Case Management

CASE MANAGEMENT

Baseline 2024
2026
2028
2030
% pending cases versus new cases - High Court (Criminal)
174%
150%
75%
0%
% pending cases versus new cases - District Court
347%
325%
150%
0%
% pending cases versus new cases - Magistrates Court
74%
50%
25%
0%
% districts with justice coordination / case management committees
0
3
15
25
Inflow: % simple & minor cases entering the justice system reduced (eg by police diversion, court referral to ADR etc)
Police: 4% Magistrates Courts: 1%
5%
15%
30%
% increase in police charging s78 Drugs Ordinance where appropriate
No data
10%
25%
50%
Outflow: % increase case clearance (eg by identifying deadwood cases, referral to Court-Annexed Mediation, early case review, reduction in case adjournments, incentivising guilty pleas etc)
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# provinces with dedicated child justice magistrates courts
2
5
7
9
Pilot public defenders in Colombo courts
0
Pilot
Evaluation: stop or roll out to other high volume centres
x provinces
Pilot DPP in Colombo Courts
0
Pilot
Evaluation: stop or roll out
x provinces
Pilot Court Annexed Mediation (CAM) in Colombo courts
0
Pilot
Evaluation: stop or roll out
x provinces
% prisons with accredited Legal Aid Providers (LAPs) linking unrepresented unsentenced persons to their families, a lawyer, the court
0
Pilot
Evaluation: stop or roll out
x prisons

PRISON CONFINEMENT

Baseline 2024
2026
2028
2030
% unsentenced to sentenced prisoners
67%
50%
40%
25%
% unsentenced women prisoners
5%
5%
4%
2%
% persons admitted to prison screened (as to health (including mental health), access to legal aid, security status and sentencing plan)
0
50%
75%
100%
% sentenced prisoners released on licence, work release, home leave
5%
10%
15%
20%
% sentenced prisoners participating in vocational and rehabilitation programs by expanding workshops in each facility, providing horticulture tools to supplement rations, aligning prison labour with fair remuneration reforms and skills certification, and partnering with NGOs and community-based service providers to augment in-house prison capacity
No data
10%
25%
50%
% prisons reporting most common ailment as 'skin conditions' (scabies etc) reduced
30%
20%
10%
0%

CASE OUTCOMES

Baseline 2024
2026
2028
2030
% of unsentenced prisoners granted bail earlier
64% within 6 months
64% within 4 months
64% within 2 months
64% within 1 week
% of persons convicted of minor offences sentenced to non-custodial alternatives
95% convicted prisoners sentenced to 2 years or less
85%
50%
25%
% of drug users sent to rehabilitation centres, or other treatment
4%
10%
25%
75%
% young persons under 18 diverted to community-based rehabilitation programmes
at police: No data / at court: No data
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at police: 80% / at court: 80%
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