British Columbia Court Case Filings Over Five Fiscal Years

Fiscal year datasets report the total number of new court cases initiated in courthouses across British Columbia. The data is provided by the Government of British Columbia and was last updated in April 2026. New court cases generally refer to filings that initiate a case, including files transferred from another registry.

Use Cases

• Analyze trends in new case filings over time based on the five-year report structure
• Compare court activity across different locations and court levels mentioned in the description
• Model fiscal year caseloads for resource planning based on the date a case is opened

Strengths

• Data is reported over a five-year period, allowing for trend analysis
• Provides location-specific reporting for courthouses across British Columbia
• Uses a standardized fiscal year basis for temporal consistency

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment

Provenance

Source

Government of British Columbia

Collection Method

Administrative reporting from court registries

Time Range

Five fiscal years

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-17 15:27:18.419895; freshness should be verified

Geography

British Columbia, Canada