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.
28 November 2025
Case information summary 2025 (as at 28 November 2025) – Cases where leave granted (PDF, 87 KB)
Case information summary 2025 (as at 28 November 2025) – Cases where leave to appeal decision not yet made (PDF, 120 KB)
2023
B The approved question is whether the Court of Appeal was correct in its interpretation of s 64(1) of the Prisoners’ and Victims’ Claims Act 2005 which suspends the limitation period for a victim of an offence making a claim under that Act while the offender is “serving a sentence of imprisonment” and, in particular, in concluding that time spent in pre-sentence detention counts to extend the period of suspension.
4 May 2023
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A The appeal is allowed.
B The award of $5,000 to the respondent made by the Victims’ Special Claims Tribunal is set aside.
6 November 2023
- Hearing date 18 July 2023 Appellant's Submissions (PDF, 268 KB)
- Hearing date 18 July 2023 Secretary for Justice's Submissions (PDF, 1021 KB)
- Hearing date 18 July 2023 Joint Chronology (PDF, 68 KB)
- Hearing date 18 July Transcript (PDF, 449 KB)
- Hearing date 18 July 2023 SC 21_2023 (PDF, 310 KB)
- MR [2023] NZSC 148 (PDF, 396 KB)
- Joshua Pera Van Silfhout v Udaya Lakshman Agas Pathirannehelage (Recorded, 18 July 2023)