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Crown Court: Recorders

Answer

The table below sets out the data held per month for the number of Recorders who hold a live Crime ticket (weekly data is not available) over the 12 months to June 2025, which is the latest month for which the data is available. It also sets out the number of Recorders who sat for at least 1 day in the Crown Court during that same month.

It should be noted that many Recorders will hold multiple tickets, so the Recorders listed here who have not sat in the Crown Court may have been sitting in Family or Civil instead. In addition, Recorders may have other professional obligations which mean that they are not available to sit in a particular month.

The Deputy Prime Minister recently announced an additional 1,250 sitting days in the Crown Court this year, which means the Crown Court will be able to sit for 111,250 days this year, 5,000 more than the days initially allocated last year. This enables the Crown Court to sit more days this year than ever before.

YEAR/MONTH	RECORDERS WITH CRIME AUTHORISATIONS	DAYS RECORDERS SAT IN CROWN
2024/07	889	299
2024/08	886	299
2024/09	884	301
2024/10	881	257
2024/11	878	251
2024/12	874	182
2025/01	874	183
2025/02	872	167
2025/03	871	167
2025/04	867	228
2025/05	864	216
2025/06	862	241

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

HL10908

Session

2024-26

Subjects

Barristers Crown Court Solicitors Recorders

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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