Table 2
Charges completed in adult criminal court, under and over presumptive ceiling, by court level, Canada, 2006/2007 to 2015/2016

Table 2
Charges completed in adult criminal court, under and over presumptive ceiling, by court level, Canada, 2006/2007 to 2015/2016
Table summary
This table displays the results of Charges completed in adult criminal court. The information is grouped by Year (appearing as row headers), Provincial court, Superior court, Under presumptive ceiling and Over presumptive ceiling, calculated using number and percent units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Year Provincial court Superior court
Under presumptive ceiling Over presumptive ceilingTable 2 Note 1 Under presumptive ceiling Over presumptive ceilingTable 2 Note 1
number percent number percent number percent number percent
2006/2007 1,038,419 94.1 65,092 5.9 5,600 92.2 476 7.8
2007/2008 1,064,291 93.8 70,191 6.2 15,327 90.0 1,700 10.0
2008/2009 1,101,478 94.2 67,297 5.8 16,261 87.7 2,288 12.3
2009/2010 1,135,064 94.0 72,671 6.0 14,762 89.7 1,694 10.3
2010/2011 1,137,255 94.1 71,027 5.9 14,731 89.3 1,774 10.7
2011/2012 1,106,000 93.7 74,831 6.3 13,599 88.7 1,734 11.3
2012/2013 1,093,578 93.7 74,131 6.3 12,107 82.9 2,502 17.1
2013/2014 1,045,977 93.3 75,565 6.7 10,910 84.3 2,028 15.7
2014/2015 993,622 93.4 70,713 6.6 10,084 82.8 2,092 17.2
2015/2016 1,039,852 93.9 67,702 6.1 11,160 85.2 1,945 14.8
Note 1

In provincial court, charges completed in more than 18 months (without a preliminary inquiry) or more than 30 months (with a preliminary inquiry) are over the presumptive ceiling. In superior court, charges completed in more than 30 months (with or without a preliminary inquiry) are over the presumptive ceiling.

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Note: In 2006/2007, the number of superior court charges is underestimated and the number of provincial court charges is overestimated, due to data reporting limitations in Quebec. This has an inevitable impact on the proportion of charges under/over the presumptive ceiling in that particular year. Charge lengths are calculated based on the number of days it takes to complete a charge, from first appearance to final decision. A charge refers to a formal accusation against an accused person or company involving a federal statute offence that has been processed by the courts and received a final decision. Data excludes information from superior courts in Prince Edward Island, Ontario, Manitoba and Saskatchewan as well as municipal courts in Quebec due to the unavailability of data. Also excludes charges in which the length was unknown.
Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Integrated Criminal Court Survey.

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