Annual report [1997-98] - Family Court of Australia

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Table 4.5: Court statistics July 1997 to June 1998 – Percentage changes from 1996-97 NORTHERN SOUTHERN FCA FCWA AUST BR DN NC PA SY TV AD CA DG HB ML FILES OPENED The Family Court of Australia – annual report 1997-98 Ex-nuptial Files Opened 6 4 17 23 8 14 6 -9 13 -4 -7 6 -7 4 Total Files Opened -0 4 -3 2 3 1 -4 -5 2 -3 0 0 -1 -0 DIVORCES AND NULLITIES Forms 4 Filed - Application for Divorce 5 -3 -8 -2 1 -1 -8 -7 -1 -3 -0 -1 -1 -1 Remissions of Fees -6 -46 -21 -22 -22 -4 -24 -12 -21 -21 -13 -16 -13 -16 Applicants in Person 8 0 -7 -4 1 6 -8 -5 -2 -3 -0 -0 -3 -1 Divorces Granted - Decree Nisi -4 -14 -8 -17 -3 -2 -6 -10 -7 -6 -10 -8 2 -7 Nullities Granted - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ANCILLARY APPLICATIONS Forms 7 Filed in Ex-nuptial Files 8 3 -3 36 21 -7 26 -2 26 -9 4 12 -1 11 Total Forms 7 Filed - Final Orders 0 10 -2 11 5 -4 13 -10 7 -23 2 2 -2 2 Forms 7A Filed - Response to Form 7 3 10 11 15 -2 10 12 6 23 -25 2 5 3 5 Forms 7B Filed - Reply to Form 7A 22 - 39 39 -6 - 0 - - - -20 9 13 9 Forms 8 Filed in Ex-nuptial Files 11 39 2 38 3 -26 4 -2 32 -16 15 11 2 10 Total Forms 8 Filed - Interim/Procedural Orders 5 40 7 5 -5 -1 -3 -6 23 -14 7 4 9 4 Forms 12 Filed - Maintenance -35 -33 -28 -26 -41 -32 -18 -19 -26 -50 -36 -32 -23 -30 Forms 26A Filed in Ex-nuptial Files -50 - 55 - - - -50 - - - - -32 - -32 Total Forms 26A Filed - Parenting Plan -32 - 19 - -19 -35 -56 - -13 - -46 -34 - -35 Forms 43 Filed - Notice of Appeal (O32r22) -24 - -23 -7 13 - - - - - 11 -8 9 -4 Transfers from Other Courts 25 21 5 13 46 19 -48 -14 -30 - -14 2 5 2 - Percentage changes are not displayed where numbers are inadequate for comparative purposes. Note: Numbers of files opened published in 1996-97 were inflat - ed by 7161 due to a backcapture of files in Darwin associated with the implementation of Blackstone. hen calculating These have the been percentage excluded w changes between 1996-97 and 1997-98. Figures for Launceston are now included in the Hobart Registry figures. 71
The Family Court of Australia – annual report 1997-98 Table 4.6A: Court counselling statistics July 1997 to June 1998 NORTHERN SOUTHERN FCA FCWA AUST AS BR CH CS DN DU GC LS NC PA RK SY TV WL AD AL CA DG HB LN ML New Interventions Opened Number of New Interventions Opened in each category Voluntary privileged counselling - in person* 56 443 205 409 215 318 531 492 805 456 134 487 263 209 845 448 863 558 590 525 Court-ordered privileged counselling before FDH 19 1035 24 70 144 17 120 90 338 895 75 268 145 51 546 107 215 339 193 213 Court-ordered privileged counselling after FDH 13 736 85 45 126 111 48 141 469 940 34 932 65 162 1053 107 22 667 115 198 Access enforcement counselling 0 140 0 4 3 3 2 4 3 27 0 18 4 4 9 1 4 86 6 1 Joint conferencing 0 4 0 0 2 3 0 5 23 48 0 15 18 1 4 0 2 21 32 16 Reports 4 93 20 22 20 41 15 23 73 217 13 182 22 48 108 39 84 107 32 37 Reports allocated to welfare officers 0 0 0 3 3 12 1 8 18 43 0 31 3 0 5 0 2 11 1 2 Total new interventions opened 92 2451 334 553 513 505 717 763 1729 2626 256 1933 520 475 2570 702 1192 1789 969 992 Telephone Counselling* 22 1388 97 604 109 452 72 96 902 187 166 648 321 75 4365 961 1005 717 349 190 1335 10187 743 10930 258 5162 839 6001 1432 7501 664 8165 152 471 72 543 45 239 1 240 368 1568 216 1784 19 162 0 162 3609 25290 2535 27825 1360 14086 3986 18072 Percentage of new interventions opened in each category Voluntary privileged counselling - in person* 60.9 18.1 61.4 74.0 41.9 63.0 74.1 64.5 46.6 17.4 52.3 25.2 50.6 44.0 32.9 63.8 72.4 31.2 60.9 52.9 Court-ordered privileged counselling before FDH 20.7 42.2 7.2 12.7 28.1 3.4 16.7 11.8 19.5 34.1 29.3 13.9 27.9 10.7 21.2 15.2 18.0 18.9 19.9 21.5 Court-ordered privileged counselling after FDH 14.1 30.0 25.4 8.1 24.6 22.0 6.7 18.5 27.1 35.8 13.3 48.2 12.5 34.1 41.0 15.2 1.8 37.3 11.9 20.0 Access enforcement counselling 0.0 5.7 0.0 0.7 0.6 0.6 0.3 0.5 0.2 1.0 0.0 0.9 0.8 0.8 0.4 0.1 0.3 4.8 0.6 0.1 Joint conferencing 0.0 0.2 0.0 0.0 0.4 0.6 0.0 0.7 1.3 1.8 0.0 0.8 3.5 0.2 0.2 0.0 0.2 1.2 3.3 1.6 Reports 4.3 3.8 6.0 4.0 3.9 8.1 2.1 3.0 4.2 8.3 5.1 9.4 4.2 10.1 4.2 5.6 7.0 6.0 3.3 3.7 Reports allocated to welfare officers 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.5 0.6 2.4 0.1 1.0 1.0 1.6 0.0 1.6 0.6 0.0 0.2 0.0 0.2 0.6 0.1 0.2 Total new interventions opened 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 Number of Interviews Held Voluntary privileged counselling - in person* 103 757 462 841 353 491 1131 928 1639 796 251 1052 615 431 1450 650 1427 834 992 782 Court-ordered privileged counselling before FDH 42 1649 100 221 246 36 324 202 608 1355 126 567 452 146 884 204 331 422 276 370 Court-ordered privileged counselling after FDH 30 2657 427 266 271 254 298 446 921 1994 135 2519 640 541 1710 277 65 951 182 432 Access enforcement counselling 0 252 1 12 10 30 2 9 23 72 0 51 8 18 16 25 32 130 10 1 Joint conferencing 0 244 12 2 5 8 4 14 32 68 2 50 36 7 6 0 8 30 41 26 Reports 19 678 144 123 152 220 155 291 699 1901 28 1699 309 202 736 357 450 1078 201 224 Telephone Counselling* 64 3081 621 1517 284 671 1478 1472 1894 651 327 1431 971 203 6928 1564 1983 2192 1496 554 37.0 40.3 29.3 39.3 7.1 20.4 33.1 21.6 39.7 29.7 26.2 29.3 4.2 1.9 2.8 2.0 1.2 0.9 0.0 0.9 10.2 6.2 8.5 6.4 0.5 0.6 0.0 0.6 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 2290 18275 1208 19483 390 8951 1157 10108 3414 18430 1102 19532 277 979 109 1088 89 684 3 687 2693 12359 257 12616 4734 34116 5762 39878 Performance Indicators Voluntary privileged counselling (in person*) At least 50% of cases are voluntary yes no yes yes no yes yes yes no no yes no yes no no yes yes no yes yes Percentage 61 18 61 74 42 63 74 64 47 17 52 25 51 44 33 64 72 31 61 53 Direct client and client related work Counsellors 60% of Counsellor time in direct client contact: no no no no no no yes no no no no no no no no no no no no no Percentage of direct client contact 22 53 47 45 42 45 60 59 53 43 39 46 52 33 50 50 51 50 53 52 Percentage of client related work 34 28 25 20 35 39 20 27 28 37 40 36 26 31 35 22 22 31 24 32 Direct client and client related work Casework Supervisors 33-50% of CWS time in direct client contact - no yes no - yes yes yes - no - no - yes no yes - yes yes yes Percentage of direct client contact - 18 41 19 - 48 48 53 - 30 - 24 - 36 29 37 - 50 36 45 Percentage of client related work - 50 26 39 - 39 27 32 - 34 - 23 - 32 54 24 - 0 26 22 no no no no 37 40 29 39 no no no no 52 49 54 52 30 31 27 29 no no no no 17 25 19 22 48 26 37 31 * A new system for collecting Court Counselling statistics began 1 January 1996. Previously not all telephone counselling statistics were collected and those that were collected counted as Voluntary Privileged Counselling only if they were pre-arranged. The current system counts telephone intake -arranged assessments and crisis and pre telephone counselling and does not distinguish between these. Some of the interventions and interviews reported as Telephone Counselling would s V oluntary have been Privileged counted Counselling a before January 1996. 72
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