| 23-6 Basic Statistics on Lawyers, Notarization and Mediation | ||||||
| Item | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 |
| Lawyers | ||||||
| Number of Law Offices (unit) | 10225 | 10873 | 11593 | 11823 | 12988 | 13096 |
| Number of Lawyers (person) | 122585 | 136684 | 142534 | 145196 | 153846 | 164516 |
| Full-time Lawyers (person) | 76558 | 90012 | 99793 | 100875 | 114471 | 122242 |
| Part-time Lawyers (person) | 13699 | 12186 | 6850 | 6966 | 7418 | 8068 |
| Number of Units with Permanent | ||||||
| Legal Advisors (unit) | 254758 | 265362 | 271669 | 282361 | 276097 | 279573 |
| Agent of Civil Cases (case) | 667232 | 767628 | 781452 | 853897 | 965956 | 1027117 |
| Agent of Economic Cases (case) | 402669 | 381146 | 405133 | 357326 | 376793 | 377999 |
| Defender of Criminal Cases (case) | 339549 | 335267 | 324454 | 332688 | 354229 | 341619 |
| Agent of Administrative Action (case) | 43800 | 43703 | 48115 | 50778 | 50389 | 56657 |
| Agent of Non-Litigious Legal Affairs (case) | 1162715 | 827057 | 876696 | 904516 | 933346 | 915482 |
| Agent of Foreign-related, Hong Kong, | 10609 | 26788 | 20622 | 37728 | 36361 | 10700 |
| Macao & Taiwan Legal Affairs (case) | ||||||
| Agent of Legal Advisory Services | 403.40 | 487.41 | 430.25 | 471.05 | 441.48 | 520.13 |
| (10 000 cases) | ||||||
| Agent of Legal Documents Written on | 113.90 | 119.70 | 120.27 | 123.16 | 120.07 | 145.32 |
| Behalf of Clients (10 000 cases) | ||||||
| Notarization | ||||||
| Number of Notary Offices (unit) | 3186 | 3157 | 3175 | 3164 | 3160 | 3082 |
| Notarial Personnel (person) | 19303 | 19460 | 20015 | 19913 | 20789 | 31123 |
| Notaries (person) | 12931 | 12245 | 12093 | 11714 | 11738 | 21362 |
| Assistant Notaries (person) | 1995 | 2556 | 3018 | 3644 | 4138 | 4709 |
| Number of Notarized Documents | 1007.2 | 1004.5 | 1010.4 | 1021.9 | 945.2 | 980.7 |
| (10 000 cases) | ||||||
| Number of People's Mediation | ||||||
| Number of Full-time Judicial Assistants | 48682 | 47173 | 46088 | 63438 | 61666 | 62573 |
| (person) | ||||||
| Number of People's Mediation Committees | 92.3 | 89.1 | 87.8 | 85.3 | 84.7 | 84.3 |
| (10 000 units) | ||||||
| Number of Mediators (10 000 persons) | 779.3 | 716.2 | 669.2 | 514.4 | 509.7 | 498.2 |
| Number of Civil Disputes Mediated | 486.1 | 314.1 | 449.2 | 441.4 | 448.7 | 462.8 |
| (10 000 cases) | ||||||