21-27  Basic Statistics on Lawyers, Notarization and Mediation

Item

1996

1997

1998

1999

 

 

 

 

 

Lawyers

          

          

           

           

Number of Law Offices

8265

8441

8946

9144

Number of Lawyers           (persons)

100198

98902

101220

111433

Full-time Lawyers         (persons)

47879

47574

51008

61761

Part-time Lawyers         (persons)

20243

18695

17958

17082

Number of Units with Permanent

          

           

           

 

Legal Advisors

223043

232434

235676

238576

Agent of Civil Cases          (cases)

353840

454273

526633

592455

Agent of Economic Cases       (cases)

360224

403337

414229

426358

Defender of Criminal Cases    (cases)

245877

275188

296668

309767

Agent of Administrative Action(cases)

19360

29618

35865

39006

Agent of Non-Litigious Legal  Affairs

435483

1222239

851433

716287

(cases)

          

           

           

 

Agent of Foreign-related, Hong Kong,

27730

24765

21618

18793

Macao & Taiwan Legal Affairs (cases)

          

           

           

 

Agent of Legal Advisory Services

186.5

425.9

489.9

419.2

(10 000 cases)

          

           

           

 

Agent of Legal Documents Written on

52.3

95.9

125.9

96.6

Behalf of Clients     (10 000 cases)

          

           

           

 

Notarization

           

           

           

 

Number of Notary Offices

3167

3162

3179

3189

Notarial Personnel          (persons)

17019

17431

18159

18654

Notaries                  (persons)

11322

11749

13006

13083

Assistant Notaries        (persons)

1925

1741

1428

1584

Number of Notarized Documents

792.7

982.8

1022.9

1644.6

(10 000 cases)

           

           

           

 

Number of People's Mediation

          

           

           

 

Number of Full-Time Judicial

56173

57029

52875

54987

Assistants                 (persons)

          

           

           

 

Number of People's Mediation Commit-

100.2

98.5

98.4

97.4

tees                  (10 000 units)

          

           

            

 

Number of Mediators  (10 000 persons)

1035.4

1027.4

917.5

880.3

Number of Civil Disputes Mediated

580.2

554.3

526.7

518.9

(10 000 cases)