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Upcoming cases - Supreme Court

                                        

As at 12 August 2019

Sittings of the Supreme Court are open to the public.

Upcoming fixtures are set out below:

AUGUST

SEPTEMBER

OCTOBER

NOVEMBER

 

August fixtures list (pdf, 131 KB)

September fixtures list (pdf, 127 KB)

 

AUGUST

19 August

Case  number              SC 38/2019  | SC 39/2019                                       case information
Case name                                

W (SC38/2019)
CWJ Stevenson

v

The Queen
A Markham

The Queen
A Markham

v

W (SC39/2019)
CWJ Stevenson

Criminal Appeal
Judges   Winkelmann CJ, Glazebrook, O'Regan, Ellen France and Williams  JJ

Case Summary

Grounds on which leave was granted

 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 law report or law digest permitted.

Supreme Court leave application            

Not publicly available

 

Court of Appeal decision

Not publicly available

High Court leave decision

Not publicly available

 

21 and 22 August

Case  number              SC 116/2018                                         case information
Case name                                

Lodge Real Estate Limited
LJ Taylor QC, MA Cavanaugh

Monarch Real Estate Limited
DH McLellan QC, MS Anderson

Brian King
DH McLellan QC, MS Anderson

Jeremy O’Rourke
LJ Taylor QC, MA Cavanaugh

v

Commerce Commission
JCL Dixon QC, LCA Farmer, DS Houghton                                                 

 

Civil Appeal
Judges   Winkelmann CJ, Glazebrook, O'Regan, Ellen France and Williams  JJ
Case Summary Civil Appeal – Commerce Act 1986, s 30 – Whether there must be a moral obligation for the purposes of price fixing – Whether there was an agreement to vendor fund – Whether the Court of Appeal erred in allowing the respondent’s appeal against the High Court’s decision.
Grounds on which leave was granted Leave to appeal is granted (Commerce Commission v Lodge Real Estate Ltd
[2018] NZCA 523) on the question whether the Court of Appeal should have
allowed the respondent’s appeal to that Court except as set out at C below.
C
To the extent the application for leave seeks to argue that the respondent
had not adequately pleaded and to appeal from the dismissal of the
applicants’ cross-appeal the application is dismissed.
Supreme Court leave application decision LODGE REAL ESTATE LIMITED v COMMERCE COMMISSION [2019] NZSC 28 [19 March 2019]
Court of Appeal decision COMMERCE COMMISSION v LODGE REAL ESTATE LIMITED [2018] NZCA 523 [23 November 2018]
High Court leave decision COMMERCE COMMISSION v LODGE REAL ESTATE LTD & ORS [2017] NZHC 1497 [2 November 2017]

 

27 August

Case  number              SC 95/2018                                               case summary                            
Case name                                

Mark Edward Lundy
J H M Eaton QC, J A Kincade, J Oliver-Hood

v

The Queen
P J Morgan QC and A Markham

 

Criminal Appeal
Judges   William Young , O'Regan, Williams, Arnold and Miller  JJ
Case Summary Criminal Appeal – Crimes Act 1961, s 385 – Whether the Court of Appeal erred in dismissing the applicant’s appeal against conviction under the proviso to s 385(1) despite finding that certain evidence presented at trial was inadmissible.
Grounds on which leave was granted The approved question is whether the Court of Appeal erred in applying the
proviso to s 385(1) of the Crimes Act 1961.
Supreme Court leave application decision MARK EDWARD LUNDY v R [2019] NZSC 45 [6 May 2019]
Court of Appeal decision LUNDY v R [2018] NZCA 410 [9 October 2018]

 

SEPTEMBER

25 September

Case  number    SC 41/2019
Case name                      New Zealand Law Society
P N Collins and S L Inder

v

John Llewellyn Stanley
C Gwilliam

Oral Leave Hearing
Judges Winkelmann CJ, Glazebrook and Williams JJ JJ     
Case Summary                                                                                     Civil Appeal – Whether the Court of Appeal erred in determining whether the Applicant was a fit and proper person to be admitted as a barrister and solicitor of the High Court of New Zealand, particularly in relation to the Applicant’s prior convictions.
Court of Appeal decision STANLEY v THE NEW ZEALAND LAW SOCIETY [2019] NZCA 119 [17 April 2019]
High Court decision STANLEY v NEW ZEALAND LAW SOCIETY [2018] NZHC 1154 [22 May 2018]

 

OCTOBER

1 October

Case  number                              SC 29/2019
Case name                                                                                             Vivien Judith Madsen-Ries and Henry David Levin as liquidators of Debut Homes Limited and Debut Homes Limited (in liquidation) v Leonard Wayne Cooper and Leonard Wayne Cooper and Tracey Cooper as trustees of the L & T Cooper Family Trust
Judges Winkelmann CJ, William Young ,Glazebrook, O'Regan and Ellen France JJ          

 

3 October

Case  number SC 25/2019
Case name                                  David Noel Roigard v The Queen
Judges  Winkelmann CJ, Glazebrook, O'Regan, Ellen France, and Williams JJ

 

10 October

Case  number                              SC 40/2019
Case name 127 Hobson Street Limited and Sunil Govind Parbhu v Honey Bees Preschool Limited and Jason James
Judges Winkelmann CJ,  O'Regan, Ellen France,Williams and Arnold JJ

 

30 October

Case  number                              SC 31/2019
Case name Kalana Yasassri Dayaratne v New Zealand Police
Judges Winkelmann CJ, William Young ,Glazebrook, O'Regan and Ellen France JJ          

 

NOVEMBER

11 - 14 November

Case  number                              SC 49/2019
Case name Peter Hugh McGregor Ellis v The Queen
Judges  Winkelmann CJ, Glazebrook, O'Regan, Williams and Arnold JJ