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Crown Court timeliness (E&W)
Part of the Rule of Law and Safety domain. Median number of days from offence to completion in Crown Court in England and Wales, measuring the responsiveness of the criminal justice system.
Latest data
Latest reading
Q1 2026
A higher reading is treated as worse for this indicator.
Score composition
Stress score
Blended from three components: (60% weight), trend (30% weight) and volatility (10% weight). Full formula on the methodology page.
Level · 60% weight
Percentile: this metric is scored against its own history, where today sits between its best and worst recorded years.
Trend · 30% weight
Measured from the direction and size of the change between the two most recent readings.
Volatility · 10% weight
100Measured from how much this indicator has swung period on period across its recorded history.
Data confidence and provenance
Confidence and source
How much weight to put on the reading, the mean data-confidence across the component metrics (source quality, recency and completeness).
Source
Criminal court statistics quarterly
- Update frequency
- Quarterly
- Reliability
- high
Provenance
- Provider
- Ministry of Justice
- Series ID
- Crown Court median days offence→completion
- Frequency
- quarterly
- Accessed
- 7 July 2026
Known weakness
Median conceals large variation by case type; the offence date is not always accurately recorded, and case complexity changes over time affect average timeliness independently of capacity.
Notes
Verified official value from Ministry of Justice (Crown Court median days offence→completion), accessed 2026-07-07.
Historical values
History
| Period | Value | Relative |
|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 254 | |
| 2020 | 322 | |
| 2021 | 436 | |
| 2022 | 371 | |
| 2023 | 366 | |
| 2024 | 313 | |
| 2025 | 338 | |
| 2026 | 346 |