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Version: 1.1.0 | Published: 28 Aug 2024 | Updated: 161 days ago
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Ministry of Justice Data First Civil Court Iteration 2 - England and Wales

Dataset

Summary

Citation:
Ministry of Justice, released 27 June 2024, ONS SRS Metadata Catalogue, dataset, Ministry of Justice Data First Civil Court Iteration 2 - England and Wales, https://doi.org/10.57906/kr8s-ad13

Documentation

Description:
The Ministry of Justice Data First civil court dataset provides data on civil justice cases heard by the county courts in England and Wales from 2012. Data has been extracted from the CaseMan and Possession Claims Online (PCOL) management information systems, used by His Majesty's Courts and Tribunals Service (HMCTS) to manage civil law cases within the county courts. Information is included on individual civil actions (including money claims, damages, bankruptcy, and mortgage and landlord possession cases); the people involved as parties to the case and their role; and key case dates, processes and outcomes (such as monetary amounts awarded in judgments). There are separate tables for cases or claims, parties, events in the case, hearings, judgments and warrants, which can be joined together. A civil case will usually have multiple people or companies involved (for example a claimant and defendant) and may have many events, which are each included as a separate record. These depend on the type of case and its progress. As part of Data First, records have been deidentified and deduplicated, using our probabilistic record linkage package, Splink, so that a unique identifier is assigned to all records believed to relate to the same person, allowing for longitudinal analysis and investigation of repeat appearances. This opens up the potential to address questions on, for example, common transitions between different civil actions and patterns associated with repeat involvement in the civil court system.

Coverage

Spatial

Spatial Coverage:
  • England
  • Wales
Geographical Levels:
  • local authority district
  • lsoa11

Temporal

Start Date:
01 January 2012
Latest Data:
31 January 2022
Frequency:
IRREGULAR
Distribution Release Date:
27 June 2024

Provenance

Source:
Administrative

Access and Governance

Usage

Condition of Access:
  • Access needs approval
  • Restricted access
Condition of Use:
  • Special statistical disclosure rules
  • Output required for approval
Resource Creator:
Office for National Statistics

Access

Access Service:
  • Safe Rooms, SafePods
  • Assured Organisational Connectivity – office based
  • Assured Organisational Connectivity – remote access
Jurisdictions:
GB-EAW
Data Controller:
Ministry of Justice
Access Level:
Access Level 3

Format and Standards

Languages:
en
Formats:
CSV

Enrichment and Linkage

Related Datasets:
  • Data First Prison Iteration 2 - England and Wales
  • Ministry of Justice Data First Probation Iteration 2 - England and Wales
  • Ministry of Justice Data First Crown Court Iteration 2 - England and Wales
  • Ministry of Justice Data First Family Court Iteration 2 - England and Wales
  • Ministry of Justice Data First Magistrates Court Iteration 2 - England and Wales
  • MoJ Data First cross-justice system linking dataset – England and Wales