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


 

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