The MoJ have published the tribunal statistics for October to December 2015. The key figures are as follows: 

• The number of single claims received was 4,338 – an increase of 3 cases on the same period of 2014. 
• The number of multiple claims received was 13,546, down by 7% on the same quarter last year. 
• There were 5,300 issue fee remissions requested, of which 3,500 (66%) cases had the full issue fee paid outright and 1,400 (25%) cases were awarded either a full or partial issue fee remission.
• A total of 3,495 hearing fee remissions were requested of which 754 (22%) requests had the full hearing fee paid outright and 547 (16%) were awarded either a full or partial remission.

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