Court statistics discontinued

Statistics Finland discontinues the production and publication of statistics on court decisions in 2015. The reason for the discontinuation is that required funding has not been acquired to produce the statistics. Statistics Finland has already earlier announced that it will reduce its statistics production due to its tightening economic situation.

The statistics to be discontinued are:

Decisions by administrative courts
Decisions by courts of appeal
Public legal aid
Decisions by the Supreme Administrative Court
Decisions by the Supreme Court
Decisions by district courts in criminal cases
Decisions by district courts in civil cases
Decisions by the prosecutor

The previously released data and time series of these statistics remain on Statistics Finland's web pages on the home page and databases of each set of statistics.

Some of the data included in these statistics will in future be available in the Ministry of Justice's Tuomioistuinten työtilastoja (Courts' work statistics) publications and in the annual reports of courts and the Finnish Prosecution Service.

Press release on 18 December 2014: Changes to the production of statistics and products in 2015
Ministry of Justice's home page

Further information: Kimmo Moisio tel. +358 29 551 3239