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Appendix table 1. Civil cases concluded, received and carried forward at district courts by case group in 2013

Case groups	Cases concluded total	change from the previous year, %	Cases carried forward from the previous year	change from the previous year, %	Cases received in 2013	change from the previous year, %	Cases carried over to the following year	change from the previous year, %
CIVIL CASES, TOTAL	491 727	4,9	117 308	30,9	447 253	-4,9	72 834	-20,1
CIVIL MATTERS	441 695	4,5	95 948	38,0	400 507	-5,9	54 760	-24,2
Family law	1 680	5,5	705	7,0	1 653	4,6	678	4,8
Guardianship and trusteeship	3	200,0	2	.	1	-66,7	-	-200,0
Inheritance and wills	214	7,5	210	22,8	185	-20,9	181	-12,1
Real estate	1 198	2,1	543	9,9	1 129	-2,5	474	-1,0
Tenancy cases	25 510	4,2	4 436	14,3	23 473	-0,8	2 399	-21,9
Personal property	43 273	-6,7	9 792	61,2	37 779	-20,6	4 298	-40,7
— of which indebtedness based on sale of personal property	41 631	-6,8	9 191	68,5	36 297	-21,0	3 857	-42,7
Incorporeal rights	94	-43,4	90	-9,1	77	-50,3	73	-17,0
Indebtedness and receivables	298 850	10,8	59 127	46,1	274 447	0,6	34 724	-20,4
— of which other claim based on indebtedness	293 294	11,2	57 655	46,9	269 490	0,9	33 851	-20,3
Service contracts, commissions, agreements regarding the product of work	63 214	-13,1	15 370	27,0	55 637	-23,0	7 793	-33,1
— of which indebtedness based on other service contracts, commissions, agreements regarding the product of work	61 623	-13,1	13 896	31,3	54 069	-23,4	6 342	-38,1
Maritime law	9	-64,0	41	-18,0	11	-38,9	43	0,0
Insurance agreements	133	-1,5	174	-3,3	100	-23,1	141	-19,4
Right of recourse of the insurer	374	-11,8	119	20,2	305	-26,5	50	-44,4
Responsibility for compensation outside contract	2 386	80,0	3 248	1,5	1 313	14,1	2 175	-28,4
— of which civil (law) cases based on the Damages Act	784	-4,6	674	1,7	1 060	33,0	950	48,9
— of which compensation liability based on a crime	1 489	227,3	1 706	-4,5	207	13,7	424	-72,0
Societies and foundations	1 856	15,1	636	8,9	1 774	12,0	554	-0,4
Title to personal property under distraint	-	-100,0	-	0,0	-	-100,0	-	0,0
Bankruptcy and composition	348	21,7	336	10,2	295	1,4	283	-8,7
Debt rearrangement and company restructuring procedure	13	18,2	6	-40,0	13	85,7	6	0,0
Security measures, evictions, executive assistance	1 303	-3,5	262	9,6	1 180	-10,3	139	-32,2
Other civil suit	679	-5,4	506	-4,0	587	-16,1	414	-18,7
Land rights matters	558	0,5	345	-6,0	548	7,5	335	4,0
PETITIONARY MATTERS	50 032	8,2	21 360	6,2	46 746	3,8	18 074	-4,3
Child legislation	3 195	12,6	1 481	18,6	2 936	-0,5	1 222	-10,3
— of which decision regarding custody of child and visiting rights	1 413	18,1	798	23,5	1 261	-2,4	646	-12,9
— of which amendment of decision regarding custody of child	1 081	5,6	441	12,8	1 003	-2,4	363	-8,1
— of which change of decision regarding visiting rights	373	24,3	214	19,6	358	7,8	199	-5,7
Marriage law and cohabiting partnership	18 681	2,0	12 062	1,9	17 060	-3,2	10 441	-6,3
— of which divorce (no ancillary claims)	17 158	3,4	11 171	2,7	15 821	-2,0	9 834	-5,7
— of which divorce (with ancillary claims)	1 055	-4,3	806	-2,2	814	-13,1	565	-14,3
Guardianship cases	9 442	10,2	1 089	42,0	8 906	6,2	553	-6,0
— of which appointment of a representative of interests because of declined state of health	6 048	4,0	570	20,0	5 737	0,9	259	-26,0
Inheritance and wills	1 761	8,5	353	23,0	1 669	5,3	261	4,8
Debt rearrangement procedure of a private person	4 813	5,7	2 306	8,4	4 348	-2,0	1 841	-8,4
Restructuring of companies	669	11,3	411	28,4	640	11,5	382	30,4
Other non-contentious civil claims	6 243	31,9	905	7,2	6 205	35,7	867	27,3
Bankruptcies	3 386	3,6	2 147	2,4	3 286	1,6	2 047	-0,8
Enforcement of decisions	540	11,1	158	0,6	500	9,4	118	-7,8
Distraint	1 176	2,9	370	6,6	1 070	-2,1	264	-11,1
Applications regarding registered partnership	126	0,8	78	-1,3	126	9,6	78	13,0

Source: Justice Statistics, Statistics Finland

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Updated 2.4.2014