If there is one, just one, publication you should read in the judicial year it is the Court of Justice’s annual report.
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The Court of Justice, the General Court and the Civil Service Tribunal have published their annual report for 2013.
You can access it here.
It contains a wealth of statistics, of course, which we summarised in our previous post.
What is, however, especially valuable in the annual report is the well written, concise, no nonsense summary of the case law for 2013. That is a superb resource if you want to catch up on last year’s cases at little intellectual cost.
The Court of Justice has released an abridged version of its annual statistics for 2013 ahead of its annual report. Get the press release here.
The Court of Justice received a record number of new cases in 2013: it received 699 new cases. That is a 10 % increase over 2012.
The number of preliminary references reached the highest number ever : 450 new cases.
The Court of Justice completed 701 cases in 2013, compared with 595 in 2012.
As for the duration of proceedings, preliminary references took 16.3 months, appeals 16.6 months and direct actions took 24.3 months.
Urgent preliminary references (PPUs) took 2.2 months.
The General Court received 790 new cases in 2013, a dramatic 30 % increase over 2012. The growth in the number of all cases seen over the past years is confirmed in all sectors but the increase in the field of intellectual property is greater than in other sectors.
The duration of cases reduced slightly, by one month, and the average duration is now about 30 months.
More to follow no doubt when the annual reports for 2013 are released.
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