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APPENDIX 6.

DUBLIN CIRCUIT COURT.

(Statistics Furnished by Mr. Seamus O’Connor, County Registrar.)

(a) Civil Actions, defended and undefended, during the years 1928 and 1929 where the amounts sued for exceeded £50.

		Decrees where amount recovered was:—					Dismiss where amount sued for was:—
Year	Actions Entered	Over £50 and up to £100	Over £100 and up to £150	Over £150 and up to £200	Over £200 and up to £250	Over £250 and up to £300	Over £50 and up to £100	Over £100 and up to £150	Over £150 and up to £200	Over £200 and up to £250	Over £250 and up to £300
1928	382	105	23	16	3	4	32	16	4	1	24
1929	411	77	37	12	6	3	69	20	2	1	32

									Year	Tort	Contract	Total
(b) Civil actions, defended and undefended, within the jurisdiction of the District Court entered
for hearing at the Circuit Court	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	1928	8	390	398
do. do.do.do.								..	1929	6	391	397

											Suits where subject matter
										Year	did not exceed £500	exceeded £500
(c) Equity Suits entered for hearing	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	1928	33	4
do.do.do.	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	1929	50	9
										Year	No. of Cases
(d) Probate Cases heard	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	1928	2
do.		..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	1929	5
										Year	No. of Bills
(e) No. of Bills of Costs taxed by the County Registrar in actions where amounts sued for
exceeded £50	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	1928	66
do.do.do.do.								..	..	1929	177
										Year	No. of Appeals
(f) Appeals to the High Court	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	1928	62
do. do.	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	1929	68
										Year	No. of Appeals
(g) Appeals from District Court to Circuit Court			..	..	..	..	..	..	..	1928	130
do.do.do.			..	..	..	..	..	..	..	1929	115

(h) Number of days on which the Circuit Judges sat during the period of three Court years ending July, 1929.

Court Year ending:		Judge Davitt		Judge Pigot		Judge Roche		Judge Shannon		Judge Gleeson		Total Number of days for the year for all Judges		Total
Court Year ending:		Civil	Criminal	Civil	Criminal	Civil	Criminal	Civil	Criminal	Civil	Criminal	Civil	Criminal	Total
July 1927		149	25	13	—	104	27	—	—	—	—	266	52	318
July, 1928		149	29	—	—	67	26	—	—	—	—	216	55	271
July, 1929		119	60	—	—	8	—	130	—	83	11	340	71	411
Totals	..	417	114	13	—	179	53	130	—	83	11	822	178	1,000

		Year	No. of Judges	No. of Days Judges sat	Cases awaiting hearing
(hh) No. of days on which the Circuit Court Judges sat for Civil business		1926	2	268	198
and No. of Civil Cases awaiting hearing at the end of each year	..	1926	2	268	198
do.do.do.	..	1927	3	266	261
do.do.do.	..	1928	2	216	732
do.do.do.	..	1929	4	340	452

						Year	Ejectments Entered	Cases within District Court Jurisdiction	Cases within County Court Jurisdiction	Transferred Jurisdiction Cases
									Approx.	Approx.
(i) No. of Ejectments entered or hearing		..	..	..	..	1927	627	100	346	181
do.do.	..	..	..	..	..	1928	589	86	344	159
do.do.	..	..	..	..	..	1929	552	50	346	156