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The Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service has published today statistics on civil business in Scotland. The period covered is 2019/20 to 2025/26.
The updated 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 2025/26, Debt actions make up over a quarter of civil business (26.2%) in Scotland with Commissary the next biggest proportion of the business at 15.6% while Personal Injury accounts for 10.4% of civil cases then Family actions at 9.6%. 73% of Family actions relate to Divorce and Dissolution.
You can find the latest civil and criminal information on the SCTS Statistics webpage
