Most of the cases submitted last year to local courts had to do with family matters, the Judicial Administration Department has said.

The department’s records, published at the end of December, revealed that 46 percent of all cases filed at local courts in that period was done so at the Family Court.

The breakdown of said records further show that 28 percent were civil matters while just 26 percent accounted for criminal cases.

The records also show that the total number of cases filed in 2017, compared to the year before that, had been three percent more, an access of reportedly 20,000 individual cases.

A record-breaking amount of cases had been filed in 2016, the first year ever to have had such an immense amount, with a total of 8,951.