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Supreme Court of Canada — Application for Leave to Appeal and Appeal Statistics

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Appeals

Leaves to Appeal

Key Trends

Appeals Heard by Year

Leave Grant Rate (%)

Unanimous Rate (%)

Avg Months: Hearing to Judgment

Applications for Leave to Appeal

Leave Applications Filed by Year

Leave Decisions: Granted vs Dismissed

Leave Grant Rate (%) by Year

Leave Outcomes (in selected range)

Leave Timing (average months)

Avg Months: Leave Filing → Decision

Avg Months: Leave Decided → Appeal Hearing  sparse

Counts
Percentages

Appeals Heard

Total Appeals Heard by Year

By Type: By Leave vs As of Right

Hearing Days by Year

Appeal Judgments

Judgments Rendered by Year

From Bench vs Reserved by Year

Appeal Outcomes

Allowed vs Dismissed by Year

Allow Rate (%) by Year

Unanimous vs Split by Year

Unanimous Rate (%) by Year

Time Lapses (average months)

Leave Filed → Leave Decided

Leave Decided → Appeal Hearing  sparse

Appeal Hearing → Appeal Judgment

Initial Filing → Final Judgment  sparse

Where Cases Come From

Cases by Province / Territory and Year (stacked)

Total Cases by Province / Territory

Route Into the Court

Court of Origin

Subject Matter

Civil vs Criminal by Year

Criminal Share (%) by Year

Note: Civil vs criminal is derived from the database's subject-area coding, which is thorough for older years but thins out after ~2015. A more detailed subject breakdown can be added once recent coding improves.

Full Statistical Summary by Year

Appeal Judgments

DateCase NameCitationProv. OutcomeDecisionDelivery

Dashboard Notes

Data Quality & Freshness

The database is updated weekly through a combination of automatic and manual processes for verification. While we make best efforts, these processes inevitably produce some inaccuracies and incompleteness. Always verify critical information against official sources.

SCC's Statistical Summaries

The SCC provides its own statistical summaries along with its Year in Review.

https://www.scc-csc.ca/about-apropos/work-travail/review-retro/

Inconsistencies between this site and the SCC's summaries are often a result of how appeals involving multiple docket numbers or multiple court of appeal judgments are counted.

Sources

The database was primarily produced from our own collection of information from the Supreme Court of Canada and CanLII websites. Data regarding appeal judgments was augmented or verified against the following datasets:

Paul-Erik Veel, Katie Glowach, Benjamin Alarie, and Andrew Green, Lenczner Slaght Supreme Court of Canada Database, Release 2026.01. Available at: https://www.supremecourtdatabase.com/

Sean Rehaag & Simon Wallace, "A2AJ Canadian Legal Data" (2025), online: GitHub https://github.com/a2aj-ca/canadian-legal-data

For another look at SCC data, see Kevin Zhang's "A Mapping of Canadian Jurisprudence", https://scc-decisions-dashboard-305038635330.us-west1.run.app/.

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