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.

19 June 2026

Case information summary (as at 19 June 2026) –  Cases where leave granted (PDF, 89 KB)
Case information summary (as at 19 June 2026)  – Cases where leave to appeal decision not yet made (PDF, 126 KB) 

All years

Case name
David John Young v Land Transport Safety Authority
Case number
SC 33/2005
Summary
Criminal appeal - appeal against the decision of the High Court - leave to appeal refused by the Court of Appeal - whether defence of self-defence correctly applied to facts. CRI 2004 409 000196, 29 November 2004
Result
Leave to appeal dismissed. 27 July 2005
Leave judgment - leave dismissed
YOUNG V LAND TRANSPORT SAFETY AUTHORITY SC 33/2005 [27 July 2005] (PDF, 16 KB)
Judgment appealed from

DJ YOUNG V LAND TRANSPORT SAFETY AUTHORITY CA CA78/05 19 May 2005
Case name
David Fruean v The Queen
Case number
SC 43/2005
Summary
Criminal Law - “ whether a comment by a trial judge describing portions of an out of court statement as "self-serving" during evidence, necessitates a jury direction that "the whole of a mixed out of court statement is evidence of the facts stated". CA 73/05 22 June 2005
Result
Leave to appeal dismissed. 7 September 2005
Leave judgment - leave dismissed
FRUEAN V R SC 43/2005 [7 September 2005] (PDF, 16 KB)
Case name
Colyn David Stoves v The Queen
Case number
SC 44/2005
Summary
Criminal appeal - whether the Court of Appeal erred in failing to give sufficient weight to the delay between conviction and sentencing in assessing the applicant’s appeal against sentence - whether the Court of Appeal wrongly concluded that the Crown was not obliged to make an application under s 344A of the Crimes Act when advised that the admissibility of certain evidence was to be challenged by the applicant . CA 457/04 24 May 2005
Result
Leave to appeal dismissed. 22 September 2005
Leave judgment - leave dismissed
STOVES V R SC 44/2005 [22 September 2005] (PDF, 15 KB)
Judgment appealed from

STOVES v R [2005] NZCA 119 (24 May 2005)
Case name
Otago Station Estates Limited v John Robert Parker; and David John Parker and Lorraine Maree Parker.
Case number
SC CIV 6/2004
Summary
Civil appeal - method of payment of a deposit in a conveyancing transaction where notice of intention to cancel for non-payment of deposit has been given - whether payment in law requires legal tender or whether tendering a personal cheque is sufficient. CA 158/03 10 June 2004
Result
Leave to appeal granted.
12 October 2004
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The appeal is dismissed. Costs in favour of the respondents are to be fixed following receipt of memoranda of counsel.
19 April 2005
Transcripts
Leave judgment - leave granted
OTAGO STATION ESTATES LTD V JOHN ROBERT PARKER And Anor SC SC CIV 6/2004 [12 October 2004] (PDF, 12 KB)
Substantive judgment
OTAGO STATION ESTATES LIMITED V PARKER And Anor SC SC CIV 6/2004 [19 April 2005] (PDF, 59 KB)
Supreme court decision
costs: OTAGO STATION ESTATES LIMITED V PARKER And Anor SC CIV 6/2004 [16 June 2005] (PDF, 13 KB)
Judgment appealed from

OTAGO STATION ESTATES LIMITED V JOHN ROBERT PARKER And Anor CA CA158/03 10 June 2004
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