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.
12 December 2025
Case information summary 2025 (as at 18 December 2025) – Cases where leave granted (PDF, 87 KB)
Case information summary 2025 (as at 18 December 2025) – Cases where leave to appeal decision not yet made (PDF, 121 KB)
All years
B The applicant must pay costs of $2,500 to each of the first and second respondents.
1 August 2024
B The application for a stay of enforcement of the injunction pending determination of the appeal is dismissed.
C There is no order as to costs.
12 September 2024
B The applicant must pay the respondent costs of $2,500.
1 August 2024
Criminal Appeal
A Leave to appeal is granted (Tamati v R [2024] NZCA 113).
B The approved questions are as follows:
(a) whether errors by trial counsel may have occasioned a miscarriage of justice; and
(b) whether in the circumstances a reliability warning was required.
2 August 2024
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The appeal is dismissed.
03 July 2025
- Hearing date 25 February 2025 Appellant submissions (PDF, 2.6 MB)
- Hearing date 25 February 2025 Respondent submissions (PDF, 571 KB)
- Hearing date 25 February 2025 Transcript (PDF, 402 KB)
- Hearing date 25 February 2025 Case Synopsis (PDF, 474 KB)
- MR [2025] NZSC 70 (PDF, 286 KB)
- SC 48/2024 Tristan Lee Tamati v The King (Recorded, 25 February 2025)
B The approved question is whether the Court of Appeal was correct to hold that there was no duty of care owed by the respondent to the appellants while carrying out and making statements in relation to pool inspections under the Fencing of Swimming Pools Act 1987.
20 August 2024
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A notice of abandonment having been filed, the appeal is abandoned.
06 March 2025
- Hearing date 11_12 March 2025 (PDF, 369 KB)
B The application for leave to appeal is dismissed.
C The applicant must pay the second respondent costs of $2,500.
13 September 2024
B The applicants must pay the respondent one set of costs of $2,500.
27 August 2024
B The applicants must pay the respondents costs of $2,500.
5 August 2024
B There is no order as to costs.
5 August 2024
B There is no order as to costs.
1 October 2024