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.

3 July 2026

Case information summary (as at 3 July 2026) –  Cases where leave granted (PDF, 88 KB)
Case information summary (as at 3 July 2026)  – Cases where leave to appeal decision not yet made (PDF, 127 KB) 

All years

Case name
M & F v The Queen
Case number
SC 32/2005
Summary
Whether the applicant should be permitted to make an application for leave for direct appeal from the High Court to the Supreme Court out of time - whether the Court of Appeal wrongly held in an application for leave to appeal similar to that of the applicant that the Court had no jurisdiction to hear the appeal under s 379A (1)(aa) of the Crimes Act 1961 because, in substance, the application did not involve a challenge to the admissibility of evidence - whether the High Court judge erred in ruling certain evidence admissible despite the applicant's submission that the quality of the evidence had been affected by the way in which it was obtained - whether the High Court judge erred in refusing to grant severance and in determining the degree of evidence as to collusion or contamination required before severance will be granted. CRI 2003 009 012476, 11 March 2005
Result
Leave to appeal dismissed.
27 July 2005
Leave judgment - leave dismissed
M and F V R SC 30 & 32/2005 [27 July 2005] (PDF, 19 KB)
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