The Nepali Judiciary - Supreme Court Of Nepal

Particulars
TABLE: 15
Case Disposal Rate Per Judges
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Supreme
Court
Average of Four Years
Appellate Courts
District
Courts
New Registration 5,696 10,853 32,836
New case per Judge 271 129 261
Total disposal 6,900 10,933 31,167
Number of disposal per Judge 327 100 130 101 248
Ratio of disposal in comparison to new registration 121 101 95
Total number including pending balance 21,144 20,534 61,945
Number of cases per judge in comparison to total cases 933 254 494
Average disposal of five Judges disposing majority of cases 482 102 290 103 510
The above table shows that in comparison to new registration, the Supreme Court has been
capable of disposing additional 21% of the cases. In comparison to new registration although it can
be observed that all the Appellate Courts have been able to dispose 81.8% of the cases in the
fourth year, it can be drawn that the courts have been capable in disposing an average of 10.1% of
the cases only. With regards to the District Court, the District Courts have been able to dispose
79.3% and 89.4% of the case in comparison to new registration during the second and fourth year
which is very low whereas during the first and third year the District Court has been able to dispose
106.2% and 104.1% which is higher than the rate of registration and in general the court has been
able to dispose 95% of the case in comparison to its new registration.
From above it can be drawn that under the current infrastructure and environment, the Supreme
Court, Appellate Court and the District Courts are competent in disposing cases with regards to
new registration and this is evident from the data available. For example, for the past four years
the rate of disposal per judge for all the judges of the Supreme Court was 341, 327, 287 and 311.
In other words the average disposal was 327, whereas the highest average disposal rate during
those years by five judges reads as 482 cases per judge. From this data it is evident that under the
current infrastructure provided all the benches were to dispose the cases equivalent to the average
number of cases disposed by the five judges, the pending balance of cases could be reduced by
two third.
Likewise, the Appellate Courts have been successful in disposing cases in comparison to new
registration.
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Number of disposal of cases by judge of the Supreme Court and Appellate Court has been based on Division Bench,
this number is two times greater than the number based on a single judge
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