<\/span>Two Limits On The Figure<\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\nTwo limits on that figure are worth stating plainly. It is a floor, since it counts only matters where such activity was recorded in the orders captured, and will understate any matter resolved without a recorded order.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And it describes the criminal docket as a whole rather than NDPS matters specifically \u2014 offence-level proportions warrant particular caution here, because the Supreme Court revised its own case-categorisation scheme with effect from 21 April 2025, so any series spanning that date is not measuring a constant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For NDPS research specifically, the more reliable approach remains to identify comparable matters and read their orders directly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n