Supreme Court case information
Listed below are the substantive Supreme Court cases for the year along with appeals still to be determined or cases awaiting hearing.
Information giving an overview of the case is included along with media releases and links to judgments being appealed when available.
All 2024 - 2014 Supreme Court cases dismissed or deemed to be dismissed where a notice of abandonment was received can be found here.
Transcripts for cases heard before the Supreme Court are included provided they are not suppressed. Transcripts from pre-trial hearings are not published until the final disposition of trial. These are unedited transcripts and they are not a formal record of the Court’s proceedings. The Ministry of Justice does not accept responsibility for the accuracy or completeness of any material and recommends that users exercise their own skill and care with respect to its use.
23 December 2024
Case information summary 2024 (as at 23 December 2024) – Cases where leave granted (126 KB)
Case information summary 2024 (as at 23 December 2024) – Cases where leave to appeal decision not yet made (PDF, 116 KB)
All years
9 December 2019
B There is no order as to costs.
9 December 2019
B There is no order as to costs
18 November 2019
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A The application for recall is allowed only to make the corrections identified at [6] in [2019] NZSC 154.
B The judgment of this Court of 18 November 2019 (Reekie v Claimants A & B [2019] NZSC 127) is reissued with these corrections.
23 December 2019
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A The application for leave to appeal is dismissed.
B There is no order as to costs.
Reissued 23 December 2019
B The applicant must pay costs of $4,500 plus usual disbursements to the respondents collectively.
13 December 2019
B The applicant must pay costs of $2,500 to the respondent.
22 November 2019
A The application for recall of this Court’s judgment of 22 November 2019 (Prescott v New Zealand Police [2019] NZSC 133) is dismissed.
B There is no order as to costs.
5 March 2021
B The Supreme Court of New Zealand is removed as a proposed party from this proceeding.
C Mr Rabson is to pay costs of $250 to the Crown Law Office.
18 November 2019
B Costs of $2,500 are awarded to the respondent.
19 November 2019
B The approved question is whether the Court of Appeal was in error in setting aside the declarations made at [86] of the judgment of the High Court (Rangitira Developments Ltd v Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society Ltd [2018] NZHC 146, (2018) 20 ELRNZ 312).
C There is no order as to costs.
5 November 2019
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A The appeal is dismissed.
B The appellant must pay the respondent costs of $25,000 plus usual disbursements.
15 July 2020
- Hearing date 19 May 2020 (PDF, 450 KB)
- MR [2020] NZSC 66 (PDF, 125 KB)
19 May 2020
Winkelmann CJ, William Young, Glazebrook, O'Regan and Ellen France JJ
B There is no order as to costs.
6 December 2019
B Leave to appeal is granted (Regan v Brougham [2019] NZCA 401).
C The approved ground is whether the Court of Appeal was right to allow the appeal to that Court.
12 December 2019
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A The appeal is allowed.
B The orders made in the Court of Appeal are set aside and judgment is entered for the appellant.
C The respondents must pay the appellant costs of $25,000 plus usual disbursements.
D The award of costs and disbursements in the lower Courts in favour of the first respondents is set aside. Such costs and disbursements should be reassessed by the Court of Appeal in light of this judgment. The award of costs in favour of the second respondent stands.
E The first respondents’ interlocutory application to adduce further evidence is dismissed. 30 October 2020
- Hearing date 9 June 2020 (PDF, 409 KB)
- MR [2020] NZSC 118 (PDF, 189 KB)