Madras High Court records its highest case clearance rate in last five years

The Madras High Court in 2022 recorded its highest ever Case Clearance Rate (CCR) in the last five years. 114% of cases before it were disposed of last year..As per data published on the High Court website, 1,61,810 cases were instituted before the Court's principal seat in Chennai and its Madurai Bench between January 1, 2022 and December 31, 2022. Both benches of the High Court together disposed of 1,85,203 cases during the same period. This means that the Court cleared a lot of the backlog of older pending cases and disposed of a significant percentage of fresh matters as well during this time..Civil cases, particularly writ petitions, constituted the bulk of the new cases instituted at both the principal bench and the Madurai bench last year. At the principal bench in Chennai, 54,715 civil cases, of which 35,368 were writ petitions, were instituted, and 71,144 cases were disposed of. At the Madurai bench, 38,327 new civil cases, of which 29,317 were writ petitions were instituted between January and December 2022, and 45,548 civil cases were disposed of during such period.During the same period, 41,084 criminal cases were instituted at the principal bench, and 40,943 were disposed of. And at the Madurai bench, 66,011 new criminal cases were instituted and 73,116 criminal cases were disposed of between January 1 and December 31, 2022..The Madras High Court had registered a CCR of 106.21% in 2018; 112.77% in 2019; 103.23% in 2020; and 109% in 2021. .As per the data, the district judiciary recorded a CCR of 94% for the year 2022.A total of 8,63,518 cases were instituted in district courts across Tamil Nadu between January 1, 2022 and December 31, 2022. 8,06,905 cases were disposed of during this period..[Read Notification]