In early-February 2020, the first cases of COVID-19 in the United Kingdom (UK) were confirmed. The number of cases in the UK increased significantly at the end of 2021. On January 13, 2023, the number of confirmed cases in the UK amounted to 24,243,393. COVID deaths among highest in Europe There were 202,157 confirmed coronavirus deaths in the UK as of January 13, 2023. For further information about the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, please visit our dedicated Facts and Figures page.
Current infection rate in Europe The current infection rate in the UK was 50 cases per 100,000 population in the last seven days as of January 16. San Marino had the highest seven day rate of infections in Europe at 336.
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More detailed epidemiological charts and graphs are presented for areas in very high and high local COVID alert level areas.
See the https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/covid-19-hospital-activity/" class="govuk-link">detailed data on hospital activity.
See the https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/?_ga=2.43448994.685856970.1607933075-1070872729.1597161719" class="govuk-link">detailed data on the progress of the coronavirus pandemic.
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United Kingdom recorded 24603076 Coronavirus Cases since the epidemic began, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). In addition, United Kingdom reported 225324 Coronavirus Deaths. This dataset includes a chart with historical data for the United Kingdom Coronavirus Cases.
This dataset of historical poor law cases was created as part of a project aiming to assess the implications of the introduction of Artificial Intelligence (AI) into legal systems in Japan and the United Kingdom. The project was jointly funded by the UK’s Economic and Social Research Council, part of UKRI, and the Japanese Society and Technology Agency (JST), and involved collaboration between Cambridge University (the Centre for Business Research, Department of Computer Science and Faculty of Law) and Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo (the Graduate Schools of Law and Business Administration). As part of the project, a dataset of historic poor law cases was created to facilitate the analysis of legal texts using natural language processing methods. The dataset contains judgments of cases which have been annotated to facilitate computational analysis. Specifically, they make it possible to see how legal terms have evolved over time in the area of disputes over the law governing settlement by hiring.
A World Economic Forum meeting at Davos 2019 heralded the dawn of 'Society 5.0' in Japan. Its goal: creating a 'human-centred society that balances economic advancement with the resolution of social problems by a system that highly integrates cyberspace and physical space.' Using Artificial Intelligence (AI), robotics and data, 'Society 5.0' proposes to '...enable the provision of only those products and services that are needed to the people that need them at the time they are needed, thereby optimizing the entire social and organizational system.' The Japanese government accepts that realising this vision 'will not be without its difficulties,' but intends 'to face them head-on with the aim of being the first in the world as a country facing challenging issues to present a model future society.' The UK government is similarly committed to investing in AI and likewise views the AI as central to engineering a more profitable economy and prosperous society.
This vision is, however, starting to crystallise in the rhetoric of LegalTech developers who have the data-intensive-and thus target-rich-environment of law in their sights. Buoyed by investment and claims of superior decision-making capabilities over human lawyers and judges, LegalTech is now being deputised to usher in a new era of 'smart' law built on AI and Big Data. While there are a number of bold claims made about the capabilities of these technologies, comparatively little attention has been directed to more fundamental questions about how we might assess the feasibility of using them to replicate core aspects of legal process, and ensuring the public has a meaningful say in the development and implementation.
This innovative and timely research project intends to approach these questions from a number of vectors. At a theoretical level, we consider the likely consequences of this step using a Horizon Scanning methodology developed in collaboration with our Japanese partners and an innovative systemic-evolutionary model of law. Many aspects of legal reasoning have algorithmic features which could lend themselves to automation. However, an evolutionary perspective also points to features of legal reasoning which are inconsistent with ML: including the reflexivity of legal knowledge and the incompleteness of legal rules at the point where they encounter the 'chaotic' and unstructured data generated by other social sub-systems. We will test our theory by developing a hierarchical model (or ontology), derived from our legal expertise and public available datasets, for classifying employment relationships under UK law. This will let us probe the extent to which legal reasoning can be modelled using less computational-intensive methods such as Markov Models and Monte Carlo Trees.
Building upon these theoretical innovations, we will then turn our attention from modelling a legal domain using historical data to exploring whether the outcome of legal cases can be reliably predicted using various technique for optimising datasets. For this we will use a data set comprised of 24,179 cases from the High Court of England and Wales. This will allow us to harness Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques such as named entity recognition (to identify relevant parties) and sentiment analysis (to analyse opinions and determine the disposition of a party) in addition to identifying the main legal and factual points of the dispute, remedies, costs, and trial durations. By trailing various predictive heuristics and ML techniques against this dataset we hope to develop a more granular understanding as to the feasibility of predicting dispute outcomes and insight to what factors are relevant for legal decision-making. This will allow us to then undertake a comparative analysis with the results of existing studies and shed light on the legal contexts and questions where AI can and cannot be used to produce accurate and repeatable results.
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These reports summarise epidemiological data at lower-tier local authority (LTLA) level for England as at 10 December 2020 at 10am.
More detailed epidemiological charts and graphs are presented for areas in very high and high local COVID alert level areas.
These reports were used to give MPs an update on the status of COVID within their region for population case rate, hospital admissions and bed status, and COVID-related mortality.
See the detailed data on the https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/" class="govuk-link">progress of the coronavirus pandemic.
The magistrates court of England and Wales had 352,717 new cases in the fourth quarter of 2023, while in the same quarter the proceedings for 328,835 court cases were closed.
Data for each local authority is listed by:
These reports summarise epidemiological data at lower-tier local authority (LTLA) level for England as at 2 June 2021.
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This dataset covers people involved in family court cases in England and Wales. Three tables have been created to join together information stored across multiple tables in the raw Family Court database: Cases - contains information about cases as a whole, including case type, key dates, related cases and originating court. There is one row per case. Events - contains information about events within a case, for example, hearings, applications, orders and administrative processes. There is one row per event within the case, which can be joined to cases table on the case_number_hash.
Useful information about the Family Courts can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/family-court-statistics-quarterly-april-to-june-2023/guide-to-family-court-statistics
As of July 30, 2020, there had been more confirmed cases of coronavirus (COVID-19) among women in England compared to men. The data shows that there are few confirmed cases among children, while there have been approximately nine thousand confirmed cases for both men and women aged 80 to 84 years.
As of July 30, there have been 302,301 confirmed coronavirus cases in the UK, and the regional breakdown of cases can be found here. For further information about the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, please visit our dedicated Facts and Figures page.
This is the quarterly Q1 2020 criminal courts statistics publication.
The statistics here focus on key trends in case volume and progression through the criminal court system in England and Wales. This also includes:
Management information concerning the enforcement of financial penalties in England and Wales;
Experimental statistics on ‘the use of language interpreter and translation services in courts and tribunals;
Experimental statistics on Failure to Appear Warrants at magistrates’ courts in England and Wales.
Preliminary management information for court workload and trial efficiency to May 2020.
Consultation on the proposed change to the way in which criminal court statistics process and publish our Crown Court data.
The Crown Court information release is published as management information on the https://www.judiciary.uk/crown-court-information/" class="govuk-link">Courts and Tribunals Judiciary website. This has been affected by the changes to the administrative systems at Crown Court and as such has not been updated for Q1 2020.
Additional data tools and CSVs have also been provided.
“This report covers data to the end of March 2020, so court activity towards the end of this period has been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic – particularly measures like outstanding cases which are measured at the end of the reference period.
Figures published today show that outstanding cases, which were already rising in the Crown Court, have also risen sharply in the magistrates’ court – although courts continued to carry out urgent business and make more use of remote audio and video technology, the impact of COVID-19 is clear to see. Workload and trial efficiency estimates at both the magistrates’ courts and the Crown Court illustrate this: disposals fell, while both outstanding cases and trial vacations increased sharply. Other published measures are less clearly affected in the current release, because they are calculated at the point that a case completes in the courts.
Alongside the National Statistics we are providing more timely high-level, provisional management information to support public understanding of the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent recovery on the criminal courts systems.
It is expected that the limited operation of the criminal courts during the COVID-19 pandemic and the gradual reintroduction of jury trials at the Crown Court from 18th May 2020 will continue to have an impact on many of the published measures in future releases of Criminal court statistics quarterly.”
The next criminal court statistics publication is scheduled for release in September 2020.
In addition to Ministry of Justice (MOJ) professional and production staff, pre-release access to the quarterly statistics of up to 24 hours is granted to the following postholders:
Permanent Secretary; Director General, Policy, Communications and Analysis; Director, Criminal Justice Policy; Deputy Director, Criminal Courts Policy; Criminal Court Reform Lead; Jurisdictional and Operational Support Manager; Head of Data and Analytical Services; Chief Statistician; 5 Press Officers.
Chief Executive, HMCTS; Deputy Chief Executive, HMCTS; Deputy Director of Legal Services, Court Users and Summary Justice Reform; Head of Operational Performance; Head of Criminal Enforcement team, HMCTS; Head of data and management information, HMCTS; Head of Management Information Systems; Head of Communications; Head of News; Jurisdictional Operation manager and Head of Contracted Services and Performance for HMCTS Operations Directorate
1 Senior Policy Official and 1 Statistician.
This report presents key statistics on activity in the criminal justice system for England and Wales. It provides information up to the year ending December 2021 with accompanying commentary, analysis and presentation of longer-term trends.
The figures published today highlight the continued recovery of the criminal justice system since the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on court processes and prioritisation. The number of defendants prosecuted has increased since 2020, though it remains around 19% lower than in 2019. Summary non-motoring prosecutions have recovered at a slower rate than indictable offences.
The custody rate has fallen slightly in the latest year - this is likely due to, at least in part, the continued recovery of the courts. In 2020, during the early stages of the pandemic, courts prioritised the most serious cases, whereas, more of the cases less likely to result in custody flowed through the courts in 2021.
However, for those serious cases resulting in custody, average custodial sentence length continues to increase to a high of 24.9 months for indictable offences. This has increased year-on-year (from 16.8 months in 2011), with the only decrease in 2020 likely due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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This dataset covers the outcome of reported suspect BSE (Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy) cases in England by year and number confirmed by other means. This dataset includes the fields: Year (of case); Restricted (number of animals where movement restrictions have been imposed); Alternative diagnosis (number that were given an alternative diagnosis to BSE); Alive (number of suspects alive); Slaughtered (number of animals slaughtered); Pending (number of cases with results pending); Not confirmed (number of suspect cases where BSE was not detected); Confirmed (number of cases where BSE was detected); Others confirmed (number confirmed by other means). Please note: this data is available as part of a wider report on TSE surveillance, published on gov.uk. Attribution statement:
As of November 24, 2024 there were over 274 million confirmed cases of coronavirus (COVID-19) across the whole of Europe since the first confirmed cases in France in January 2020. France has been the worst affected country in Europe with 39,028,437 confirmed cases, followed by Germany with 38,437,756 cases. Italy and the UK have approximately 26.8 million and 25 million cases respectively. For further information about the coronavirus pandemic, please visit our dedicated Facts and Figures page.
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Provisional counts of the number of deaths registered in England and Wales, including deaths involving coronavirus (COVID-19), by local authority, health board and place of death in the latest weeks for which data are available. The occurrence tabs in the 2021 edition of this dataset were updated for the last time on 25 October 2022.
In the fourth quarter of 2023 there were an additional 26,593 crown court cases in England and Wales, and 25,269 court cases that were closed. With new court cases outstripping the number of closed cases in previous quarters, the backlog of court cases has grown significantly since 2020, and reached a peak of 67,573 in the most recent quarter.
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Forecast: Import of Watch Cases and Parts Thereof to the UK 2024 - 2028 Discover more data with ReportLinker!
This report presents the latest statistics on type and volume of cases that are received and processed through the family court system of England and Wales in the third quarter of 2021 (July to September).
The material contained within this publication was formerly contained in Court Statistics Quarterly, a publication combining Civil, Family and Criminal court statistics.
Notice: For this quarter’s publication round only, an additional csv has been published, ‘Public Law DFJ applications and orders’. This provides a breakdown of applications and orders granted for a specific set of public law and adoption related types of order.
Also there has been a revision on how domestic violence cases are counted, moving from counting all cases that involved a domestic violence remedy to counting only cases that fall under the Family Law Act (i.e. stripping out any Children Act/adoption cases already counted elsewhere).
In addition to Ministry of Justice (MOJ) professional and production staff, pre-release access to the quarterly statistics of up to 24 hours is granted to the following postholders:
Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice; Minister of State; 2 Parliamentary Under Secretary of States; Lords spokesperson; Permanent Secretary; Principal Private Secretary; Deputy Principal Private Secretary; 6 Private Secretaries; 7 Deputy Private Secretaries; 14 Assistant Private Secretaries; 3 Special Advisors; President of the Family Division; Head of News; Head of Content and Channels; Head of Communications at the Office for Public Guardian; Deputy Head of News; Senior Digital Content Manager; 2 Chief Press Officers; 2 Press Officers; Chief Finance Officer; Director General, Policy and Strategy Group; Family Justice Director, Director of Data and Analytical Services; Chief Statistician; 15 Policy and Analytical Advisors.
Interim Chief Executive; Head of Court Tribunal Service Centre; National Services Director; Head of Family Modernisation and Improvement; Delivery Director, National Business Services; Deputy Director, Family Operations; Operation lead, Divorce; Head of Operational Performance; Head of Data and MI Delivery; 3 Operational Managers.
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Forecast: Number of Notified Tuberculosis Cases in the UK 2024 - 2028 Discover more data with ReportLinker!
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Forecast: Number of Reported Measles Cases in the UK 2024 - 2028 Discover more data with ReportLinker!
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In early-February 2020, the first cases of COVID-19 in the United Kingdom (UK) were confirmed. The number of cases in the UK increased significantly at the end of 2021. On January 13, 2023, the number of confirmed cases in the UK amounted to 24,243,393. COVID deaths among highest in Europe There were 202,157 confirmed coronavirus deaths in the UK as of January 13, 2023. For further information about the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, please visit our dedicated Facts and Figures page.
Current infection rate in Europe The current infection rate in the UK was 50 cases per 100,000 population in the last seven days as of January 16. San Marino had the highest seven day rate of infections in Europe at 336.