average duration by case
type in July to September 2014.
The average case duration for divorce cases across all representation
categories has remained fairly constant over recent years, while for public
law average duration has fallen since the middle of 2012.
In private law cases, the average time to first disposal was falling until the
first quarter of 2013 when it started to rise. This increase was driven by a
sustained increased in the timeliness of cases where both parties or just the
respondent are represented whilst those without representation show no
clear pattern. In the two most recent quarters, there has been a decrease in
the timeliness for private law cases overall (Figure 9).

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Figure 8: Timeliness of cases according to legal representation of
participants, by case type, July to September 2014
Both Applicant &
Respondent
Respondent Only
Applicant Only
Neither Applicant
nor Respondent
All Cases
Public Law
30.1
27.8
15.0
13.1
27.2
Divorce (inc financial remedy)
26.2
34.4
19.9
19.8
23.2
Private Law
22.4
21.0
13.8
14.8
16.8
Adoption
47.7
22.9
31.8
9.2
11.8
Domestic violence
1.5
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Average duration (weeks)

Figure 9: Average time to first disposal in private law cases, January
to March 2011 to July to September 2014

The Legal Aid Agency (LAA - formerly the Legal Services Commission)
collects statistics on those applying for legal aid, and figures on the number
applications received and certificates granted by various Family categories
have been published in their annual and quarterly statistical reports which
can be found here:
www.gov.uk/government/collections/legal-aid-statistics

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Section 5 - Matrimonial matters
Table 7 provides the numbers of petitions and decrees granted for divorce,
annulment and judicial separation in England and Wales. It also provides a
breakdown of whether the petitioner in each case was male or female,
whether children were involved in the divorce petition, and whether the
divorce was contested or not. The CSV file that accompanies this
publication provides additional information on matrimonial proceedings such
gender of petitioner and whether children were involved or not.
Over 99% of petitions filed for matrimonial proceedings are for divorce.
There are small numbers of annulments and judicial separations. The
number of divorces is fairly stable at around 30,000 per quarter.
In addition to caseload, there are also divorce case progression figures
presented in this publication. A summary of divorce case progression can
be found in Table 8 – it shows the number and proportion of divorce cases
commencing in each quarter since 2003 that had reached certain stages by
the end of September 2014.
The table also includes an estimation of the final numbers of cases that will
reach each stage (decrees nisi, decrees absolute, financial remedy
applications, financial remedy orders, hearings, injunction applications and
injunction orders). Based on this estimation, around 90% of divorce petitions
eventually proceed to a decree absolute. Financial remedy applications and
orders are eventually made in just over a third cases, and hearings take
place in just over 10% of cases. Figure 10 illustrates these trends. This
estimation has been based on the paper “Generalised estimation method for
the number of cases that reach any stage in the court process in civil
justice” published on page 68 of A Guide to Court and Administrative Justice
Statistics.
www.gov.uk/government/statistics/guide-to-court-and-administrative-justice-
statistics

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Figure 10: Estimated case progression of divorce cases, January to
March 2009 to July to September 2014
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Number of divorce cases
Decrees Absolute
Financial Remedy Orders
Hearings

Financial remedy
During a divorce, a marriage annulment, or a judicial separation, or the
dissolution of a civil partnership, there may still be a need for the court to
settle disputes over money or property. The court can make a financial
remedy order, formerly known as ‘ancillary relief’. These orders include
dealing with the arrangements for the sale or transfer of property,
maintenance payments, a lump sum payment or the sharing of a pension.
Orders for financial provision other than for ancillary relief are not dependent
upon divorce proceedings and may be made for children.
There were 10,401 applications in July to September, 14% lower than a
year earlier. The number of disposals was 10,206, down 8% on July to
September 2013. During this period, 63% of disposals were uncontested,
28% were initially contested, and 9% were contested throughout (Table 9).
In July to September 2014, property adjustment orders and lump sum
orders accounted for about a third of disposals each (Table 10). The other
disposal types are shown in Figure 11.

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Figure 11: Financial remedy disposal types, July to September 2014
Periodical payments
Lump sum orders
Property adjustment orders
Pension sharing or attachment orders
Secure Provision Order
Maintenance pending suit
Application dismissed

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Section 6 - Domestic Violence
A range of people can apply to the court: spouses, cohabitants, ex-
cohabitants, those who live or have lived in the same household (other than
by reason of one of them being the other’s employee, tenant, lodger or
boarder), certain relatives (for example, parents, grandparents, in-laws,
brothers, sisters), and those who have agreed to marry one another.
Two types of order can be granted:
 a non-molestation order, which can either prohibit particular behaviour or
general molestation by someone who has previously been violent
towards the applicant and/or any relevant children; and,
 an occupation order, which can define or regulate rights of occupation of
the home by the parties involved.
Figure 12: Applications for domestic violence protection orders, 2008
to 2014

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Number of domestic violence applications
Non-Molestation
Occupation

As shown in Figure 12, the number of occupation applications is stable at
around 1,250 per quarter. The number of non-molestation applications has
risen from a low of 3,729 at the end of 2011 to 5,107 in July to September
2014.

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Section 7 - Forced Marriage Protection Orders
The Forced Marriage (Civil Protection) Act 2007 came into force on 25
November 2008. The Act amended Part IV of the Family Law Act to enable
15 designated courts to make Forced Marriage Protection Orders (FMPOs)
to prevent forced marriages from occurring and to offer protection to victims
who might have already been forced into a marriage.
The number of applications and orders made for FMPOs is very small. For
July to September 2014, there were 63 applications and 66 orders made.
Although these numbers are small there has been an increase since last
quarter, as show by Figure 11. The Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and
Policing Act 2014 came into force on 16 June 2014 and made it an offence
to force a person to marry against their will, or to breach a FMPO. This may
have increased applications for FMPOs because of increased awareness.
The increase in disposals was greater for orders without power of arrest
attached.
Figure 13: Applications and Disposals of Forced Marriage Protection
Orders, 2008 to 2014
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Total applications made
Total disposals

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Section 8 - Adoptions
An adoption order made by a court extinguishes the rights, duties and
obligations of the natural parents or guardian and vests them in the
adopters. On adoption the child becomes for virtually all purposes in law the
child of its adoptive parents and has the same rights of inheritance of
property as any children born to the adoptive parents. Most adoptions in the
UK are ‘standard’ adoptions. Data is also provided in the table on other
adoptions, which include foreign adoptions, convention adoptions and
standard adoptions that include a foreign element. An adoption order is
preceded by a placement order which allows a local authority to place a
child with prospective adopters, unless parental consent has been given for
the placement.
In July to September 2014, there were 1,226 applications made for a
placement order, and 1,706 applications made for an adoption order.
During July to September 2014, there were 1,766 adoption orders issued,
continuing the increasing trend and the highest number since the beginning
of 2011. In 71% of these, the adopters were a male/female couple, while in
15% the adopter was a sole applicant. In a further 5% the adopter was a
step-parent and in 9% the adopters were a same-sex couple (Figure 14).
Figures on the sex and age band of adopted children can be found in Table
14 and timeliness figures can be found in Table 6. A wider range of
breakdowns for adoption applications and orders, for example by type of
order, can be produced from the accompanying CSV file.
Figure 14: Adoption orders issued, by adopter, January to March 2011
to July to September 2014
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Q1
2014
Q2
2014
Q3
2014
Number of adoption orders issued
Male/ female couple
Sole applicant
Step parent
Same sex couple

20

Family Court Statistics Quarterly July to September 2014

21
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