The new statistics show the trends and business levels in Scotland’s civil courts with useful thematic categories like ‘Family’, ‘Debt’ and ‘Personal Injury’ and there is data relating to deceased estates (Commissary) and civil appeals.

Civil insights are included to provide users of civil data with information that has never before been published for Scotland like pursuer and defender solicitor representation levels and average weeks from case initiation to case disposal.

The statistics show that in the financial year 2024/25, Debt actions make up almost 30% of civil business (28.6%) in Scotland with Commissary the next biggest proportion of the business at 21.6% while Personal Injury accounts for 9% of civil cases then Family actions at 8.9%. 74% of Family actions relate to Divorce and Dissolution.

Commenting on the new civil statistics workbook, SCTS Executive Director Court Operations, David Fraser, said:

“These new statistics not only show the volume and sheer breadth of civil business dealt with by SCTS but provide new data insights which will be of interest to many court users and others. This demonstrates SCTS’s continued commitment to being open and transparent around justice data as well as an understanding of what civil court users want to know.”

The ‘Courts Data Scotland: Civil’ workbook is available at: http://www.scotcourts.gov.uk/official-statistics

See the Scottish Government’s website for civil data relating to the period before 2019/20: Civil Justice statistics - gov.scot