23-6  Basic Statistics on Lawyers, Notarization and Mediation
   
Item 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003
           
  Lawyers                                                                                               
  Number of Law Offices                 (unit) 9144 9541 10225 10873 11593
  Number of Lawyers                   (person) 111433 117260 122585 136684 142534
      Full-time Lawyers                 (person) 61761 69117 76558 90012 99793
      Part-time Lawyers                (person) 17082 15639 13699 12186 6850
  Number of Units with Permanent             
    Legal Advisors                            (unit)                 238576 247160 254758 265362 271669
  Agent of Civil Cases                     (case) 592455 640610 667232 767628 781452
  Agent of Economic Cases             (case) 426358 438672 402669 381146 405133
  Defender of Criminal Cases           (case) 309767 317108 339549 335267 324454
  Agent of Administrative Action    (case) 39006 41785 43800 43703 48115
  Agent of Non-Litigious Legal  Affairs 716287 770087 1162715 827057 876696
                                                        (case)
  Agent of Foreign-related, Hong Kong,  18793 30531 10609 26788 20622
    Macao & Taiwan Legal Affairs    (case)
  Agent of Legal Advisory Services      419.20 457.40 403.40 487.41 430.25
                                            (10 000 cases)
  Agent of Legal Documents Written on   96.64 111.30 113.90 119.70 120.27
    Behalf of Clients              (10 000 cases)
  Notarization                         
  Number of Notary Offices             (unit)         3189 3189 3186 3157 3175
  Notarial Personnel                     (person) 18654 19211 19303 19460 20015
      Notaries                                 (person) 13083 12849 12931 12245 12093
      Assistant Notaries                   (person) 1584 2103 1995 2556 3018
  Number of Notarized Documents         1644.6 1249.7 1007.2 1004.5 1010.4
                                             (10 000 cases)
  Number of People's Mediation         
  Number of Full-time Judicial Assistants          54987 54638 48682 47173 46088
                                                     (person)
  Number of People's Mediation Committees 97.41 96.4 92.3 89.1 87.8
                                              (10 000 units)
  Number of Mediators       (10 000 persons) 880.25 844.5 779.3 716.2 669.2
  Number of Civil Disputes Mediated     518.86 503.1 486.1 314.1 449.2
                                              (10 000 cases)