The tables below depict the total number of court hours magistrates’ courts work in each day in each region.
1 DISTRICT COURT MAGISTRATES COURT HOURS
Admin Cluster |
Criminal |
Civil |
Family |
Hrs p/magistrate p/day |
EC A |
2:07 |
0:30 |
1:11 |
3:48 |
EC B |
2:40 |
0:22 |
1:39 |
4:41 |
FS A |
1:00 |
0:11 |
0:33 |
1:44 |
FS B |
1:38 |
0:12 |
0:41 |
2:31 |
GP 5 |
0:20 |
0:18 |
0:28 |
1:06 |
GP 5A |
6:28 |
2:55 |
5:56 |
15:19 |
KZN A |
2:20 |
0:45 |
1:29 |
4:34 |
KZN B |
1:48 |
0:25 |
0:58 |
3:11 |
LP |
2:15 |
0:28 |
1:39 |
4:22 |
MP |
1:51 |
0:27 |
1:10 |
3:28 |
NC |
1:38 |
0:12 |
1:01 |
2:51 |
NW |
1:33 |
0:32 |
1:31 |
3:36 |
WC A |
1:50 |
0:31 |
1:05 |
3:26 |
WC B |
2:30 |
0:28 |
1:21 |
4:19 |
Grand Total |
1:53 |
0:32 |
1:19 |
3:44 |
2. REGIONAL MAGISTRATES COURT HOURS
Table - Criminal Court Performance Overview
Region |
Court Days |
New Cases |
Number of Trials Enrolled |
Number Of Trials Finalised |
s 77 & 78 |
Withdrawals |
SOR |
Warrants of arrest |
Actual Court Hours |
Average Court Hours |
Clearance Rate |
Enrolled Trials per day |
Finalised Trials per day |
Throughput in hours per case |
EC |
10627 |
6926 |
29623 |
3888 |
59 |
1298 |
844 |
737 |
33230:11 |
03:07 |
99% |
2.79 |
0.37 |
08:25 |
FS |
4795 |
3275 |
12180 |
1555 |
24 |
804 |
432 |
449 |
13557:12 |
02:49 |
100% |
2.54 |
0.33 |
08:35 |
GP |
16346 |
9684 |
36075 |
4100 |
126 |
3882 |
1335 |
1057 |
49804:25 |
03:02 |
108% |
2.21 |
0.26 |
11:47 |
KZN |
13393 |
6751 |
23644 |
3121 |
85 |
1363 |
550 |
469 |
41350:09 |
03:05 |
83% |
1.77 |
0.24 |
12:53 |
LP |
4985 |
3177 |
13679 |
1142 |
27 |
691 |
124 |
235 |
14953:03 |
02:59 |
70% |
2.74 |
0.23 |
12:47 |
MP |
3021 |
3480 |
14279 |
1082 |
22 |
614 |
420 |
333 |
10200:15 |
03:22 |
71% |
4.73 |
0.37 |
09:14 |
NC |
2898 |
955 |
6427 |
864 |
17 |
437 |
205 |
140 |
9215:49 |
03:10 |
174% |
2.22 |
0.30 |
10:27 |
NW |
4059 |
1481 |
8285 |
792 |
43 |
534 |
283 |
274 |
10576:29 |
02:36 |
130% |
2.04 |
0.21 |
12:39 |
WC |
7581 |
5691 |
19869 |
2769 |
21 |
1894 |
825 |
743 |
24882:34 |
03:16 |
110% |
2.62 |
0.37 |
08:55 |
Total |
67705 |
41420 |
164061 |
19313 |
424 |
11517 |
5018 |
4437 |
207770:08 |
03:04 |
98% |
2.42 |
0.29 |
10:31 |
Table - Civil Trials Overview
Region |
Court Days |
Applications Enrolled |
Applications Finalized |
Trials Enrolled |
Trials Finalized |
Actual Court Hours |
Average Court Hours |
% Applications finalised |
%Trials Finalised |
Applications finalised per day |
Trials finalised per day |
EC |
1380 |
1907 |
1308 |
4979 |
3338 |
2914:35 |
02:06 |
69% |
67% |
0.95 |
2.42 |
FS |
709 |
1112 |
643 |
3305 |
2262 |
922:02 |
01:18 |
58% |
68% |
0.91 |
3.19 |
GP |
3948 |
6453 |
3740 |
11191 |
7178 |
7665:03 |
01:56 |
58% |
64% |
0.95 |
1.82 |
KZN |
2351 |
6588 |
3181 |
9763 |
5736 |
5568:53 |
02:22 |
48% |
59% |
1.35 |
2.44 |
LP |
1677 |
2301 |
1318 |
5055 |
2492 |
3363:45 |
2:00 |
57% |
49% |
0.79 |
1.49 |
MP |
1174 |
2114 |
1207 |
5602 |
2434 |
2626:19 |
02:14 |
57% |
43% |
1.03 |
2.07 |
NC |
317 |
161 |
104 |
802 |
609 |
363:50 |
01:08 |
65% |
76% |
0.33 |
1.92 |
NW |
1070 |
1476 |
761 |
3413 |
2124 |
1734:40 |
01:37 |
52% |
62% |
0.71 |
1.99 |
WC |
1313 |
4146 |
2169 |
5372 |
3444 |
2873:33 |
02:11 |
52% |
64% |
1.65 |
2.62 |
Total |
13939 |
26258 |
14431 |
49482 |
29617 |
28032:40 |
02:00 |
55% |
60% |
1.04 |
2.12 |