The number of mortgage cases received and disposed in the High Court. Datasets are produced on an annual year basis. The dataset is entered onto ICOS, the Integrated Courts Operations System. The data are then extracted and merged with the Central Postcode Directory, and aggregated information uploaded to this portal.
Northern Ireland Courts and Tribunals Service collects information on writs and originating summonses issued in respect of mortgages in Chancery Division of the Northern Ireland High Court. This covers both Northern Ireland Housing Executive and private mortgages, and relates to both domestic and commercial properties.
A mortgage case may involve more than one address or a land property. In such cases, the first postcode address entered onto ICOS is used. Not all writs and originating summonses lead to eviction. A plaintiff begins an action for an order for possession of property. The court, following a judicial hearing, may grant an order for possession. This entitles the plaintiff to apply for an order to have the defendant evicted. However, even where an order for eviction is issued the parties can still negotiate a compromise to prevent eviction.
Users of this data may have been able to self-identify themselves due to the low values in some cells. Primary and secondary disclosure control methods have been applied to this data, denoted by cells with missing data in the tables. Values of less than four participants, but not zero participants, were initially suppressed, but some of these values could have been calculated using some row and column totals and thus secondary suppression was applied to the next lowest value in the row and column.
The data contain the number of cases received and the number of cases disposed by each Local Government District and have the following proportions of postcode coverage: 2012, 97.2%; 2013, 95.9%; 2014, 96.0%; 2015, 94.5%; 2016, 95.4%; 2017, 95.2%; 2018, 94.5%; 2019, 95.5%; 2020, 96.7%; 2021, 95.7%; 2022, 95.6%; 2023, 95.2%; 2024, 95.8%.