A high 89.4% of reserved District Court decisions were delivered within three months of the end of the hearing in the year to 30 June 2018, the District Court Annual Report states.
This was up on the previous year when 87.8% of reserved decisions were delivered within three months.
Most of the reserved decisions are delivered within the first month after the hearing, with 62.9% of the decisions in the 2017/18 year.
Reserved decisions in civil hearings (64.8%) were most likely to be delivered within one month, followed by Family Court (64.6%) and criminal hearings (57.2%).
Time taken to deliver reserved decisions in District Court, year to 30 June
| Proceedings | 2018 | 2018 % | 2017 | 2017 % |
| Criminal | ||||
| 0 to 1 month | 147 | 57.2% | 105 | 53.3% |
| 1 to 3 month | 87 | 33.8% | 64 | 32.5% |
| 3 to 6 months | 20 | 7.8% | 25 | 12.7% |
| 6 to 9 months | 3 | 1.2% | 3 | 1.5% |
| Total | 257 | 197 | ||
| Family Court | ||||
| 0 to 1 month | 369 | 64.6% | 355 | 62.4% |
| 1 to 3 month | 141 | 24.7% | 149 | 26.2% |
| 3 to 6 months | 53 | 9.3% | 53 | 9.3% |
| 6 to 9 months | 5 | 0.9% | 8 | 1.4% |
| 9 to 12 months | 2 | 0.3% | 2 | 0.4% |
| 12 months + | 1 | 0.2% | 2 | 0.4% |
| Total | 571 | 569 | ||
| Civil | ||||
| 0 to 1 month | 149 | 64.8% | 141 | 62.4% |
| 1 to 3 month | 52 | 22.6% | 57 | 25.2% |
| 3 to 6 months | 23 | 10.0% | 24 | 10.6% |
| 6 to 9 months | 6 | 2.6% | 4 | 1.8% |
| Total | 230 | 226 | ||
| All decisions | ||||
| 0 to 1 month | 665 | 62.9% | 601 | 60.6% |
| 1 to 3 month | 280 | 26.5% | 270 | 27.2% |
| 3 to 6 months | 96 | 9.0% | 102 | 10.3% |
| 6 to 9 months | 14 | 1.3% | 15 | 1.5% |
| 9 to 12 months | 2 | 0.2% | 2 | 0.2% |
| 12 months + | 1 | 0.1% | 2 | 0.2% |
| Total | 1058 | 992 | ||