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ANNUAL REPORT 2017 2 METROPOLITAN TRIBUNAL & OFFICE OF CANONICAL AFFAIRS I. THE JUDICIAL BRANCH (Metropolitan Tribunal) ADJUDICATION OF CASES The Tribunal continues to reduce the number of cases in the backlog that were introduced before 2015 to just one case. In regard to active pending cases, 96.6% of them have been accepted in 2016 and 2017. The volume of new cases introduced this year increased by 4.25% to 196 for cases for Declaration of Nullity, an additional 10 cases for the Dissolution of marriage through the Pauline Privilege and the Privilege of the Faith and one appeal in the Second Instance. We adjudicated 239 cases and closed and additional 11 through renunciation, abatement or the death of a party and 3 Privileges granted for a total of 253 cases closed. Petition for Nullity CASES ACCEPTED IN 2017 # Petition for Dissolution Ordinary Process 184 Briefer Process 5 Documentary Process 7 Second Instance Appeal 1 Pauline Privelege 6 Favor of the Faith 4 TOTAL 197 10 #
ANNUAL REPORT 2017 3 METROPOLITAN TRIBUNAL & OFFICE OF CANONICAL AFFAIRS Currently for cases accepted since 2015 the average time to adjudication is 1 year and 2 months.) As you can see in the charts provided the time to adjudicate cases is being reduced. This year the number of cases adjudicated under one year increased by 20% from 35 cases last year to 42 cases this year. We adjudicated 4 cases in the new Abbreviated Ordinary Process in an average of 5 months. [CHART 2]
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