France: duration time in courts by type

In France, it was taking about 637 days for civil courts of first instance to resolve a pending case in 2020. According to the source, the European median was 237 days, or 400 days less. By comparison, the duration time in administrative courts of first instance was about 333 days.
In the same year, the clearance rate in administrative courts of first instance was 95.2 percent, which means that the court resolved fewer cases than the number that had been referred to it.

Length of time needed to dispose of the stock of cases pending in civil, criminal and administrative courts in France in 2020, by instance (in number of days)

Characteristic	Supreme Court	2nd instance	1st instance
-	-	-	-
-	-	-	-
-	-	-	-

Download

Source

Show detailed source information?

Already a member?

Source

Use Ask Statista Research Service

Release date

September 2022

More information

Region

France

Survey time period

2020

Supplementary notes

The source adds the following information: "The duration time measures the theoretical time needed for a pending case to be resolved in court, taking into account the current workload of the courts."

Citation formats