2017 Ministry of Justice Annual Report [pdf, 3.7 MB]
...District Court Cost of Case model to help us quantify the average staff effort and departmental costs of each case type to progress through the District Court. The key insight from this analysis was that category 3 cases consumed over 70% of criminal resources despite being only 30% of criminal volume. This variation in effort has enabled us to consistently analyse each court’s workload, and allocate front-line resources to where the need is, rather than simply where the volume o...