1 elb 0 FO RE MU NRUR NE 1D Serious Crimes Court branches Men Ramallah Bethlehem Hebron Nablus Tulkarm Jenin Qalqilya Jericho Total Women 492 114 272 247 75 73 62 22 1.357 4 0 5 5 2 3 2 1 22 Total 496 114 277 252 77 76 64 23 1.379 West Bank First Instance Courts Men 621 123 310 195 76 79 85 153 1.642 Women 23 4 6 3 0 0 4 4 44 Total 644 127 316 198 76 79 89 157 1.686 3. Judgments According to official data obtained through the High Judicial Council, during the monitoring period Courts in the West Bank issued a total of 1.413 judgments. Serious Crimes Court branches issued 632 while First Instance Courts passed 781 judgments. The data is displayed in Table 2. Table 2 NUMBER OF JUDGMENTS Ramallah Serious Crimes Court First Instance Courts 201 281 Bethlehem 65 57 Hebron 123 144 Nablus 126 123 Tulkarm 31 45 Jenin 41 51 Qalqilya 30 39 Jericho 15 41 Total 632 781 As displayed in Table 3 below, most cases in both First Instance and Serious Crimes Courts ended with convictions. The acquittal rate in trials by First Instance Courts was 15,5%, against an acquittal rate of 18,2% in judgments by Serious Crimes Court branches. The Serious Crimes Court concluded 22,6% of the total number of proceedings with a judgment declaring their incompetence, as a consequence of lawsuits erroneously brought to the Serious Crimes Court for crimes falling outside its jurisdiction ratione materiae, including, as already mentioned, theft cases which fall under the competence of First Instance Court. 16