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.
24 June 2024
Case information summary 2024 (as at 21 June 2024) – Cases where leave granted (121 KB)
Case information summary 2024 (as at 21 June 2024) – Cases where leave to appeal decision not yet made (PDF, 125 KB)
All years
17 June 2020
B Leave is reserved to renew the application in the circumstances set out below at [5].
[5] The application for leave to appeal is accordingly dismissed but without prejudice to the ability to file another application for leave to appeal to this Court if the recall application is dismissed by the Court of Appeal.
4 November 2019
B The first applicant must pay the respondent costs of $2,500. Given the position at [2], we make no costs award against the second applicant.
11 October 2019
B The applicant must pay costs of $2,500 to the second respondents.
15 November 2019
17 October 2019
B Order prohibiting publication of the judgment and any part of the proceedings (including the result) in news media or on the internet or other publicly available database until final disposition of the trial. Publication in a law report or law digest permitted.
23 October 2019
9 December 2019
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