Singapore, trust
Singapore Courts' case-clearance discipline
Singapore's State Courts disposed of 21,816 civil cases against 20,358 filings in 2023, a 107% civil clearance rate; its Community Justice and Tribunals courts recorded a 99% clearance rate in the same year.
107 % of incoming civil cases, state courts civil-case clearance rate, 2023. 99 % of incoming cases, community justice and tribunals clearance rate, 2023. Singapore Judiciary, Caseload statistics 2023, retrieved 2026-08-31.
The move, and what it needed
Singapore Courts publish workload by court and case type, set clearance as a management measure and combine procedural reform with specialised tribunals and dispute-resolution pathways. The public series makes backlogs visible while the court system can shift suitable disputes into faster channels without pretending that every case is the same.
Preconditions
- A judiciary with reliable case-management data and authority to redesign procedure across court tiers
- Registries, judges, mediators and tribunals that can route cases by complexity rather than use one queue for all disputes
- A public accountability norm that treats unresolved caseload as an operational problem while protecting judicial independence
Where else it has been used: Court-clearance management travels when administrative data, triage and dispute resolution reduce stock without turning speed into the only definition of justice.
Limits: Clearance is disposals divided by filings in the same year, so it can exceed 100% when courts work through earlier stock; it does not show timeliness, fairness, legal-aid access, enforcement or the quality of decisions. The Singapore figures cover court workloads and are not a comparable cross-country civil-justice index without harmonised case definitions.
This record describes what Singapore delivered. It is linked to Court case clearance rate because no comparable dataset measures that capability. It does not affect the score or confidence.
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The same indicator elsewhere
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