Increases in all categories of criminal offences before the courts

All courts bar the High Court saw an increase in the number of cases coming before it

Cork courthouse on Washington Street. Picture: David Creedon / Anzenberger

The number of criminal offences coming before the courts increased at every level in 2019. 

The number of civil cases before the courts increased, but those cases resolved in the course of the year dropped; all courts bar the High Court saw an increase in the number of such cases coming before it. Cases in which one party was suing the other were most common, increasing by 7,000 to 135,208 last year.