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Statistical summary 2016 to 2025

2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025
Cases filed
Complete applications for leave to appeal 577 526 531 534 481 492 486 523 526 517
Notices of appeal as of right 15 17 26 25 25 21 23 10 17 18
Applications for leave
Submitted to the Court 598 492 484 552 483 430 451 563 534 474
Granted (pending) 50 50 42 36 34 34 31 34 35 (1) 35 (1)
Percentage granted 8 10 9 7 7 8 7 6 7 7 1
Appeals heard
Total number 63 66 66 69 41 58 52 49 39 51
As of right 15 17 21 24 19 26 19 15 11 17
By leave 48 49 45 45 22 32 33 34 28 34
Hearing days 53 60 59 58 35 58 48 46 40 55
Appeal judgments
Total number 57 67 64 72 45 59 53 36 50 46
Delivered from the bench 13 19 20 25 17 22 17 10 8 16
Delivered after being reserved 44 48 44 47 28 37 36 26 42 30
Allowed 29 28 33 39 24 22 20 18 20 17
Dismissed 28 39 31 33 21 37 33 18 30 29
Unanimous 35 36 31 30 22 27 29 21 19 20
Split 22 31 33 42 23 32 24 15 31 26
Percentage of unanimous judgments 61 54 48 42 49 46 55 58 38 43
Appeals standing for judgment at the end of each year 24 25 25 26 20 21 16 30 19 24
Average time lapses (in months)
Between filing of application for leave and decision on application for leave 4.1 4.0 5.8 4.3 3.6 3.0 3.9 4.6 4.3 4.4
Between date leave granted (or date notice of appeal as of right filed) and hearing 7.5 7.4 6.7 6.3 8.6 8.2 8.6 9.9 9.4 9.1
Between hearing and judgment 4.8 4.6 4.8 5.3 5.4 4.2 4.6 5.5 6.3 5.1

All applications for leave, appeals and judgments are counted by individual file number.

As at March 24, 2026

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Date modified: 2026-03-31