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Case Statistics
1840s Cases
Court Type
Supreme Court Cases
359
Vice Admiralty Court
2
Case Type
Criminal Cases
177
Civil Cases
173
Public Cases
11
Cases by Judge
Chief Justice Martin
181
Justice Chapman
177
Justice Halswell
5
Cases by Location
Auckland
124
Wellington
212
Nelson
25
Parties by Ethnicity
Pakeha
350
Maori
13
Parties by Gender
Males
355
Females
9
Total number of cases
361
1850s Cases
Court Type
Supreme Court Cases
496
Court of Appeals Cases
1
Vice Admiralty Court
2
Case Type
Criminal Cases
313
Civil Cases
180
Public Cases
6
Cases by Judge
Chief Justice Martin
72
Justice Chapman
47
Justice Stephen
147
Justice Wakefield
61
Justice Gresson
89
Justice Johnston
38
Chief Justice Arney
46
Cases by Location
Auckland
172
Wellington
181
Nelson
86
Dunedin
3
Christchurch
56
New Plymouth
1
Parties by Ethnicity
Pakeha
484
Maori
17
Parties by Gender
Males
483
Females
22
Total number of cases
499
1860s Cases
Court Type
Supreme Court Cases
3382
Court of Appeal Cases
78
Vice Admiralty Court
1
Case Type
Criminal Cases
2249
Civil Cases
1153
Public Cases
59
Cases by Judge
Chief Justice Arney
631
Justice Chapman
490
Justice Richmond
715
Justice Gresson
839
Justice Johnston
682
Justice Moore
295
Justice Ward
139
Cases by Location
Auckland
817
Wellington
458
Nelson
173
Dunedin
1002
Christchurch
531
New Plymouth
43
Invercargill
111
Hokitika
212
Napier
105
Timaru
3
Parties by Ethnicity
Pakeha
3337
Maori
102
Parties by Gender
Males
3311
Females
198
Total number of cases
3461
Please note that the judges' statistics include Court of Appeal sittings where multiple judges preside over the same case. This means that the combined total of cases heard by each judge will not match the total number of cases for each decade.
The statistics for ethnicity and gender include the number of individual cases involving each demographic not the total number of defendants or plaintiffs in each case.
The Banner Image is taken from C.W. Richmond Judge's Notebooks, Vol.1-3, 1864-1873, MSS R532,
J.C. Beaglehole Room, Victoria University of Wellington